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Registration for Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe is now open. The day-long event will take place before the conference in the Business Center of “Les Docks de Paris” — the same location as the conference — and will be held on Thursday, June 15 from 8:30 a.m – 5:30 p.m. “Unlike previous years, Contributor Day is going to happen the day before the conference, on Thursday, June 15th, 2017,” the official announcement said. Contributor Day is an opportunity for WordPressers to work alongside and learn from some of the best WordPress contributors in the community. In this setting, contributors can work within […]

We are excited to declare Smush Image Compression Torque’s 2017 Plugin Madness Champion! In the final championship round, Smush Image Compression defeated WordPress security plugin WordFence, making it Torque’s 2017 Plugin Madness Champion. Smush Image Compression’s journey to victory was not without challenges. Last year, the plugin made it to the exceptional 8 but was ultimately knocked out by powerhouse plugin WooCommerce. This year it faced off in some suspenseful matchups throughout the competition but held its own along the way. The plugin knocked out EWWW Image Optimizer in a nail-biting round 1 before going on to beat Autoptimize — optimization […]

The WordPress REST API is a really awesome way to get WordPress content in the JSON format so you can use it in a JavaScript-driven interface. Normally, this means that your page loads without any content included and then you make an AJAX request to the server for the content as JSON, and render it on the page. For a first page request, that is one extra request. As long as you’re on the server, why not get the content, as JSON, included in the response to the first request. In this post, I will discuss using the REST API’s […]