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Plugged in: adding forum functionality with bbPress

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March 17, 2015

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“Plugged in” is a reoccurring feature on Torque that aims to take a closer look at different plugins each week. If you have any suggestions for plugins you’d like to see reviewed, write us at [email protected]. Looking to build real, long-term success for your website? Then you need to cultivate a core of highly engaged, loyal followers. Remember: it’s not your one-off visitors that lay sustainable foundations for your website, but your biggest fans. These are the people who visit regularly, buy your stuff, and spread the word on social media. So how do you build this loyal following? Great content is, […]

This week in WordPress: March 16, 2015

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March 16, 2015

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Just in case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest happenings from this past week. If you have a news tip you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. WordPress 4.2 Beta 1: WordPress 4.2 Beta 1 was released. The software is still being tested, but you can set up a testing site and try out some of its fun new features. Blind SQL Injection vulnerability was discovered in WordPress SEO by Yoast: A vulnerability was discovered in the popular WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin. An update was released, and users of the plugin were advised to update immediately. WordPress 80/20 Problem: Josh […]

Which WordPress management software should you use?

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March 16, 2015

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Managing multiple WordPress sites is a hassle. There are the regular maintenance tasks you need to take care of, such as updates, backups, and security, in addition to publishing content and moderating comments. The difficult way to manage your sites would be to log in to each site’s dashboard and handle these tasks one at a time. But it is time consuming. That’s why it’s important to use WordPress management software. It makes the task of managing and maintaining multiple WordPress sites simple and fast. Here are 6 of the best WordPress management software currently available. 1. ManageWP ManageWP contains the basic […]

An in-depth guide on how to integrate Mailchimp into WordPress

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March 13, 2015

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We have all heard it before: “The money is in the list.” Building a thriving list of email subscribers is one of the cornerstones of a successful website. Despite being a slightly older form of digital communication, it remains one of the most important ways of staying in touch with your audience. Forking over your email address is a huge sign of trust from the side of your visitor. It gives you direct access to their inbox, a coveted sanctuary for most, making it likely they will actually read what you send them and come back to your site. It’s no […]

DradCast Episode 076: WordPress Preacher

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March 12, 2015

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[y=n89ZbCmlELM height=400] Show notes: Mendel Kurland started his web career as a consultant for local businesses, and quickly found his way to corporate America as a developer, marketer, and inventor. Mendel is a GoDaddy Evangelist which allows him to spend his time hanging out with developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and web pros around the world and making sure their opinions and suggestions are heard. He is an outdoor enthusiast, who loves backpacking, camping, gourmet coffee, and prototyping new web apps. You can find Mendel on Twitter @ifyouwillit, or you can shoot him an email at [email protected]! Sippin’ on Brad – Grub Soda Dre – Water Mendel – […]

The WP Summit: An online conference for WordPressers

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March 12, 2015

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The WP Summit , a virtual conference aimed at educating WordPress users on how to build impactful sites, kicks off on Monday, March 16! The 10-day conference, hosted by online entrepreneur and WordPress developer Jan Koch, features interviews with 28 WordPress experts and online entrepreneurs on a range of different topics from WordPress fundamentals, to inbound marketing: Day 1: WordPress Fundamentals Day 2: Design and WordPress Themes Day 3: Online Business with WordPress Day 4: List Building Day 5: Content Marketing Day 6: Social Marketing / SEO Day 7: Podcasting / Summits Day 8: Copywriting / Conversion Optimization Day 9: Backups and Security […]

Defining the WordPress 80/20 problem

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March 11, 2015

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The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, states that “for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.” The 80/20 rule is named after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, and was popularized as a business tool in the book Living the 80/20 Way, by Richard Koch. This is one of the most useful principles for finding the most important things to focus on in business marketing and development. Identifying the 20% of your efforts that have the biggest impacts is a fundamental step in maximizing your efficiency in any pursuit. Most people with a freelance web […]

Plugged in: A Review of qTranslate X

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March 10, 2015

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“Plugged in” is a reoccurring feature on Torque that aims to take a closer look at different plugins each week. If you have any suggestions for plugins you’d like to see reviewed, write us at [email protected]. Let’s take a little trip down memory lane, shall we? My first ever article written for Torque was this one: 4 ways to turn WordPress into a multilingual website. As the name suggests, it describes how to display any WordPress site in more than one language. In the article I also mentioned a plugin which had been among my absolute favorites for a long time: qTranslate. […]

This week in WordPress: A weekly news roundup

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March 9, 2015

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Just in case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest happenings from this past week. If you have a news tip you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. W25K DMCA win: WordPress wins $25,00 from DMCA takedown abuser. Introducing the WordPress security whitepaper: WordPress published its WordPress security whitepaper, which includes analysis of WordPress core software development and security processes. On WordPress history: The first version of Siobhan McKeown’s book on WordPress history is finished. GoChat.US: Developers, this is what happens when you use every css scrolling and animation effect at the same time. Shop Plugins: Shop Plugins is a marketplace focused on eCommerce […]

A quick overview of HTTP/2: what it is, what to expect, and what it means for you

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March 9, 2015

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Things move incredibly quickly in the online world. Articles can become obsolete in under a year, and in many cases just a few short months. With this in mind, it’s really quite surprising that the internet’s underlying protocol, HTTP, has not been updated for over 15 years—a lifetime in internet terms. HTTP, the abbreviation for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is most familiarly used at the start of a website address: http://www.example.com. However, its real purpose is to control how your web browser communicates with the server of the website you’re visiting. Of course, websites have come a long way from the basic, […]

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