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Recent trends show why SEO should always be the cornerstone of your WordPress traffic acquisition strategy. Everyone wants traffic, and there was a time when one of the best ways to grow it was through social media. However, that particular party may be over. Twitter accounts for less than 2.5 percent of traffic to publishers, …

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8 May 2018

Using the WordPress Desktop App with Self-hosted WordPress – A Review

There are many tools to help you take care of your WordPress website. We have talked about some of them in the past in this post. Aside from them, there are also the official WordPress mobile apps. Although it has been around for a while, a lesser-known example is the WordPress desktop app named Calypso. …

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4 May 2018

Instagram Insights to Enhance Your Web Design Acceptance and Reach

Instagram is admired worldwide as being synonymous with online imagery. It was a fresh new concept in social networking when it was introduced, and it also changed the way businesses approach the internet, and in turn their target audience. This innovative image-based social network platform has shared many valuable lessons regarding how companies need to …

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3 May 2018

Using WordPress To Create Awesome Promo Code Websites

Even though it’s one of the most popular platforms on the web, there are still a lot of people who are unsure about using WordPress. For some, it’s because they feel intimidated by the prospect of using it, while others simply think that it wouldn’t fulfill what they are trying to achieve. For those who …

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2 May 2018

Code Review Part 3 – Building & Refactoring the Posts Generator

In the last article, I walked you through a code review and refactoring process for the FilterWPQuery class in Josh Pollock’s plugin. We made his class more readable and performant. But we did not cover the posts generator code in the getPosts() method; rather, I left that review for this article. Why? There are two reasons. First, …

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30 Apr 2018

A Simple Guide to WordPress Starter Themes

Starting completely from scratch when developing themes naturally means that you are free to do anything you’d like. This opens up plenty of room for creative freedom, but getting started can take up a lot of time. Many of the initial tasks you’ll carry out are necessary, yet time-intensive. The good news is that WordPress …

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26 Apr 2018

Is That Plugin Reliable? How to Test WordPress Plugins

There are over 50,000 plugins in the official directory, with new ones added daily. Having so many alternatives is a great thing indeed, but the dilemma is which one to choose when you find several solutions serving the same purpose. How do you know what’s the best choice for your site? You don’t. You just …

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25 Apr 2018

Code Review Part 2: Improving Readability and Performance of the FilterWPQuery Class

In the last article, I walked you through the problem of letting “no go” conditions flow through your code. I showed you how to refactor the code to solve the problem and make the code more readable. In this article, you and I will continue doing a code review and refactoring of the FilterWPQuery in Josh …

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23 Apr 2018

Improving Native WordPress Search

If you have ever worked on a WordPress site with a massive amount of posts and pages, you might have noticed something about the WordPress search: it doesn’t perform well. In this article, we dive into why the default WordPress search doesn’t scale and some ways to make it better. How WordPress Searches By default, …

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20 Apr 2018

How to make your WordPress Posts go Viral

An awesome blog is a sure-fire way to bring attention to what you’re doing, share your experience and expertise with others, and, of course, make a living. All these goals cannot be reached unless your posts are super popular. Getting the word out is the biggest challenge every beginner blogger faces, and often it becomes …

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16 Apr 2018

3 Revenue Streams for First-Time Freelance Developers

Beginning your journey as a freelance developer can feel like one small step for man, and one giant pain when trying to find work. You’ll want to find prosperous areas in which to apply your trade, but you’ll often encounter saturated markets that require hard work if you want to be successful. Finding a profitable …

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13 Apr 2018

Code Review Part 1: Fixing Design Flaw with the “Return Early” Strategy

While reading Josh Pollock’s first article in his Advanced OOP for WordPress series, I noticed opportunities to improve his code’s quality and performance. So I reached out to him. As a fellow educator, he suggested that I do a code review and then publish my insights in a series of articles here on Torque as …

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The Decline of Social Traffic and the SEO Renaissance

Using the WordPress Desktop App with Self-hosted WordPress – A Review

Instagram Insights to Enhance Your Web Design Acceptance and Reach

Using WordPress To Create Awesome Promo Code Websites

Code Review Part 3 – Building & Refactoring the Posts Generator

A Simple Guide to WordPress Starter Themes

Is That Plugin Reliable? How to Test WordPress Plugins

Code Review Part 2: Improving Readability and Performance of the FilterWPQuery Class

Improving Native WordPress Search

How to make your WordPress Posts go Viral

3 Revenue Streams for First-Time Freelance Developers

Code Review Part 1: Fixing Design Flaw with the “Return Early” Strategy