Development

While reading Josh Pollock’s first article in his Advanced OOP for WordPress series, I noticed opportunities to improve his code’s quality and performance.  So I reached out to him. As a fellow educator, he suggested that I do a code review and then publish my insights in a series of articles here on Torque as a companion to his series. In this Code Quality Review series, I will present one or more code quality opportunities and provide details and insights to help you improve your code. Let’s start with the posts_pre_query method in his FilterWPQuery class: <?php class FilterWPQuery { […]

What is the optimal content length? How long should your blog posts be? What is the ideal word count for SEO? These are questions many would-be bloggers and marketers ask themselves. Obviously many things go into successful content marketing. From choosing the right keywords, to learning to write well, to image optimization. All these are factors in the success of your content. However, content length remains a critical topic, not least because it determines a lot about your overall strategy. Should you write a lot of shorter articles or concentrate on pushing out one massive article per month? Or is […]

As you probably already know, mobile usage is on the rise. From checking the news to online shopping, mobile has become the easiest and most accessible way to get things done—partly because users can rely on their mobile devices to be available anytime and anywhere, which makes it convenient with our on-the-go lifestyles. People are not only getting more comfortable using their smartphones to do things like shopping, they are also spending more time using them. Just from 2016 to 2017, time spent per day on mobile has reportedly increased by seven minutes, reaching a total 3 hours and 15 […]

There are many ways to improve freelance web developer revenue. The holy grail may be hidden somewhere between sales process improvements, creating better proposals, and changing the pitch. Sometimes the key is actually to offer products that do not require pitching at all. Let’s go through a few ways to get noticed and start making money. Drive Toward The Need Changing the way web developers position themselves is an excellent first step on the journey to making more money. The crucial part here is to understand what’s driving customers to purchase. Why do they even want to have a website? […]

Quality content is incredibly important for any website whether you’re a travel blogger or a large enterprise company. To grow your brand, you need a way to connect with your audience on a deeper level. This is where a blog comes in. If you don’t have a blog, you are doing something wrong. In order to create a complete digital experience for your viewers, you’ll need to create many touch points by which to reach them. However, once someone comes to your blog they better be reached with really good, quality content, otherwise, they may not take you seriously as […]