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WordPress Revamps Testimonials Page Using #Ilovewp

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January 22, 2016

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Perhaps you cut your teeth on web development with your first WordPress blog. Maybe you paid your way through college developing WordPress sites for small businesses. Or maybe you attended your first WordCamp and instantly found yourself at home with a welcoming community of like-minded people. Whatever your reason for loving WordPress, Matt Mullenweg wants to know. Share your WordPress story for a chance to have it featured on the new testimonials page. Using the #ilovewp hashtag, share a blog post with your WordPress journey on Twitter or Facebook. Since its launch in 2002, the open-source software has been freely […]

WordPress.org Announces First Ever Worldwide Contributor Day

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January 22, 2016

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Need plans for next weekend? Gather some developer friends, a computer, and a pizza, and participate in WordPress.org’s first ever worldwide contributor weekend. Every month, WordPress.org will announce a theme and anyone, regardless of skill level is encouraged to try their hand at contributing. This month, the challenge is centered around the Support Team. You can either gather with a group of people or participate alone, but the objective is to answer 20 questions throughout the weekend. If you don’t get through all 20, that’s okay, just getting your feet wet is enough. The idea is to try to answer the […]

5 Free WordPress Poll Plugins

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January 21, 2016

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Polls and surveys are a great way to collect meaningful data to better understand your readers. Plus, they are a great way to ramp up reader engagement. With WordPress plugins, you can create a poll without knowing any code and easily embed the survey or poll functionality. Let’s take a look at five of the best poll plugins for WordPress. WP-Polls WP-Polls is extremely customizable with tons of different options to choose from so that your surveys and polls can run as smooth as possible. This easy-to-install plugin supports single and multiple answers and can be configured within minutes after installation. […]

The Future Of The REST API: An Interview With Daniel Bachhuber

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January 20, 2016

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A Day of REST, the developer conference on the WP REST API, is next week. It features speakers that contributed to the API directly and some who put it into practice. It is the ultimate place to hone your skills as a developer and learn a lot about the REST API and how to use it. Daniel Bachhuber contributed 128 hours to the project and knows a thing or two about how it began and what the future holds. The Beginning Of The REST API Bachhuber joined the project in Aug. 2014 at Contributor’s Day at WordCamp NYC, where he, Joe […]

5 Niche WordPress Conferences You Can’t Miss In 2016

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January 13, 2016

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We’ve come a long way since the first WordCamp in 2006 in San Francisco. In 2015, 89 WordCamps were held in 34 countries with over 21,000 attendees total. That’s just WordCamps alone. There were 2,000 other meetups around the world attended by 40,000 people. Over the past few years, WordPress has seen a rise in niche conferences. And, as WordPress grows to be more dynamic, they will likely continue to gain popularity. Here are five niche conferences to look out for in 2016. A Day Of REST The WordPress REST API has gained momentum over last year and will be fully merged […]

Introducing ‘The Beginner’s Guide To Multisite,’ A Free Ebook

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January 12, 2016

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Multisite allows you to set up a network of websites from a single WordPress installation. With Multisite, you can manage your sites without having to update or make changes to each site individually, which makes it easier than ever to maintain your sites. If you want to start using Multisite or if you just want to learn more about it, download The Beginner’s Guide To Multisite. This free ebook, written by Torque contributor Nick Schäferhoff, covers everything you need to know about WordPress Multisite, including: How to get started advantages of Multisite and use cases when not to use Multisite setting […]

What’s New In WordPress: 1/11/2016

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January 11, 2016

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Have a news tip or an upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly ‘What’s New In WordPress’ roundup? Write us at [email protected]. WordPress Multilingual Finally Explained: This is a great look at different multilingual plugins and how to use them to make your site more accessible. Planning For WCUS 2017 Underway, Applications For Host City Now Open: You can now nominate your city to host WordCamp US in 2017 and 2018. Here is all the info on how to apply and what you need to submit. How To Add Settings To WordPress Default Settings: You can customize everything […]

What’s Next For WordPress?

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January 8, 2016

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In the tech world, we’ve seen it over and over again. Large, incumbent technologies and companies are overtaken by newer ones. And those older ones fall into near obscurity. It makes you wonder: what will happen to WordPress? Will something come along and uproot WordPress’s dominance or will it continue to take over the Internet? To truly understand the future direction of WordPress, we need to take a look at the main three end-users of WordPress: The Casual Bloggers/Hobbyists — These are the WordPress users who blog without any type of profit in mind. Most of the time, their blog […]

Free WordPress Themes: December 2015

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January 7, 2016

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December was a big month for the WordPress world: we got a new version of WordPress, updated WordPress.com, and a new Twenty Sixteen default theme, which I have omitted from this roundup, though you can find a detailed review of it here. It was also a big month for themes, and I have found the best free ones. Let’s take a look. Willow Willow is a simple child theme of Twenty Sixteen, with the major stylistic change being that it showcases content in a single column layout, rather than two columns. Download Amethyst Amethyst is a simple and fully responsive WordPress […]

100 WordPress Influencers To Follow In 2016

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January 6, 2016

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Last year, I wrote a post on 100 WordPress influencers to follow in 2015. The list was based off who I followed before 2015. All of them, in some way or another, work to improve the WordPress community. I had the pleasure of interviewing many of them over the year. Several commenters shared their own lists of influencers and recommendations of WordPressers to follow. I connected and followed many of these people in 2015. I also followed some hidden gems in the WordPress community who are contributing to WordPress with their amazing products and services. 2015 was a great year […]

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