Doc Pop’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. In this week’s News Drop we have an in-depth conversation with Josh Pollock about React, Gutenberg, and his predictions for WordPress. Josh is the founder/lead-developer at Caldera Forms and a regular Torque contributor.
Why Every Business Needs a WordPress Site
The Internet gives companies and individuals access to people they would not reach otherwise, even letting them reach out to people in different states and countries around the world. It also gives a sense of authority, whether you are an individual who is trying to build a portfolio or offering a service online or a company that is trying to attract potential customers to their website. This is just one of the many reasons that you should create a website. For some companies, the idea of creating a website is intimidating. Many people associate websites with complex design, a need […]
3 Ways to Make the Most Out of a HubSpot/WordPress Integration
If you’ve made the decision to boost your marketing efforts by adding HubSpot to your WordPress site, you have taken the first step to improving your organization’s marketing capabilities. After you’ve installed the plugin, which adds HubSpot tracking code to your WordPress site and creates subscribers from non-HubSpot forms on your site, it’s time to put the right foundation in place for long-term success. Below are three key ways to make the most out of a HubSpot WordPress integration. Leverage calls to action HubSpot enables a level of agility and specificity that isn’t available on WordPress alone. Call to actions […]
Best Wireframe & Prototype Tools for setting up a Website
Regardless of if you are an experienced project manager or a developer who just started out, prototyping remains the core of every project you take on. Prototyping is the procedure of developing a preliminary version of the final web product in order to see how everything will look before going live. Creating a prototype is a great way to go about the process of setting up a website because the developers get to have a clear picture of what might or might not go along with the end-product. Advantages of Prototyping: Builds a concept for the final web product Adherence […]
React Basics For WordPress Developers
In my last post for Torque, I wrote about how WordPress with the new Gutenberg editor uses React. I also gave my opinion on if WordPress developers need to learn React. While you do not need to know React to create Gutenberg blocks, I laid out a few reasons why it might make sense for you to do so. If those reasons made sense for you, good news, this is a post to get you started with React and its starting a new series of posts about using React for Gutenberg development. Before We Get Started In the first few […]

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