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Torque Social Hour: Using CodeWP and AI to Generate WordPress Snippets

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February 9, 2023

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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with James LePage, the Founder of CodeWP, an AI code generator for WordPress. James tells us about his time running a WordPress agency and how it led to him building a tool that uses AI to generate WordPress snippets. We discuss how CodeWP trained its data, how it can be used, some of the other AI tools designed for WordPress users, and a deep dive into some of the history behind ChatGPT and GPT3. We’ve talked a lot about AI and WordPress […]

Get Ready for WordCamp Asia 2023, Finally

Emily Schiola

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February 8, 2023

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After three difficult years, WordCamp Asia is happening! The flagship event was scheduled for February of 2020 but had to be canceled due to the pandemic. This was a painful decision for the organizers who had put so much volunteer time into organizing such a ground-breaking event. However, nothing can dampen the spirit of the WordPress community who banded together to make it happen this year. Same city, same venue, same great people. The conference runs from February 17-19 in Bangkok, Thailand. If you were unable to secure a ticket before they sold out in only 24 hours, never fear. […]

Define Your Target Audience: 15 Tips and Tools to Reach Clients

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February 7, 2023

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If you’re like most people running a business, you probably don’t have a lot of time to waste. The last thing you want to do is spend months creating a product or service that no one wants to buy. So how do you know if your idea is even worth pursuing? The answer: properly define your target audience. Defining and understanding who you are creating something for is essential for any business owner. But figuring out how to go about doing that might seem a tad confusing at first. Thankfully, we’ve gathered a variety of tips about how to define a […]

Plugin Madness 2023 Nominations Open

Emily Schiola

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February 6, 2023

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Tie up your Jordans, put on your compression sleeve, and stretch out your hamstrings because it is time for Plugin Madness. Now in its eighth year, this bracket-style competition pits the best 64 WordPress plugins against each other to find the very best one. But first, we need you! To find our contenders we’re turning to the experts, the WordPress community, for Plugin Madness nominations. We want to find the hidden gems. Tell us about the plugins that solve an annoying problem, that make life easier, or that just work really well. Plugins will be sorted into four categories; Marketing, […]

How to Use Mastodon: A Step-by-Step Beginner’s Guide (2023)

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February 1, 2023

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Since the acquisition and continued dismantling of Twitter by a certain billionaire, an increasing number of people are interested in learning how to use Mastodon, one of Twitter’s more popular competitors. How popular? Well, the news recently dropped that Twitter now officially blocks links to Mastodon (and other social platforms) and flags them as malware. So, if Twitter’s new owner takes Mastodon seriously, maybe the rest of us should as well? All snark aside, after users started quitting Twitter in droves and looking for a new home, Mastodon is one of the biggest winners of this exodus. If, like me, […]

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