This week, Gabe Mays, head of the WordPress initiative at GoDaddy took over ManageWP’s AMA. While serving as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, Mays learned the ins and outs of WordPress from a tent in Afghanistan with limited internet connectivity on an old $300 duct-taped laptop. While creating a startup, Mays met Jeff King, SVP of Hosting at GoDaddy through connections in the startup world. Mays was skeptical of GoDaddy’s entrance to WordPress until he met the new leadership team who simply “got it.” After performing a product demo for them, he stayed in contact for the next […]
What is Schema Markup And How Do You Add It to WordPress?
Anyone who is serious about their website wants to rank high in search engines. It’s the reason we publish a lot of SEO articles here on Torque. To achieve this, two factors are most important: relevance and authority. You can demonstrate them to search engines by writing content for both users and search engines as well as getting your technical SEO up to snuff. Using the right keywords doesn’t hurt either. For human visitors, the relevance of your content is especially important. That’s why in this article we want to talk about an underused way to increase it: Schema markup. If […]
WordPress 4.7 “Vaughan” Has Finally Arrived
As promised in the State of the Word, WordPress 4.7 dropped yesterday. The update, named after American Jazz Singer Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan, features a new default theme, the REST API content endpoints, and more. TwentySeventeen The newest default theme is designed specifically for businesses. The idea is for anyone with a business to be able to plug content in and go. It is easy to make this theme look good without much knowledge of code or design. REST API Content Endpoints The fate of the REST API has been in question since it was rejected from a merge in 4.5 and then […]
How To Start A News Site With WordPress
Starting a news site can be a great way to reach a new fan base and bring a lot of information to a large group of people. WordPress is the perfect place to host that site. We’ll take you through how to set up your site. Starting a news site with WordPress begins with installing it on a server capable of handling the high levels of traffic news sites tend to receive. If you’re starting with a small budget, use a shared hosting server from a reliable host such as SiteGround, InMotion Hosting, or A2 Hosting. If you plan on growing quickly […]
Video Interviews With Incredible WordPressers At WordCamp US 2016
WordCamp US was held over the weekend at the Philadelphia Convention Center in downtown Philly. The two-day event brought in attendees from all over the world and was chock-full of impressive sessions. Throughout the weekend, we were lucky enough to interview some of the attendees and speakers to talk about their WordCamp experiences. In this article, we’ve shared a few of our favorites, but you can see the full set of interviews here. Joost de Valk Joost de Valk is the founder and CEO of Yoast. Erica Varlese Erica Varlese is a happiness engineer at Automattic. Lisa Melegari Lisa Melegari is a […]

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