WordPress cybersecurity must be a top priority for all site administrators today. A secure WordPress site is crucial for protecting your own data as well as the data and privacy of your site’s visitors. In fact, poor security can even hurt your site’s search engine rankings and Google reputation. Luckily, strengthening your WordPress site’s cybersecurity starts with a few easy steps that anyone can use. Here’s an overview of the key risks facing WordPress sites and what you can do to defend against them. Common WordPress Cybersecurity Risks Cyber threats have been on the rise across the board over the […]
How to Create a WordPress Block Theme (In 3 Steps)
As a WordPress beginner, you may have avoided building custom themes in the recent past, thinking it required a complicated coding process. Now you can customize your entire website with Full Site Editing (FSE), but there’s still the issue of exporting your custom designs. Fortunately, you can easily create a block theme with the Create Block Theme plugin. After customizing your theme with the Site Editor, you can export it as a custom block theme. Then, you can install it on other websites instead of having to rebuild your design from scratch. In this post, we’ll explain what a block […]
Torque Social Hour: Using AI to Generate WordPress Images
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode I talk with Josh Dailey and Aaron Edwards, the founders of Infinite Uploads, about their new AI generative art tool for WordPress. Imajinn is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily generate images by adding a text prompt. It’s a fun tool to play with and really works well as a Gutenberg plugin. During this episode we got to see plenty of demos of the plugin in action, plus hear about some more features in the works. Be sure to check out Jeff […]
Web3 and WordPress: What to Expect From the Future (+Plugins)
Web3 is a buzzword that you can hear on many corners of the Internet these days, including the WordPress sphere. Rumor has it that it will upend how we do business on the and change the Internet itself. Since WordPress is an integral part of the web (*cough* 40+% market share *cough*). Therefore, the question is less if and more how it will impact our favorite CMS. There was even a talk on this very topic by Dave Lockie at WCEU 2022. To prepare for how Web3 will impact WordPress and to get ready for it in general, we will […]
Register Now for WordPress Accessibility Day
Registration is still open for WordPress Accessibility Day 2022. The 24-hour global event begins on Nov. 2 at 14:45 UTC and is completely free to attend. The event was originally started by the Website Core Accessibility Team back in 2020 and this year volunteers took over organizing. According to the website, “Our mission is to demystify website accessibility for WordPress developers, designers, content creators, and users so that they can more easily build websites that work for everyone, regardless of ability.” There will be 24 hours of content from 20 speakers. 40 percent of presentations include a speaker with a […]

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