While the WordPress dashboard is fairly easy to use (especially if you’re a professional developer), it would be great if you could handle basic daily site management on the front end. This would be particularly useful for helping clients maintain their websites long-term. Thanks to Beaver Builder’s new plugin, Assistant, this is now a possibility. The recently-announced open-source project offers a new way to manage many day-to-day WordPress tasks on the front end, as well as crucial collaborative features. In this post, we’ll introduce you to this new plugin and what it can do. Then we’ll discuss some reasons that […]
Virtual WordCamp Europe 2020 Kicks Off June 4
WordCamp Europe 2020 starts this weekend with Contributor Day on Thursday followed by talks on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are free and you can still register! The organizers have planned two full days of talks from community leaders such as Chris Lima, David Bisset, Miriam Schwab, and Matt Mullenweg. Talks cover a wide-range of topics and are geared toward all WordPress users from beginners to experts. Here are just a few we are looking forward to: Check out Headless WordPress with Luis Herranz and stay up to date on this exciting architecture. Pragmatic’s David Lockie will host a talk entitled […]
Torque Toons: The Famous Five Minute Install
We aren’t saying it still takes 5 minutes to install WordPress, but here are a few quick ways to kill some time.
How to Use Local (By Flywheel) for WordPress Development
Working with a local development environment makes a lot of things easier. We have written about this before, using XAMPP. In this post, we want to present you with an alternative: Local, formerly known as Local by Flywheel, and how to use it. Like other solutions, the program enables you to run WordPress on your computer instead of a server. It’s also free and very easy to use, making it more beginner friendly than more technical solutions. If you are looking for another way to work with WordPress locally, this tool might be the right thing for you. Let’s find […]
Torque’s Social Hour: WordPress’s 17th Birthday
Continuing our weekly series of live conversations, we hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Torque’s Social Hour. In this week’s episode we talk with Anthony Burchell and Chris Garret about WordPress’s 17th birthday, running WP on a Commodore 64, and Summit 2020. Doc also did a live rendition of the #WordPressStrong song. Be sure to catch next week’s episode live by subscribing here.

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