Jennifer M. Dodd yesterday shared a detailed plan to upgrade the WordPress.org support forums to bbPress 2.x. The forums, which are currently powered by the outdated bbPress 1.x, are difficult to maintain and lack the flexibility offered by bbPress 2.x. Upgrading is essential because it makes it easier for the forums to be maintained by the community. The upgrade goal was set at the 2015 WordPress Community Summit, however, it has been delayed due to plugin compatibility issues: “Part of the delay has been that the forums rely on many custom plugins to make them manageable; some of these plugins have already […]
WooMattic’s Future: True Ecommerce Democratization
Since day one, WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic Matt Mullenweg’s mission for WordPress has been the democratization of publishing. And when Automattic last May acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce, the popular ecommerce plugin, Mullenweg shared an idea to create a solution where it’s as easy publish stores online as WordPress has made it to publish websites. WordPress Democratizes Publishing Democratizing publishing is ambitious, and it’s something that WordPress achieves with grace. Users can easily spin up a free site on Automattic’s WordPress.com or for a low cost by signing up with a WordPress host. With thousands of free plugins to choose from, […]
Registrars Can Sign Up Now To Sell .blog TLD
Registrars can now sign up on nic.blog for the rights to sell the .blog top-level domain. According to nic.blog, registrars can also sign up to receive more information on the timeline, implementation details, and more. Pricing for the new gTLD will be standard for top-level domains and will also include premium options for higher-value names. “Pricing will be in the standard range for new gTLDs, with premium names available in several tiers,” the site said. “High margins for registrars will be guaranteed by an incentive model, rewarding sales above a certain baseline. Final terms will be published in the coming weeks.” While […]
Clean Up Your Site With ‘Spring Cleaning Tips For WordPress Site Optimization’ [Ebook]
The reality is that, over time, your WordPress site can become bloated and bogged down by unused or unnecessary plugins, broken links, comment spam, and more. That’s why it’s important to intermittently optimize your site to keep it running fast and smooth. Spring Cleaning Tips For WordPress Site Optimization walks through how to clean up and declutter your WordPress website. Download Spring Cleaning Tips For WordPress Site Optimization In this free ebook, Torque contributor Nick Schäferhoff provides tips on how to optimize your WordPress sites, including, Scanning for malware and changing passwords deleting unused plugins and themes removing old post and page drafts cleaning and […]
WordPress.org Updates Hosting Recommendations
WordPress.org updated the hosting recommendations on their site, a revamp that has been in motion for nearly a year. DreamHost, SiteGround, and Flywheel have joined Bluehost as recommended hosting providers on WordPress.org/hosting. There are, however, some notable omissions from the lineup, like popular hosting providers WP Engine, Pagely, and more. The WordPress.org team last year announced that they were starting from scratch with the hosting page, and subsequently released a 40-question survey asking hosts various questions about their technology, customers, and more. On the hosting page, WordPress.org notes that the list is “completely arbitrary,” but hosts must meet a certain criteria to be listed. The […]
WordPress.com Announces ‘.blog’ Domain
WordPress.com today announced .blog, a new top-level domain extension that will give blog owners a way to better personalize and identify their blogs. The .blog extension also opens up a vast new pool of potential blog names and URLs that may already be in use by .com sites. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, quietly acquired the rights to .blog in 2015 for an estimated $20 million, according to a blog post by Matt Mullenweg. Automattic is the sole operator of the new .blog domains, and as such will have the right to sell the new top-level domain. The .blog domains, which will […]
GitHub Introduces Fixed Pricing For Unlimited Private Repositories
GitHub today announced that all paid plans on GitHub.com will include unlimited private repositories. This means that instead of paying based on the number of repositories used, users will have access to unlimited repositories at a fixed rate: Personal: $7 per month for an individual plan Organization: $9 per user per month for an organization, or $25 per month for the first five users Enterprise: $21 per month for the enterprise package, which is sold in packs of 10 users and billed annually All paid individual accounts will be automatically moved to the new plan over the next few days. Organizations will […]
ACF Creator Elliot Condon Shares How To Create A Successful WordPress Plugin
With more than 40,000 free plugins available in the repository alone, creating a plugin that will stand out from the crowd can seem like an impossible feat. There is a lot of valuable content out there that provides insight on how to create a successful WordPress plugin, from attending WordCamps and Meetups and contributing to WordPress core, to creating brand awareness and so on. While these are useful strategies, Elliot Condon, creator of the wildly popular Advanced Custom Fields plugin (winner of the first Torque Plugin Madness Tournament), proves that creating a successful plugin isn’t always about brand recognition and networking, but rather in the plugin’s […]
WordPress Vs. Drupal: CMS Comparison [Infographic]
WordPress and Drupal are two of the most popular content management systems, which makes it difficult to choose between them. This infographic provides a side-by-side comparison of the two CMSs to help you decide which one to use for your product or website [click to enlarge]. Download our white paper to learn more about how WordPress and Drupal stack up against each other.
WooCommerce Connect Now Available For Testing
WooThemes yesterday announced WooCommerce Connect, a new functionality aiming to make it easier for anyone to start an online store and simplify the current process of adding extensions to your site by offloading the code to Automattic’s servers. The new feature is now available for alpha testing. “To make all of this happen, most of the code you used to have to download now lives on a secure server that we host. We’re using Jetpack to allow your site to talk to that server securely,” the announcement said. Connect leverages a SaaS-style Automattic-hosted server to do the heavy lifting and takes […]
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