Articles | @thetorquemag

Defining the WordPress 80/20 problem

Author

Josh Pollock

Filed Under

Community, Featured

Published

March 11, 2015

13 Comments

The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, states that “for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.” The 80/20 rule is named after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, and was popularized as a business tool in the book Living the 80/20 Way, by Richard Koch. This is one of the most useful principles for finding the most important things to focus on in business marketing and development. Identifying the 20% of your efforts that have the biggest impacts is a fundamental step in maximizing your efficiency in any pursuit. Most people with a freelance web […]

Plugged in: A Review of qTranslate X

Author

Nick Schäferhoff

Filed Under

Featured

Published

March 10, 2015

7 Comments

“Plugged in” is a reoccurring feature on Torque that aims to take a closer look at different plugins each week. If you have any suggestions for plugins you’d like to see reviewed, write us at [email protected]. Let’s take a little trip down memory lane, shall we? My first ever article written for Torque was this one: 4 ways to turn WordPress into a multilingual website. As the name suggests, it describes how to display any WordPress site in more than one language. In the article I also mentioned a plugin which had been among my absolute favorites for a long time: qTranslate. […]

This week in WordPress: A weekly news roundup

Author

Marie Dodson

Filed Under

News

Published

March 9, 2015

No Comments

Just in case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest happenings from this past week. If you have a news tip you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. W25K DMCA win: WordPress wins $25,00 from DMCA takedown abuser. Introducing the WordPress security whitepaper: WordPress published its WordPress security whitepaper, which includes analysis of WordPress core software development and security processes. On WordPress history: The first version of Siobhan McKeown’s book on WordPress history is finished. GoChat.US: Developers, this is what happens when you use every css scrolling and animation effect at the same time. Shop Plugins: Shop Plugins is a marketplace focused on eCommerce […]

A quick overview of HTTP/2: what it is, what to expect, and what it means for you

Author

Shaun Quarton

Filed Under

News

Published

March 9, 2015

1 Comment

Things move incredibly quickly in the online world. Articles can become obsolete in under a year, and in many cases just a few short months. With this in mind, it’s really quite surprising that the internet’s underlying protocol, HTTP, has not been updated for over 15 years—a lifetime in internet terms. HTTP, the abbreviation for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is most familiarly used at the start of a website address: http://www.example.com. However, its real purpose is to control how your web browser communicates with the server of the website you’re visiting. Of course, websites have come a long way from the basic, […]

How fast is your website? Here are 5 free tools to find out

Author

Brandon Yanofsky

Filed Under

Featured

Published

March 6, 2015

1 Comment

You’ve heard having a fast website is important, but do you know exactly how important it really is? Google conducted a test where they made their search pages take just half a second longer to load. The result: a 20% drop in traffic! Furthermore, while the average web page load time is 7.25 seconds, 47% of consumers expect a web page to load in 2 seconds or less. So, how fast does your website load? And if it isn’t fast enough, how can you improve it? Below, I’ve highlighted 5 free tools you can use to not only test your website’s […]

How do you stay on top of your WordPress game?