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10 simple content hacks for more engagement, shares, and traffic

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February 9, 2015

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Is it just me or does talking about content marketing sometimes feel like discussing royal families? With so many people throwing around phrases like “Content is King!” and “Distribution is Queen!” I can’t always tell whether I am reading up on marketing or stumbled onto a Game of Thrones forum. However, apart from being an overused phrase, nobody will argue the importance of high-quality content in today’s online world. Unless you have been living under a rock for the past ten years, you are probably aware that producing great content on a regular basis is key to being successful on […]

11 ways to contribute to WordPress

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February 6, 2015

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WordPress is an open source project — meaning there is not one individual, entity, or company that maintains it. Instead, a community of people around the world contribute to WordPress and make it better every day. The WordPress community invites you to contribute as well. It doesn’t matter whether you are a developer, designer, writer, teacher, or just a user: You can be an absolute beginner or a seasoned veteran. If you want to get involved, there are many ways you can contribute. You can visit the wordpress.org website, which outlines all the ways you can help out. Just click here. […]

Why the best web dev teams are a little like the Guardians of the Galaxy

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February 5, 2015

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely seen (or at least heard of) the Marvel film, Guardians of the Galaxy. A solid installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Guardians tells the tale of Peter Quill, a half-human, half-alien who was abducted from earth as a kid and grew up cavorting around in space, picking up alien lady friends along the way. Everything is business as usual until he finds himself locked up with a group of criminals who band together to save the galaxy. What’s interesting is that each member of the crew brings something unique to […]

Automating WordPress plugin updates and releases with Grunt

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February 4, 2015

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In my last article, I demonstrated how to use three tools for automating WordPress theme, plugin, and full-site development using Grunt, a taskrunner that uses JavaScript for scripting. Creating tasks with Grunt to automate repetitive processes is actually quite easy. Not only is there a huge number of pre-existing tasks available, but its use of JavaScript also has its advantages. In this article I will be showing you how to automate the process of releasing a plugin. This is something I recently did for the Pods Framework, after an incident where I skipped a step doing it manually, causing our admin […]

A quick look at Google’s locale-aware crawling changes

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February 3, 2015

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The Internet has made it possible to run a website for a truly global audience. This raises the interesting question, though: how do I best serve readers in different countries? For many webmasters, this isn’t a problem at all. For example, here at Torque our content is identical whether you’re based in the US, UK, France, or anywhere else in the world. As long as you can read English, our content will serve you well. Sometimes, however, a one-size-fits-all approach isn’t the best option. Consider an eCommerce store, for example. If the eCommerce store sells internationally, it may need to adjust its […]

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