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Press This: AI-to-Code, Building WordPress Plugins with ChatGPT

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Doc Pop

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Community, Press This

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January 26, 2023

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Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Each episode features guests from around the community and discussions of the largest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. Powered by RedCircle Doc Pop: You’re listening to Press This, a WordPress Community Podcast on WMR. Each week we spotlight members of the WordPress community. I’m your host, Doc Pop. I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and my contributions over on TorqueMag.Io where I get to do podcasts and draw cartoons and tutorial videos. Check that out. You can […]

Top 5 Blogging Trends of 2023 You Definitely Shouldn’t Ignore

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Design, Development

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January 25, 2023

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What new trends can we expect to emerge in blogging in 2023? While blog writing has been around for a long time, and its basic premise doesn’t change much (put words on screen, publish), it does go through developments and fads. Some of them come and go, others stick around for longer or become a permanent fixture of the medium. To make sure you stay up to date on what’s going on in the blogging game, in this post, we will examine five of the trends you can expect to encounter this year. Knowing this allows you to stay current […]

8 Best WordPress Gutenberg Blocks (And How to Use Them)

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January 24, 2023

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The Gutenberg editor has completely changed how we build websites and web pages with WordPress. It allows users to create content and layouts piece by piece and comes with many tools to do so. In this post, we want to look at some of the best blocks Gutenberg has to offer for that purpose. The WordPress editor is a complex piece of software. It’s easy to overlook some of the features of Gutenberg, including the many blocks it comes with. Consequently, there might be some that you have no idea exist but that could seriously improve your workflow and make […]

Torque Social Hour: Be Your Own Social Aggregator

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News Drop, Videos

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January 20, 2023

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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Shawn Hooper and David Bisset about social media, owning your own content, and turning your WordPress site into an aggregator of your all your social networks. We start off talking about Shawn’s Twitter-Archive-To-WP tool. Then we discuss davidbisset.social, which was built with WordPress and shows a chronological version of all of David’s social media posts. I also mentioned a tool called Tweetgrab, which allows you to convert any existing Twitter embeds on your WordPress site into static images with properly formatted […]

Twenty Twenty-Three Theme Review: Flexible and Community Driven

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Community, Design, News

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January 18, 2023

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Every year, WordPress releases a new theme to serve as its default theme — the one that comes with every fresh WordPress installation. As we head into 2023, WordPress has released their latest theme offering into the world, Twenty Twenty-Three, which we will review here. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg introduced Twenty Twenty Three in his State of the Word address. This theme aims to be fast, lightweight, and accessible, with a focus on simplicity and easy customization. In other words, it’s the perfect blank canvas for your next WordPress project. But what sets it apart from previous years? An intense […]

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