With everyone around the world self-isolating, it’s important to make sure your site is as optimized as possible. Now more than ever, you want people to come to the site and stick around. With WordPress, you can easily customize any aspect of your website, including the theme you use. However, tweaking its code directly can be risky, and you may lose your changes when you update it. Using a child theme, you run none of those risks. A child theme is basically a copy of its ‘parent’. You can set one up rather quickly and with this approach, you can […]
Torque News Drop: What is Next For Elementor?
The Torque News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. After winning our Plugin Madness competition for a second year in a row, we reached out to Ben Pines from Elementor about what to expect from the company in 2020.
The Beginner’s Guide to BracketSpace
As a WordPress developer, establishing a balance between efficiency and quality can sometimes be challenging. Creating products from scratch – whether they be themes, plugins, or entire websites or apps – can become tedious and time-consuming. However, you don’t have to sacrifice coding standards to streamline your workflow. Incorporating reusable libraries and open-source repositories such as those offered by BracketSpace can help reduce development time while also making it easier to produce modular code. In this post, we’ll explain what BracketSpace is. Then we’ll explain how its library of reusable code, including five specific micropackages, can benefit your WordPress development […]
Torque’s Social Hour: April 15th with Chris Garret
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 about our predictions for WordPress in 2020 and our special guest, Chris Garrett, tells us about how he is using headless WordPress to connect his Commodore 64 to the internet. Be sure to catch next week’s episode live by subscribing here. Our special guest will be Justin Channell from Sucuri!
DDoS Attacks Explained: What You Need to Know to Prevent Them
Every growing website needs to be aware of DDoS attacks, and other common threats that can quickly take down an unprotected server. They can be devastating if you don’t know what’s going on or how to deal with it. In this day and age, anyone who knows where to look can purchase DDoS services. As you become more prominent in your field, someone may use them to damage your sales or reputation. However, with the right precautions, DDoS attacks can be prevented — or stopped in their tracks. What are DDoS Attacks? A DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack is a sudden […]

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