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5 Essential WordPress Plugins to Help Grow Your Readership

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October 12, 2017

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  Every website owner is always looking to get more site visitors. Most site owners publish content regularly and think that it will automatically attract a new audience. They hope that an industry influencer will discover and mention the content they publish. They pray that the Goddess of Search Engines will reward their sites with a high ranking and many visitors. The issue with this passive approach is that it doesn’t work in today’s fiercely competitive content ecosystem anymore — unless a few blog posts go viral, the chances of attracting new eyeballs are slim to none. Growing readership is not […]

Using Pimple as a Service Container in WordPress Development

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October 12, 2017

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In my last article for Torque, I talked about the advantages of using a container in your WordPress plugin or app. I walked through the process of designing a container from scratch to manage three classes Twitter – Feed, Account, and Client. This week I’m going to go over very similar concepts, but I will talk more about structuring a plugin around the container. Also, we will use Pimple – an excellent, and fairly standard composer package — for the container instead of rolling our own. A Look At What We Are Improving Here is where we left off last […]

10 Massive Online Publications Powered By WordPress

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October 11, 2017

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WordPress began as a blogging platform and even though it has now grown to power some of the biggest Enterprise websites, it hasn’t forgotten its roots. These ten massive online publications trust the CMS to publish breaking news, in-depth features, celebrity interviews, and more. Fortune One of the biggest business magazines out there uses WordPress to deliver everything from stock reports to investigative pieces on the economy. New York Times The New York Times, known for decades of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism is run on WordPress. Reuters US Specializing in international and political news, Reuters U.S., trusts the CMS to support […]

Should You Add Push Notifications to Your WordPress Website?

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October 10, 2017

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Today we are talking about a topic that, frankly, I am a bit on the fence about: web push notifications. Why am I skeptical? Well, to be honest at least on my phone I switch them off as much as I can and rarely enable them inside apps. For that reason, if a website asks to send me push notifications (as happens more frequently lately), I am immediately taken aback. For me, that comes close to a site that has popup overload. However, push notifications are definitely making a push (see what I did there?) around the web. Some big […]

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