Translating a website is not a small task. Depending on the size of the site, the process can take anywhere from hours to weeks or even months. That’s without factoring in the technical aspects of translation, such as how to guide users to translated pages. Fortunately, with WordPress, translating websites is much simpler from a technical standpoint. That’s because translation plugins for WordPress enable you to easily create new versions of your site in other languages. Plus, most plugins will take care of technical elements like language switchers. In this article, we’ll discuss how translation plugins work and why you […]
Gutenberg Block Editor Review (By a WordPress Power User)
In this post, I will review the WordPress block editor, that has found its way into the platform as part of the Gutenberg project. It has been around for four years and was one of the most controversial changes to ever happen to WordPress. Now that it has had time to mature and because it is a topic laden with such emotions, I thought it would be a good idea for me to weigh in. As a professional WordPress blogger, I spend all day every day not only writing in WordPress but also testing every aspect of the platform over […]
Torque Social Hour: Talking WordPress 6.2 with Aurooba Ahmed
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode, we talked with Aurooba Ahmed, a Software Developer specializing in WordPress and the co-host of the viewSource podcast. We talked about what’s Style Books and other new features in WordPress 6.2. We also talked about the lessons Aurooba has learned will doing her daily podcast project. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.
Press This: How TrustedLogin Improves the Support Experience
As an agency or plugin developer, there are many times when running customer support could be made so much easier if you had access to your customer’s dashboard. But there’s obviously a lot of concerning issues about asking for that sort of access and how it could be done. That’s why today we’re gonna be talking with Zack Katz.
How to Host Fonts Locally in WordPress (Classic & Block Themes!)
While using custom web fonts is a great way to make your site more unique and distinguish your branding, it can also come with certain problems — from privacy to performance. The solution: host your fonts locally on your WordPress website instead. To help you do so, in this post, we will tell you everything you need to know about this topic. Below, we discuss why it’s a good idea to host fonts locally in WordPress in the first place and then give you a rundown of code and no-code solutions to make it happen in both classic themes and […]

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