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Doc Pop News Drop: Automattic Acquires The Atavist

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Doc Pop

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News Drop

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July 3, 2018

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Doc’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. Are subscription based services the future for online publications? Automattic seems to think so, in fact they recently acquired Atavist, makers of a subscription based CMS software. In this week’s News Drop video we talk about that acquisition and what it means for The Atavist Magazine. We also talk about some WordPress plugin alternatives that offer membership levels. Love WordPress News but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is […]

What Does the WordPress Community Think of the Gutenberg Editor? – A Review Roundup

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Community, News

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July 3, 2018

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The Gutenberg editor is one of the biggest changes coming to WordPress. But how does the community feel about it? In this Gutenberg editor review roundup we will aim to find out. Since Matt Mullenweg revealed Gutenberg at WCEU 2017, a lot has been written about it. Here on Torque alone we have a number of articles on the topic: What’s Next for WordPress: Why the Future is Great with Gutenberg Getting Ahead of Gutenberg How The REST API And Gutenberg Work Together What the Future of WordPress Development Looks Like With Gutenberg How to Test Your Plugins With the […]

Could AWS Translate Open New Markets for Your Site?

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Doc Pop

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News, Videos

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July 2, 2018

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) released their Amazon Polly plugin, a text to speech tool, back in February. In June, they announced a huge new update which provides real time translation functionality to the Polly plugin. We attended the AWS Translate launch event at the Amazon Loft in San Francisco and managed to learn more about this powerful new tool. We chatted with Robin Dautricourt, Sr. Product Manager at Amazon Polly, Yoni Friedman, Sr. Product Manager at Amazon Translate, and Steven Word, Innovation Program Manager at WP Engine, about this powerful new WordPress plugin

How to Install WordPress on a Subdomain

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Community

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July 2, 2018

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The standard way of installing WordPress is to do so through your full domain – the regular address that leads to your home page. However, there are some situations where that isn’t the most optimal way of presenting your content or site. In those situations, you’ll want to turn to ‘subdomains’ instead. We’ll go into more detail later, but a subdomain essentially lets you add a second installation of WordPress on your server, and associate it with the same domain you’re already using. For example, you could use this technique to create a blog and connect it to your existing […]

Top Things To Try With WordPress For The Adventurous Designer

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Beginners

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June 29, 2018

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WordPress has become so ubiquitous as a web hosting and designing platform, that it can be difficult to get your site to stand out from the masses. In such cases, spicing things up a bit by experimenting can lead to some great results, such as increased ad traffic. For now, it’s safe to say that as far as standing out on WordPress goes, it might pay to be a little more adventurous. Now, it’s worth pointing out that being adventurous doesn’t mean you can just throw the rules right out the window. Rather, it’s mostly about breaking convention and trying out […]

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