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Let the madness begin! Voting for Torque’s 2018 Plugin Madness is now open. Modeled after the NCAA college basketball tournament March Madness, we use a bracket-based voting system to pit plugins against one another each week. This year we asked you to nominate your favorite plugins, and today we’re happy to kick things off with an impressive lineup of plugins. Head on over to pluginmadness.com to vote for your favorite plugins now. Vote for your favorite plugins here The voting schedule is as follows: March 5: The Enchanting 64 (Round 1) March 12:  The Thrilling 32 (Round 2) March 19: […]

WordPress has grown from a blogging platform to a powerful tool that powers 29 percent of the web. It has become a place you can build a portfolio, enterprise site, or an ecommerce site. You can sell anything from plugins to sweaters using the CMS. We’ve compiled all the tips and tricks you need to know to create a fully-functional online store into a free ebook. Download the Ultimate Guide to eCommerce for WordPress Here! This ebook will teach you everything from A/B Testing to site design to customer retention all in one place. Create a beautiful website from start to […]

  During the 2017 WP Engine Summit, leaders from four agencies delivering innovative digital experiences with open source participated in a panel at the WP Engine Summit in order to explore and dissect how they have implemented open source in their work and where they see it going for the future. The panel consisted of Greg Crockhart, CEO at CandySpace, Karim Marucchi, CEO at Crowd Favorite, Isabel Kantor, Senior Technology Director at R/GA, Ben Howerton, Cofounder & Chief Strategist at DevMethods and was moderated by Eric Jones, VP Global Communications for WP Engine. Most Noteworthy Implementations of WordPress The panelists […]

The year 2017 is drawing to a close, and this year WordPress saw 11 public releases, and 11 beta or release candidate versions. Those of us close to the WordPress community may be noticing that the world of WordPress seems bigger and wider, in a way. What happened to WordPress in 2017? Many tiny changes built large milestones in the thought leadership behind WordPress. Read on to learn how WordPress silently transformed in 2017. Supporting innovation for the developer This year WordPress forged two distinct paths of improvements: those for the WordPress developer, and those for the editor. For the […]