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Plugin Madness: The Semi-Finalists Speak

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April 1, 2016

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Last month, we pit the 64 most popular WordPress plugins against each other in Torque’s 2016 Plugin Madness. We have witnessed several upsets along the way, and some of WordPress’s most beloved plugins, like SEO by Yoast, Akismet, and Jetpack by WordPress.com, have met defeat. We have received more than 15,000 votes so far, and, with only a few weeks left in the competition, it’s been narrowed to just four plugins — The Events Calendar, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields, and Wordfence Security. We reached out to our semi-finalists to see if they had any advice for creating successful plugins and […]

Four-Day ‘Week Of REST’ Bootcamp Planned For 2016

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March 31, 2016

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Human Made, the company behind A Day of REST, the first ever REST API conference, today announced A Week of REST, a residential developer bootcamp dedicated to the WordPress REST API. This four-day event will be focused entirely on learning how to build REST API-driven sites and applications. Geared towards WordPress developers, “this advanced bootcamp will teach you how to leverage the API, create your own API with custom endpoints, and display WordPress data in a frontend JavaScript application.” The inspiration for a longer, more in-depth REST API-focused event came from the feedback received from A Day of REST. “After a successful first conference dedicated […]

5 Takeaways From This Week’s AMA With Jeff Chandler

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March 31, 2016

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Jeff Chandler has been writing about software for eight years and is the founder of the popular WordPress publication, WP Tavern. This week he has taken over the ManageWP AMA. People came in with a lot of good questions regarding dealing with negativity online, Back to the Future, and the future of WP Tavern. Here are five takeaways. Chandler Wants To Grow WP Tavern’s Community. Yes, Tavern is read and commented on by many each week, but that’s not enough for Chandler. He would like to turn it into the second largest community outside of WordPress.org. “It would be awesome […]

Torque Toons: WooConf

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March 30, 2016

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Woo is one of the most celebrated names in the WordPress community. Its eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce, is one of the most popular WordPress plugins, with over a million active installs, making up 37 percent of all eCommerce sites. Plus, it even has its own conference. (And is also competing in the semi-finals in Torque’s 2016 Plugin Madness.) How is the company name received among people who aren’t in the community? Don’t forget to check out our other editorial cartoons!

How WordPress Sites Get Hacked (And What to Do About It)

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March 30, 2016

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Having your WordPress site hacked is one of the biggest nightmares for any website owner. From one moment to the next, your site is shut down. Traffic plummets and all the energy, effort, time, and money you put into your site is on the brink of being lost entirely. Finding and fixing the problem is hard work, however, not as hard as winning back your audience’s trust or getting your site off spam blacklists. While getting hacked is never pleasant, it is much more common than you would think. The ascent of WordPress has painted a large bullseye on the […]

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