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LoopConf 2.1 Scheduled For February In Utah

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October 21, 2016

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After the threat of Hurricane Matthew postponed LoopConf, it looked like the conference may not happen at all. However, due to the hard work of the team, it has officially been rescheduled. Everyone has worked around the clock during the last two weeks to put together a do-over. The conference will now be held Feb. 7-8 in Salt Lake City, with workshops on Feb. 6. If you had a ticket to the original date and are able to attend in Salt Lake City, your ticket will automatically be transferred. Those that cannot attend the new date are asked to email […]

Director Of Communications At Let’s Encrypt Discusses The Future Of The Project

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October 19, 2016

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Let’s Encrypt first launched earlier this year and has quickly become a leader in the SSL marketplace. The project is a free and open-source certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group which aims to encrypt 100 percent of the web. We contacted the Director of Communications at Let’s Encrypt, Sarah Gran to see how the project is doing and what the future holds. The project has been moving steadily forward. According to Gran, along with WordPress.com and Bit.ly, hosting companies have also utilized the project. “On a more technical note, a recent milestone was our acceptance into Mozilla’s root program, a significant step in being able […]

13 Surprising WordPress Statistics (Updated 2021)

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October 18, 2016

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There’s no denying that WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world. But that’s just one of many impressive WordPress statistics. What started off as a personal project is now an integral part of the Internet’s architecture, powering hundreds of millions of websites. While you’re probably already familiar with the CMS, there might be some things about WordPress that you are not aware of. The following numbers on WordPress usage will shine a light on how popular the platform really is. Prepare to feel baffled. WordPress Usage Statistics That Will Make Your Jaw Drop As we are […]

Who Benefits From The AMP Revolution?

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October 17, 2016

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This month marks the one-year anniversary of Google’s accelerated mobile pages (AMP). Google in September added an AMP label to search results so you’ll know which articles will load faster on mobile, furthering the progress of the project. To keep up with the changes, Automattic announced updates to the AMP plugin, which is available for free in the plugin repository. What Is AMP? More and more people are surfing the Web on their phones. As many of us know, however, pages on mobile don’t load as quickly as they do on a desktop. According to Kissmetrics, “nearly half of web users expect […]

Tales From A First-Time WordCamper At WordCamp Phoenix

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October 5, 2016

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I’ve been writing for Torque for a year and have covered numerous WordCamps. I’ve written about venue changes, speaker deadlines, and ticket sales, but until last weekend, I had never actually attended a WordCamp. WordCamp Phoenix was a hot, inspirational, educational, and crazy weekend. There is a lot to be learned at any WordCamp, and I certainly did my fair share. Here are some of the things I picked up. Preparation I am not someone who is often underprepared. In fact, I tend to go overboard. So in the weeks leading up to WCPHX, I read about WordCamps, looked at photos, and asked […]

5 Takeaways From This Week’s AMA With Luca Sartoni

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September 29, 2016

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This week, Growth Engineer at Automattic Luca Sartoni took over the ManageWP AMA. Sartoni began as a developer and soon fell in love with the connection between software and marketing. He’s been working at Automattic for two years and helped organize WordCamp Europe. Community members stopped by to ask about public speaking, marketing, and as always, the future of WordPress. Here are five takeaways. Beware the illusion of knowledge. Though there are several pitfalls to growing the engineering process, the worst is the “illusion of knowledge.” Being overly certain about something can leave room for error. “We should not fear what we don’t know, but what we […]

WordPress In Action: Microsoft

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September 28, 2016

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Microsoft is one of the largest and most valuable tech companies in the world. Best known for products like Office, Xbox, Windows, and Skype, Microsoft is known as an industry leader. As such, the tech giant has unsurprisingly made the leap into the world of open source. In collaboration with web development agency WebDevStudios, Microsoft migrated several of its websites and blogs to WordPress.  “Most of the public facing blogs and websites that WebDevStudios migrated to WordPress for Microsoft ran on the same proprietary ASP.NET and SQL Server based Content Management System,” WDS CTO and Co-Founder Brian Messenlehner told Torque. “The other Microsoft websites […]

Why WordPress Projects Need A Proper Database Abstraction

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September 27, 2016

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A golden rule of WordPress development is “always use a WordPress API when possible.” We want to use classes and functions provided by WordPress to communicate with the database to ensure the right hooks are fired, and our code is as protected against changes made in future versions of WordPress. This also means we need to create a database abstraction on top of WordPress APIs. Doing so early on in a WordPress plugin, theme, or site will lead to less copy pasting and make it easier to fix changes later on. In this article, I’m going to talk about why […]

SEO Copywriting – An In-depth Guide to Rank High and Wow Readers

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September 23, 2016

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SEO copywriting is the answer to one of the biggest challenges faced by many website owners these days. Users now have to create content that appeals to people and search engines alike. After all, we not only want to rank well and generate traffic but also turn that traffic into buyers, customers, and subscribers, right? These two goals used to be the responsibility of SEO specialists and copywriters and it used to be enough to be either or. However, the way search engines work today, that is no longer the case. To be successful in today’s online market, website owners […]

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