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Applications Now Open for Day of REST Diversity Scholarship

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February 3, 2017

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The REST API had an amazing year in 2016. Not only was it used by notable websites including the Guggenheim, New York Times, and Wired, content endpoints were merged with core in 4.7. In March, developers from all over will gather in Boston to discuss and learn about the API in the second annual Day of REST. The conference, created by Human Made, consists of one day of talks with two days of workshops before and after. The REST API was created to make the Internet more open, and channeling that spirit, organizers are offering a diversity scholarship for the conference. […]

Build A Site With Me: How to Customize a Theme

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February 2, 2017

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I’ve written about WordPress for over a year now for Torque, but I’ve never built my own site. In fact, I would consider myself a beginner when it comes to creating something using the CMS. If you are also a beginner, build your site along with me. Last week, I wrote about how to install a theme, now I will go through the customization process. You have that beautiful theme, it’s time to make it look just the way you want it. Remember, you can always go back and modify your site. Customize your theme You went through the stressful […]

30 Real-life Examples of eCommerce Sites Built with WordPress

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February 1, 2017

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One of the benefits of WordPress is that you can use it to build pretty much any site you want. Portfolio websites, blogs, business websites, you name it. No wonder so many famous companies, celebrities, and brands rely on WordPress. Another area where WordPress excels is eCommerce. As we showed you in our WooCommerce beginner tutorial, building an online shop with WordPress is quick and painless. In fact, WooCommerce powers an estimated 42 percent of all eCommerce sites on the web. If that’s not impressive, I don’t know what is. Yet, if you have never built an online shop with […]

Creating Incentivized Optins With Easy Digital Downloads Discount Codes

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January 31, 2017

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A lot of WordPress plugins, including Easy Digital Downloads and WordPress SEO offer discount codes in exchange for allowing anonymous usage tracking. It’s a smart offer to make as the data is valuable. But, it’s also a great option for users of the plugin. This article is based on my experience setting up such a system for my plugin Caldera Forms. I will show you how I set up Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) on our site to dynamically generate the discount codes. I will also show how I set up the emails that provide the codes. This should be a […]

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