The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and other news. This week’s special guests, Erin Olson and Ben Fischer, came on to talk about Growth Suite. We talk focus on how Growth Suite was designed to help ease the pains of client management and what other features are on their way. We also talk about WordCamp US 2021’s call for nominations. Join us each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour.
3 Key Tasks You Can Automate on Your WordPress Site
Running a WordPress website requires a lot of time and energy. Between creating and publishing content, processing emails, and handling customer requests, it’s easy to feel a bit overwhelmed. Fortunately, there are tasks that you can automate to reclaim some of your time. You can use a plugin like Uncanny Automator to set some processes to run on their own, enabling you to turn your attention elsewhere. In this post, we’ll cover some of the benefits of automation, and introduce you to the Uncanny Automator plugin. Then we’ll have a look at three essential tasks you can automate on your […]
Home Office Burnout? 6 Ways to Help You Recover (Covid Edition)
The share of people working remotely and from their home office have skyrocketed during the COVID pandemic. This definitely had some positive impact on work culture and is something that the majority of people want to continue. At the same time, something that’s also on the rise is home office burnout. How can that be? Well, despite what companies feared, remote workers actually work more at home. On average an extra three hours per day. In addition, besides the usual work stressors (not to mention, feelings of insecurity while experiencing a global pandemic), working from home and the pandemic-imposed isolation […]
6 Essential Cybersecurity Practices for Remote Teams
As the global pandemic spread, countries worldwide had to go into lockdown to keep the virus from spreading. Many companies were left with no other option than to shift to online work. Working remotely has its benefits — employees spend less time commuting and are more productive. But there are also major security challenges. Employees who don’t take the necessary precautions can compromise sensitive information and leave their company vulnerable to cyber attacks. This article will cover essential cybersecurity practices for remote teams to follow that can safeguard your company against cyberattacks. 1. Establish a Cybersecurity Policy IT teams generally […]
8 Proper Ways to Hide Elements on Your Website With CSS (2021)
There are certain times when you just don’t want every aspect of your website hanging out in the breeze. That is, you don’t want every templated aspect of a page, post, header, or footer shown in every instance it appears. And while it might seem as though you have to rewrite the template or theme code for each time you want this omission to occur, that’s not actually true. In fact, you can hide elements on your website quickly using just CSS. And it’s actually pretty easy. Today, we’re discussing eight different ways to do so. Each of these options […]

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