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Torque At WordCamp Boston This Weekend

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July 17, 2015

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WordCamp Boston kicks off tomorrow at the George Sherman Union at Boston University with a special keynote presentation by Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing, Innovation Nights, and Innovation Women. The two-day event features more than twenty-five speakers and boasts five different tracks for developers, designers, freelancers, business owners and entrepreneurs, and bloggers and users. There will also be three keynote presentations: Visibility = Opportunity by Bobbie Carlton, Smaller, Faster Websites by Mat Marquis, and a Q&A with Core Developers Scott Taylor and Konstantin Obenland. You can view the full schedule here. More than three hundred people are expected to attend WordCamp Boston, despite two other WordCamps also […]

Interview With WPShout’s Fred Meyer, Co-Author Of Up And Running: A Practical Guide To WordPress Development

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July 9, 2015

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Last month, WPShout published its first ebook entitled Up and Running: A Practical Guide to WordPress Development. The 250-page ebook aims to educate WordPress developers on the fundamentals of core, which includes in-depth walkthroughs by thirteen seasoned WordPress developers, quizzes to test your knowledge at the end of each chapter, and six infographics. We interviewed co-author of Up and Running, Fred Meyer. Here’s what he had to say: Torque: Where did the inspiration for Up and Running come from? FM: One of our readers recently wrote us, “I have taken several WordPress theme development courses and read two books on it. By a landslide, yours is […]

What’s New In WordPress 07/13/2015

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July 8, 2015

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Do you have a news tip or upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly What’s New In WordPress roundup? Write us at [email protected]. News Highlights Automattic Wins Thesis.com Lawsuit: Automattic successfully defended their right to use Thesis.com, despite opposition from Thesis framework developer, Chris Pearson. Some interesting comparisons can be drawn between this case and the TheWordPressHelpers.com dispute. WP Stagecoach Subscription Changes: We missed last month’s rollout of WP Stagecoach, an automated tool for cloning WordPress sites, but they’ve just announced changes to their subscription plan. The new change should appeal to folks looking to work with just one main blog. WordPress eCommerce Guide: Here’s […]

Five Things You Missed At WordCamp Europe 2015

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July 8, 2015

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Can WordPress make you sweat? Absolutely. Just ask anyone who attended WordCamp Europe a few weeks ago in Seville. The weekend saw temperatures swell to nearly one hundred degrees (or forty degrees for our friends using Celsius). Beyond temperatures, the material at this year’s WordCamp Europe was equally “hot.” Speakers like Matt Mullenweg, Karin Christen, and Becs Rivett turned up the heat with insights that are sure to set the WordPress world ablaze over the next few months. For those who didn’t attend, here are five things you missed: Ethics and Social Responsibility Ethics and social responsibility aren’t exactly the first […]

What’s New In WordPress 07/06/2015

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July 6, 2015

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Have a news tip or upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly What’s New In WordPress roundup, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: WordPress Happy Hour In SF: We are so excited to be hosting our first WordPress meetup in San Francisco. Sign up here and come join us early this Wednesday for some free drinks and snacks. Shortcode Improvements In Core: The core team discussed the potential of committing the Shortcake plugin to the WordPress core. WordPress 4.3 Preview: WPBeginner talked about what to expect in WordPress 4.3, which is slated for release next month. WordCamp Europe Q&A highlights: During his recent panel at WordCamp Europe, Matt […]

5 Ways WordPress is Like the Ultimate Lego Set

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July 6, 2015

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I think most people my age have fond memories of playing with Lego sets as a kid. I remember building tower after tower, again and again. It made for hours of enjoyment. What I think is most remarkable about this toy is how limitless it is. You can create anything you want, and, with enough blocks, you can keep building and creating as far as your imagination will take you. Throw in a few themed sets and the sky’s the limit. Now as an adult, I recognize the infinite learning potential Lego gives my kids. But I can also see […]

Plugins vs. Themes: Do You Know the Difference?

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July 2, 2015

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Do you know what the difference is between a WordPress theme and a WordPress plugin? For the longest time I did not. Many may say it doesn’t matter knowing which is which. But let me tell you a short story from back when I was a beginner…when knowing the difference would have helped. When My Site Stopped Working The first few WordPress websites I built, I honestly didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Around this time, I started building a real estate website. I first went searching for a WordPress theme that was made for real estate websites and found […]

Is Modular Code the Future of WordPress?

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July 1, 2015

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This year at WordCamp Miami I had the pleasure of meeting John James Jacoby, or JJJ. Many of you may know him as the man behind BuddyPress, but I got to know him for another, older project, that he used to be involved with, BackPress. The more I learned about BackPress, the more I became intrigued. That’s when JJJ and I started talking about the revival of the BackPress project. The BackPress Back Story BackPress started its life as the foundational library of WordPress. It was more or less the wp-includes directory, which granted access to all of the php functions that […]

Is Web Design Dying?

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June 29, 2015

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For a good period of time, web pages have served as the axis mundi of the Internet. As such, designing those pages has also had its periods of glory. However, as of lately, web design in itself is playing second fiddle to certain new trends that are on the rise. In fact, because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, web design is no longer the same. In this post, we discuss factors that have recently affected the world of web design. The Rise of Mobile It is no secret that mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have risen to […]

Elegant Themes is Evolving: What This Means for the Premium WordPress Marketplace

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June 26, 2015

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Elegant Themes, the brainchild of CEO Nick Roach, has been a popular name in premium WordPress development for years. It’s long been known for its innovative and relatively inexpensive pricing structure (pay $69, get access to all 87 themes), combined with the quality of the themes it releases. It was only recently, however, that Elegant Themes started making a name for itself in the premium plugins space. Their latest releases—Bloom, which creates beautiful email opt-in forms, and Monarch, which ET touts as “the best social sharing plugin for WordPress”—have been smash hits, especially Bloom. It’s safe to assume that in the […]

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