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Simplicity of use has made WordPress the most popular CMS in the world. You can set up a beautiful-looking WordPress site by simply installing a theme, and achieve more complex features with the help of plugins. While this simplicity is a great advantage, if it isn’t used wisely, it can really work against you. A badly coded theme or too many plugins can slow down your site, and cause slow loading, a common problem for many WordPress users. So, in this article, you’ll learn what is potentially making your WordPress website slow and receive actionable tips for improving its load […]

If you are looking to purchase or invest in a website, you’ll need to do some background checks first. A site that looks good on the outside, may have some nasty surprises lurking in the code. Any web traffic or sales figures need to be analyzed and validated, and you’ll need to decide whether you’re the right person to take on the challenge of being a webmaster. Here is what you need to check up on when buying a website, and how to do it yourself. Background checks & motivators Why are they selling now? Seems obvious, but it’s an […]

In my last article for Torque, I wrote about why I think that for PHP code following the coding standards set by the PHP community make more sense than those set for WordPress core. These standards are based on serving the needs of an existing legacy code base, limited to language features that are 10 years old or later. When you start a new WordPress plugin, site, or app, there is no reason for you to make the same decision, when you’re circumstances are totally different. As a follow up to that article, I’d like to show you, technically how […]