As the saying goes, “you reap what you sow”– the more you dedicate yourself to mastering a craft, the more you get out of it. Such is the case for building, maintaining, and diversifying your site’s traffic. In many ways, generating web traffic is like growing and tending a garden. If you’re new to it, you’ll need to invest a significant amount of time and resources into learning the craft. Even though there are many ways to grow your site, you only have a limited amount of resources. So you have to prioritize the right opportunities and strategies to add […]
Microinteractions in WordPress – How to Easily Add Them to Your Site
I recently talked about WordPress web design trends we can expect for 2018. On that list: microinteractions. If this word causes you to raise your eyebrow questioningly, microinteractions are a way to make websites more pleasant to work with. They do so by turning up the entertainment factor of otherwise mundane or tedious tasks in a subtle way. Oftentimes microinteractions are so small that you don’t really register them consciously. However, they are everywhere both on the web and in real life. For that and other reasons, in this post we will dive deep into how to introduce microinteractions to […]
Nominate Your Favorite Plugins for Plugin Madness 2018!
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 February 23rd. 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 […]
SFTP Explained: Secure File Transfer and Shell Access Basics
Most people use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to shuttle files and data between their computers and servers. However, although your security provisions may stretch to your live site, the data traveling via FTP will likely remain vulnerable. To enhance security, it is advisable to use both Secure Shell Access (SSH) and Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) in combination. This way, your data is safe from prying eyes and malicious usage. What’s more, it’s not tough to implement SSH and SFTP into your workflow. In this post, we’ll introduce both solutions and discuss why they’re necessary. Then we’ll talk about what […]
Torque Toons: Are You Ready For Some Updates?
While most folks are getting set up for Super Bowl Sunday, I’m getting ready for Monday’s WordPress 4.9.3 release.

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