Shortcodes are a popular feature included in many plugins and themes. However, if you’ve never built your own shortcodes before, you may have no idea how to add them to your own WordPress projects. Thankfully, WordPress’ Shortcode API makes it fairly simple to create your own shortcodes. Doing this will enable users to take advantage of your plugin …
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Matt Mullenweg on the Gutenberg Editor, Feature-Focused Releases, and More [Interview]
At WordCamp Europe 2017 in Paris, I had the opportunity to sit down with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg for an interview on feature-focused releases, The Gutenberg Editor, niche WordCamps, and more. During the 2016 State of the Word, Mullenweg announced the move away from scheduled releases, toward a feature-focused process, specifically focusing on three major …
Introducing Faces of WordPress, the People and Projects behind WordPress
As of 2017, WordPress powers over 28 percent of the internet. The success of WordPress, like all open-source projects, is a testament to the collaborate work of the community that surrounds it. Since WordPress first launched more 14 years ago, tens of thousands of people have participated in the project. While we couldn’t find a …
Solving the Theme Default Confusion: Interview with Primož Cigler
WordPress theme authors spend a lot of time practicing to make sure their theme demos go smoothly so that they can acquire new users and customers. However, this can lead to frustration when customers install the theme and find out the that it is actually quite challenging to replicate the demo. This has been a pain …
Q&A with WPMU DEV CEO & Co-Founder James Farmer
Last month we launched our second annual Plugin Madness competition, where we pit 64 plugins against each other. Voted on by the community, this year’s victor was none other than WPMU DEV’s Smush Image Compression. Torque spoke with CEO and Co-founder of WPMU DEV, James Farmer, about his WordPress journey, what he’s learned along the way, …
The Future Of WordPress In 2017
WordPress has come a long way since its 2003 inception as a nascent blogging platform, forked from b2/cafelog. Now a full-fledged CMS, WordPress enjoys a significant market share, powering 26.9% of the world’s websites all told, and almost 60% of the websites built using a known CMS. As the web has evolved, so has WordPress …
WordPress Vs. Tumblr – Which One Is Right For You?
WordPress isn’t the only free publishing platform out there. By now, anyone who wants to start publishing online has many different platforms to choose from. In the past, we have already looked into how Medium and Joomla compare to the WordPress platform. It’s about time we turned to another competitor: Tumblr. The WordPress vs Tumblr duel is …
44 of the Best SEO Tools and SEO WordPress Plugins of 2016
Search engine optimization is a complex topic involving many different disciplines. No wonder we have written extensively on this topic before, for example here, here, here and here. Especially website owners who take care of SEO themselves can use all the help they can get and do well using all the tools at their disposal. …
How WordCamp Denver Connected The Community
Last weekend, WordPressers met at the SpringHill Suites Denver Downtown Auraria Campus Hotel & Hospitality Learning Center in the Mile High City for WordCamp Denver. It was two days chock full of networking, speakers, and cider. The organizers did a great job of adding new elements to the “typical” WordCamp format. There was a lot …
Wix Uses WordPress Code, Violates GPL
Microsoft vs. Apple, Oracle vs. Salesforce, Comcast vs. Verizon — rivalry is just a natural part of growth in the tech world. The recent controversy between WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and Wix co-founder Avashai Abrahami is no exception. On Friday, Mullenweg alleged that the Wix application is built using stolen code, highlighting the similarities between …
Why Let’s Encrypt Has Completely Changed The SSL Landscape
Though WordPress is increasingly bulletproof out of the box, security is a topic that never really goes away for users. It’s not just the platform itself that you have to worry about, there’s also a much wider world out there full of potentially bad actors with a vested interest in breaking down your digital door. …
A Beginner’s Guide to Load Testing WordPress Sites
Though WordPress is an increasingly bulletproof solution out of the box, there’s a huge difference between merrily clicking around in a local development environment, and how your site actually performs when people start hammering your servers for real. The time to start worrying about how your site will perform is well before it goes live, rather …
