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Growth Hacking WordPress – How to Take Your Site to The Next Level

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Nick Schäferhoff

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April 12, 2017

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Growth hacking is very prevalent in the world of startups, especially for companies in their early stages. In fact, for a while growth hacking was a buzzword like “content is king” in blogging. The term describes an approach to find ways to rapidly and efficiently grow a business. Since its main focus is building a user base the same principles can also be used to grow websites. Fortunately, WordPress and growth hacking go together like peanut butter and jelly. For that reason, in this article, we want to dive deeply into this topic. Below we will talk about what growth […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: A WordPress “Skill” for Amazon’s Alexa

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Doc Pop

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April 11, 2017

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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. This week we talk about Blog Helper, a cool Alexa app by Christopher Finke that allows you to interact with your WordPress site via voice commands. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop! Ever since it’s release, people have been creating weird and wonderful apps for Amazon’s Alexa device. But one of the newest Alexa apps might be of particular interest to WordPressers. Christopher Finke, an […]

Overcoming Challenges Adding The WordPress REST API To A Legacy Project

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Josh Pollock

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April 11, 2017

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It’s no secret that I am a fan of the WordPress REST API. I use it all the time on new projects, but adding REST API support to my main project — Caldera Forms — has been difficult. Modern WordPress development requires writing PHP code that allows for the same actions to be performed in response to a traditional admin/ front-end HTTP request, a REST API request or WP-CLI request, using the same internal PHP API. In the past, I don’t think following this philosophy mattered much. Settings were changed on admin pages and content was displayed on the front-end. […]

WordCamp Europe Announces First Batch of Speakers

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Emily Schiola

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April 11, 2017

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WordCamp Europe is just two months away and is slated to be the largest WordCamp to date. With anticipation building, WordCamp EU today announced its first batch of speakers: Yoav Farhi, Rian Rietveld, Adrian Roselli, Pirate Dunbar, and Julka Grodel. This year, speakers will be announced in waves leading up to the event. Today, the team released a group of speakers looking to make your site more accessible — touching on topics ranging from the REST API to PHP 7. “Right to Left Language Support – The Right Way!” This lightning talk by Automattician Yoav Farhi will deep dive into the basics of RTL support and show how […]

Take Your WordPress Site to the Next Level with These Four White Papers

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Emily Schiola

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April 10, 2017

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With more than 40k plugins in the WordPress repository alone, selecting plugins for your site may be daunting. We realize how challenging this can be, so in celebration of Torque’s Plugin Madness, we put together four white papers on plugins for site maintenance, optimization, editorial, and marketing. Download The Best Plugins For Site Maintenance Download The Best WordPress Plugins for Site Optimization Download The Best Editorial Plugins for WordPress Download The Best WordPress Plugins For Marketing The white papers highlight all 64 plugins that competed in this year’s plugin madness, each of which was nominated by the WordPress community. The plugins were […]

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