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Torque Social Hour: Be Your Own Social Aggregator

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Doc Pop

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News Drop, Videos

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January 20, 2023

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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Shawn Hooper and David Bisset about social media, owning your own content, and turning your WordPress site into an aggregator of your all your social networks. We start off talking about Shawn’s Twitter-Archive-To-WP tool. Then we discuss davidbisset.social, which was built with WordPress and shows a chronological version of all of David’s social media posts. I also mentioned a tool called Tweetgrab, which allows you to convert any existing Twitter embeds on your WordPress site into static images with properly formatted […]

Twenty Twenty-Three Theme Review: Flexible and Community Driven

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Community, Design, News

Published

January 18, 2023

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Every year, WordPress releases a new theme to serve as its default theme — the one that comes with every fresh WordPress installation. As we head into 2023, WordPress has released their latest theme offering into the world, Twenty Twenty-Three, which we will review here. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg introduced Twenty Twenty Three in his State of the Word address. This theme aims to be fast, lightweight, and accessible, with a focus on simplicity and easy customization. In other words, it’s the perfect blank canvas for your next WordPress project. But what sets it apart from previous years? An intense […]

How to Create a Paid Membership Site with WordPress (2 Ways)

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Will Morris

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Business

Published

January 17, 2023

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In the past, advertising and affiliate marketing were the best ways to monetize a website. However, these tactics can be time-consuming and disrupt the user experience (UX). As an alternative, you may want to create a membership site to earn income online. Still, you might now know where to begin. Fortunately, it’s easy to create a paid membership site with the right tools. Then, you can configure memberships in WordPress, restrict access to specific pages, and sell subscriptions. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at membership websites and how they work. Then, we’ll discuss what you need to […]

How to Add a Table of Contents in WordPress (3 Ways)

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Will Morris

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Design

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January 12, 2023

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If you publish long-form articles on your blog, you’ll want to provide a quick way for readers to navigate to different sections of the post. Creating a table of contents can help you achieve this, but you might not know how to get started. Fortunately, WordPress makes it easy to add tables of contents to your posts. For instance, you can use a dedicated plugin or create your tables manually in the Block Editor – no coding knowledge required! In this post, we’ll take a closer look at tables of contents and discuss the benefits of using them in your […]

Press This: WPGraphQL and Faust.js

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Doc Pop

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Community, Press This

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January 12, 2023

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On this episode of Press This, we’re talking about Headless WordPress, GraphQL, and Faust.js. How these tools can be used together and what sort of cost could be associated with Headless WordPress. We’re gonna kind of try to dive in deep with this, and I’ve got two great guests joining me today, I’ve got Jason Bahl, a principal software engineer at WP Engine based in Denver, Colorado, where he maintains WPGraphQL. And we’ve got Chris Wiegman, an engineering manager working on Faust.js.

How do you stay on top of your WordPress game?