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The Expanding World Of WordPress Innovation

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April 4, 2014

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With a growing number of innovations centered around WordPress, the community has begun to immerse itself in the broader realm of mainstream technology. WordPress businesses are starting to compete, and find their place, among other popular technology — and WordPress, as an ecosystem, is evolving. One illustration of this can be seen in AppPresser’s recent nomination as one of the 6 About to Break at MacWorld/iWorld. To understand how AppPresser — and WordPress more broadly — fit into this scene, I reached out to the co-founder of AppPresser, Scott Bolinger, to share his experience. Macworld/iWorld is an annual, Apple-dedicated trade show. Each […]

DradCast Episode 39: Pricing Drelema

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April 3, 2014

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Show Notes Host Chris Lema started using WordPress in 2005 because of how user-friendly it is for customers. He’s still active in the WordPress community—consulting with different companies to help them think through strategy. Chris attends about 6 WordCamps a year, in addition to starting his own WordPress events. One such event is in Cabo, where folks can spend time relaxing in villas while talking shop about WordPress. He is also the creator of WPwatercooler, one of the more popular WordPress weekly shows. You can contact him on twitter @chrislema, or on his website. Sippin’ On Brad Captain Morgan Private Stock Dre […]

Hosting Recommendations at WordPress.org: Time for Change?

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April 3, 2014

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WordPress.org should update their hosting recommendations’ page. A few days back, I received this email from an old client of mine: “Hi Sufyan! I needed some help from you regarding WordPress hosting for my site. I’m right now hosted with Bluehost but my site has been performing very slow and keeps throwing up server error messages (I have attached some screenshots for you to look). When I write to Bluehost support about this they tell me their servers are fine and the problem is at my end. I am using the regular plugins only like Akismet and WP Super Cache. […]

Speed up to a Higher Rank and ROI

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April 2, 2014

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The web isn’t what it used to be. In the past, before the web frontier was conquered, anyone could throw up a website and make money. This is because search engine ranking was fairly straightforward and easy to understand. Your site could be successfully ranked simply by using keywords, avoiding the use of images for links, and keeping words at the bottom of the page to a minimum. Today, the landscape has drastically changed. The, once empty, web has become Times Square. There’s advertising in all directions, with millions of people playing the same game. So, naturally, maintaining a high […]

Introducing WP BrainWaves

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April 1, 2014

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WP BrainWaves provides you with the ability to perform basic functions on your WordPress website from virtually anywhere. Through the utilization of a relatively simple Brain Computer Interface (BCI), you can use your brainwaves to communicate directly with your WordPress site. Allowing unprecedented portability and greater control, this plugin is ideal for on-the-go WordPress users of all skill levels. Now available—April 1, 2014. April fools! To celebrate the mischievous occasion, here’s some of the best April Fools’ Day pranks around the web. 1) YouTube Announces Upcoming Viral Video Trends In the spirit of April Fools’ Day, YouTube made an announcement taking credit for every […]

Hack with a Purpose This Weekend: ‘HACKtivation for the Homeless’ in SF

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March 27, 2014

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Are you a web developer or designer located in San Francisco with a desire to give back to the amazing community you call home? If so, this is the event for you. HACKtivation for the Homeless is an opportunity to join partners from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to collaborate on civic issues, and address the issue of homelessness in San Francisco. Join ReAllocate, on March 28 – 30, in partnership with St. Anthony Foundation, Project Homeless Connect, Spotify, Lyft, Innovation Alley, Larkin Street Youth, among others, to help alleviate the stresses of San Francisco’s homeless population. It’s bound to be a memorable […]

Episode 38: Boone in the Hat

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March 27, 2014

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZcOoGHlWk8&feature=share Show Notes Host Boone Gorges is a plugin developer for WordPress. He’s also a lead developer for BuddyPress, and an overseer in the development of the CUNY Academic Commons, Anthologize, and Participad. You can find him on twitter @Boone and on his website. What they’re sippin’ on Boone – Brooklyn Lager Dre – Water Brad – Johnny Walker Black Interview Education sector Boone started out on a track in academia—teaching, studying philosophy, attending graduate school. Boone began utilizing blogs, and WordPress.com in particular, to assign writing assignments in the classes he was teaching. He began to realize the important relationships between a […]

WP Curve’s Alex McClafferty Interviewed on Fox Tech Take

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March 27, 2014

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Clayton Morris of Fox Tech Take started out this segment—titled WP Curve takes WordPress to the next level—by asking his viewers this: What percentage of the web do you think is run on WordPress? Ding ding ding! Torque readers all know the answer to this one. As WP Curve‘s Alex McClafferty confirmed, the answer is: over 20% of the entire internet. Strangely, this doesn’t seem to be common knowledge outside of the WordPress ecosystem. In response to the revelation, Clayton Morris exclaimed: So that’s a great business opportunity! It is indeed. As Alex explained in the interview, WordPress has a thriving ecosystem that continues to grow […]

Is WordPress Suitable For Live Blogging?

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March 26, 2014

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For good and for bad, immediacy is an essential component of successful online publishing. To gain attention, publishers have to capture the wave of a trending topic before it peaks. Traditional blogs aren’t well suited for covering events as they happen—blogging is an after-the-fact medium. Blogs are an exceptional platform for analysis, news reporting, and other writing. But, they’re not ideal for immediacy and the real-time reporting that drives traffic to social media networks like Twitter. Why not just use Twitter or Google+ instead of trying to fit a round peg into a square hole? For the same reason publishers […]

WhatTheme: Find Out Which Theme a Website is Using

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March 25, 2014

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Nowadays, pre-made themes and templates are the norm. Since WordPress makes it so easy to change and modify your theme, more and more users are growing curious about which theme a particular website is using. Generally speaking, the best way to determine this is to perform a code inspection—but not everyone has the time and/or skills to do this. As a result, many browser extensions and online tools are developing ways to help you uncover the theme that’s being employed by any given website. The latest tool is WhatTheme, launched by Inspired Magazine. Describing itself as “shazam for website templates,” WhatTheme […]

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