For your WordPress site to drive traffic, retain visitors, and increase conversions, its content needs to be engaging. Visual media can help with that. Unfortunately, high-quality images often mean large file sizes that can slow your loading times down. Of course, eliminating visual content from your site simply isn’t an option. However, there are techniques you can use to format and optimize images to increase site speed. In this post, we’ll explain how images affect the speed and performance of your WordPress site. Then we’ll provide you with three ways you can optimize them to decrease page loading times. Let’s […]
Consequences of Not Updating Your WordPress Website
Do you see update notifications on your WordPress dashboard and choose to ignore them? Did you know using outdated WordPress installations allows hackers to exploit your website? According to WordPress statistics, only 36% of users have the latest version installed (as of February 2020). Many website owners choose to defer installing updates to their WordPress website for several reasons. Some may feel updates come too frequently or they cause problems to their site. But not updating your website invites a world of trouble! So today, we decided to discuss the impact of using outdated software. We also understand the pain […]
How to Use Your Competitor’s Backlink Profile to Your Advantage
Increasing traffic as a means to generate more sales is a primary goal for most eCommerce retailers. As a result, considerable amounts of time, energy, and resources are invested in elevating search engine rankings. This pursuit is understandable, considering that Google search statistics show the engine processing over 3.5 billion queries daily. By employing an effective SEO strategy, sellers can attract a considerable number of those users and earn a significant amount of sales. Since search engine optimization is such a critical component to online success, ranking in the SERPs is also incredibly competitive. There are a wide variety of […]
Voting for Torque’s 2020 Plugin Madness Now Open
Let the madness begin! Voting for Torque’s 2020 Plugin Madness is now open. Modeled after the NCAA college basketball tournament March Madness, we use a bracket-based voting system to pit plugins against one another each week. This year we asked you to nominate your favorite plugins, and today we’re happy to kick things off with an impressive lineup of plugins. Head on over to pluginmadness.com to vote for your favorite plugins now. Vote for your favorite plugins here The voting schedule is as follows: March 2: Round 1 March 9: Round 2 March 16: Round 3 March 23: Round 4 March 30: Semi-finals April […]
A Quick Guide to Using WordPress Cron Tasks
There are a lot of tasks involved in properly maintaining your WordPress websites. Staying on top of them all can be time-consuming and tedious. This is particularly true when you’re tackling them manually. Fortunately, using the WP-Cron system, you can schedule tasks to occur at periodic fixed times, dates, or intervals. By automatically handling these responsibilities, you can free up your time to focus on other pertinent aspects of WordPress site maintenance. In this post, we’ll explain what WordPress cron tasks are and how they work. Then we’ll walk you through how to create and schedule events in four steps […]

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