Last month, John James Jacoby (or JJJ) launched a 24-day Indiegogo campaign to help focus his time solely on the development and improvement of BuddyPress, GlotPress, and bbPress for the next 6 months. With less than 34 hours to go, JJJ has surpassed his 50K goal, exemplifying the supportive nature of the WordPress community, and confirming the importance of the further development of these beloved plugins. Check out our chat with him below, then consider chipping in a few bucks to help his project out. Crowdfunding and open source: the perfect pair Torque: It’s exciting to see developers coming to the community to get support […]
Get the Torque app for your iOS or Android device
Hey smart readers, we just wanted to let you know that the official Torque Magazine app is now available for your smartphones. You can download it free for your Android or iOS device! Last week you probably saw our walk-through of AppPresser’s new Reactor service, which turns WordPress sites into native, cross-platform apps. Our mobile app was created with that same technology. So now you can read an article about porting your WordPress site to an app on an app that was ported from a WordPress site. Meta, right? Here’s a quick demo of the app in action: We’ve already seen […]
Flickr and Creative Commons: Fair use or mass theft?
Is it OK for a company to sell your Creative Commons work without your permission or compensation? That’s the question Flickr users are debating right now after a the launch of the company’s new print making service. For those unfamiliar, Creative Commons is an open-source framework for photographers, makers, artists, and more to define how their work may be used. The 4 basic variations of CC are: -attribution -noncommercial -no derivative works -share alike Flickr embraced CC licensing many years ago and now hosts over 300,000,000 CC-licensed images. Last month the company began a new printing service that allows customers […]
Things the WordPress community is thankful for this year
In the WordPress ecosystem, we find ourselves surrounded by a great community, full of helpful people and technology that keeps getting better and better each year. Whether you’ve just started preparing your Turducken, or you are part of 95.5% of the world that doesn’t do the whole Thanksgiving thing, we appreciate you stopping by today. With that in mind, there’s plenty of things for WordPressers to be grateful for this season, here’s our list: Client-friendly security updates that automatically install themselves. JJJ committing the next 6 months of his life to BuddyPress, bbPress & GlotPress. Matt Mullenweg being a really snappy dresser. Git integration. […]
Torque Is Growing, Come Join Us!
Got lots to share with the WordPress and the open source community? We’d like to hear it! Over the past year Torque has shared nearly 2,000 articles and our audience has continued to grow. We’d like to keep growing with them, but we need your help. Our goal is to be the community hub for new and advanced WordPress professionals. With topics ranging from the differences between Posts and Pages, to processing form data using the REST API and AJAX — we cover the gamut. If you are interested in sharing your knowledge on community events, news, SEO, plugins, themes, client management, and more, send an email […]
Short Interviews from WordCamp San Francisco
We had a great time hanging out and chatting with everyone at WordCamp San Francisco this weekend. Throughout the weekend, we were lucky enough to interview some of the attendees and ask them about their WordCamp experiences. In this article, we’ve shared a few of our favorites, but you can see the full set of interviews here. Thanks to all our old and new friends for their time! Crafty Chica Crafty Chica is a legend in the craft community. Her talk focused on how bringing passion to whatever you do can pay off. As a side note, Kathy’s blog was an early […]
Meet Doc Pop
Today, I am pleased to introduce Torque’s new Content Strategist, Doctor Popular! Doc will be revamping Torque’s creative, social, and content strategy (you’ve probably seen his illustrations in the wildly popular Torque talks series). Doc brings with him years of creative experience as a community manager, game designer, and talented photographer. He has written for LaughingSquid and other fun blogs, but mostly he concentrates on developing his own website, DocPop.org. Doc’s been featured in the New York Times and SFGate for his superior photography skills. In 2001, he was named National Trick Innovator of the Year in the National Yo-Yo League. In his free time, […]
Installing Twitter Cards on Your WordPress site
In recent years, Twitter has turned from a strictly text based forum to a media rich platform. Tweets containing Vine or YouTube urls, for instance, will automatically display the video underneath the tweet. Along with these new changes, Twitter has added support for bloggers to automatically create customizable previews whenever someone shares one of their links. These previews, called Twitter Cards, can display an image from the post along with a snippet and an easy link to the author’s Twitter handle. Adding Twitter Cards to WordPress Adding Twitter Card support to any WordPress site is a pretty simple process and […]
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