Beginning your journey as a freelance developer can feel like one small step for man, and one giant pain when trying to find work. You’ll want to find prosperous areas in which to apply your trade, but you’ll often encounter saturated markets that require hard work if you want to be successful. Finding a profitable and fun niche, therefore, is often a tough task. Putting in time upfront to settle on one or more suitable revenue streams will pay off over the long term. Although you can always fall back on the classic WordPress development projects, finding a specific area […]
Code Review Part 1: Fixing Design Flaw with the “Return Early” Strategy
While reading Josh Pollock’s first article in his Advanced OOP for WordPress series, I noticed opportunities to improve his code’s quality and performance. So I reached out to him. As a fellow educator, he suggested that I do a code review and then publish my insights in a series of articles here on Torque as a companion to his series. In this Code Quality Review series, I will present one or more code quality opportunities and provide details and insights to help you improve your code. Let’s start with the posts_pre_query method in his FilterWPQuery class: <?php class FilterWPQuery { […]
Why You Need to Consider SEO For Your WordPress Business
More often than not, if someone wants to find a new product or service, they begin with a Google search. Getting your WordPress site to the top of Google is a huge advantage over other sites and can bring in more traffic and potential customers. To do that, you’ll need to have great SEO. Traditionally, getting a business noticed is hard work. You have to advertise for youself in varying markets, hoping the right people notice your site. This can take a lot of time and energy. Most people looking for a new business will go straight to Google. Making […]
The 8 WordPress Plugins That Will Change the Way Your WordPress Site Looks and Performs
The world of CMS has only one king – WordPress. Even the king needs his hands to rule over his domain of 2 million websites, and in this case, the king’s hands are the plugins. Each year WordPress comes up with thousands of new plugins for the users, developers, digital marketers, online entrepreneurs and website designers. Since most plugins in the directory are free, it is quite easy to update their versions from time to time and even switch to a new plugin now and then. However, most developers and marketers remain too busy to pay attention to a perfectly […]
Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 2: Setting Up Automated Testing Of WordPress REST API Plugins
In my last post, I showed how to modify the WordPress content endpoints using WordPress hooks — aka the WordPress plugins API — during REST API requests. The practical example changed the underlying query to improve search. Now I need to test that code isolated from the WordPress plugins API. For this article, we will assume the Plugins API is working as documented. This, however, isn’t a safe assumption, so we need to be ready if it isn’t working as planned. This post is really about how we can control for that problem. I’ll be walking you through setting up […]

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