Every single business owner needs to have a website. Whether that’s how you sell your products or a blog where you connect to your audience. It’s important to have an online presence. That can be daunting for someone who doesn’t know very much about the Internet. However, WordPress is a great option for anyone just starting out or looking for somewhere to build an enterprise site. There’s a reason the CMS powers 30 percent of the web. This article will take you through the very basics of creating your first WordPress project and then growing it as your company grows. […]
Nominate Your Favorite Plugins for Plugin Madness 2019
Is there a WordPress plugin you can’t live without? An awesome tool that helps you promote your site or optimize images? Perhaps there’s an administrative plugin that’s saved you hours of work? Now is the time to say thanks! Torque’s Plugin Madness 2018 is taking nominations from now until March 1st. Nominate your favorite plugins by going to PluginMadness.com. Plugins will be divided into four categories: Marketing Maintenance Optimization eCommerce. We’ll take each of your top nominations and put them through a bracket-style competition throughout March until we’ve landed on the ultimate plugin! Voting in March is important, but if […]
Your USP: What it is and How to Make it Stand Out
Unique selling propositions, or USPs, are the way companies show how they are better than their competition. In the past, businesses would do this by advertising on television or the radio with the hope of convincing the viewer to choose them. In 2018, the majority of businesses are online. There is serious competition in this area, and companies are employing various SEO tactics to ensure that internet traffic is directed toward their website. However, if customers land on the website, first impressions are crucial. The web page has to instantly grab the users attention. In order to convey your competitive advantage over the […]
How to Test Usability of a Website Before Launch
Websites have become more important than ever as the Internet has continued to play an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. One of the biggest mistakes companies make when it comes to using a website is failing to conduct adequate usability tests before launching. Conducting tests to figure out where you’re having problems You can’t be sure that something works properly if you’ve never taken the time to test it out. Websites that allow visitors to make purchases on them can be especially complex. Due to the complexity, there are a lot of things that could potentially go wrong […]
Using the WP Queue to Copy REST API Data to Files
Recently Matt Shaw from Delicious Brains published a post about a new library they created to help in one of their products. This library WP_Queue provides a Laravel-like Job management system for WordPress. A job queue is a system that allows you to schedule jobs to run in the future. We tend to use jobs for two reasons. First, we may need to wait awhile, like if we want to schedule a follow-up email in a week. The other reason is performance. Maybe we need to do something computationally expensive and don’t want the user to wait. A job manager […]

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