Have a news tip or upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly What’s New In WordPress roundup, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: Design a Wapuu for Torque: We’ve been seeing Wapuus everywhere lately, so we thought it would be fun to run a Torque-themed Wapuu contest. Help design a special Wapuu for our office. Envato Targeted by DDoS attack: “Since July 1, Envato has been the target of a sustained DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack.” These attacks have heavily affected sales on Themeforest and the Envato Market. WooTheme’s New Partnership: Sidekick, makers of interactive tutorial videos, have recently […]
Learn WooCommerce: WooThemes And SIDEKICK Partnership Announced
WooThemes have announced a new partnership with WordPress training experts, SIDEKICK. This means WooCommerce users will now have a new way to learn how to use the world’s most popular eCommerce platform—by following along with voice-guided, interactive walkthroughs. WooThemes have created 22 walkthroughs so far, totaling over 50 minutes’ worth of WooCommerce training. The walkthroughs are split into five categories: General Settings Products Checkout and Payments Shipping Taxes This is the latest push from Woo to empower their users to get the most out of the WooCommerce platform, following on from their extensive in-house video walkthrough series. Accessing the Walkthroughs […]
Torque At WordCamp Boston This Weekend
WordCamp Boston kicks off tomorrow at the George Sherman Union at Boston University with a special keynote presentation by Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing, Innovation Nights, and Innovation Women. The two-day event features more than twenty-five speakers and boasts five different tracks for developers, designers, freelancers, business owners and entrepreneurs, and bloggers and users. There will also be three keynote presentations: Visibility = Opportunity by Bobbie Carlton, Smaller, Faster Websites by Mat Marquis, and a Q&A with Core Developers Scott Taylor and Konstantin Obenland. You can view the full schedule here. More than three hundred people are expected to attend WordCamp Boston, despite two other WordCamps also […]
The Torque Wapuu Contest
I saw my first Wapuu just a few months back. Since then, I’ve been noticing them all over the WordPress ecosystem, even in the most obscure places. With so many different Wapuus out there, we thought that it’s time to see a Torque-themed one, so we’ve decided to run a contest. What Is A “Wapuu”? Wapuu is the official WordPress Japan mascot—though I am convinced that WordPressers everywhere would adopt it as their own if they only knew about it. Wapuu’s fandom runs deep in certain circles. There are literally hundreds of different variations of the Wappuu—including, but not limited to, the lumberjack Wapuu, the mecha […]
3 Audio Player Plugins For WordPress
To find more great plugins, check out Torque’s free eBook, The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Plugins. Download it here. Audio player plugins: it’s one of those plugin niches that you never really think about until you actually need one. Take me, for instance. The concept audio player plugins had never crossed my mind (although considering the number of podcasts I listen to I probably have used at least one or two in the past) until I needed to embed some audio files on one of my websites. If you’re reading this post, then you’re probably looking to do the same. […]

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