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Share Your WordPress Story For A Chance To Win A Trip To WCUS 2016

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July 18, 2016

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Since its birth, Torque has been a publication for the community by the community —  as such, we feature a collection of content from WordPress developers, designers, and enthusiasts on topics from plugins and themes to dev-tutorials and beyond. This month, Torque celebrates its third birthday. To commemorate the occasion, we want you to share your WordPress story for a chance to win a trip to WordCamp US 2016, courtesy of Torque. To enter, submit a few paragraphs sharing how WordPress has had a positive impact on your life (rules and regulations). Share your story here Submissions will be accepted through July […]

Everything You Need To Know About Information Architecture

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July 15, 2016

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Information architecture (or IA) may sound as if it’s purely academic, but it’s actually quite practical. How you present the content you’re publishing on your site, together with the paths you lay out for your users to find and consume that content, are essential to the user experience. In this article, we take a broad look at IA, and offer some practical advice to help you build a better WordPress site. What Is Information Architecture? Essentially, IA is the science of figuring out what you want your site to do and then constructing a blueprint before you dive in and […]

“You’re Home” – Report from WordCamp Europe 2016 In Vienna

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July 13, 2016

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Last month Austria’s capital saw a large influx of inhabitants. Thousands of people converged in the museum quarter of Vienna. The thing that brought them together: WordPress. WordCamp Europe 2016 drew in a crowd of more than 2,000 attendees. I was also there for my second WordCamp ever and my first WordCamp Europe. My first experience with WordCamp Berlin 2015 had really turned me on to these events. So, when the extra batch of tickets came on sale for WordCamp EU (after the event had already sold out), I did my darndest to be among the recipients. Good thing that I […]

How To Combine Posts From Multiple WordPress Sites Using The REST API

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July 12, 2016

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In my last article for Torque, I showed you how to merge multiple sources into one blog post on a static HTML site using the REST API and JavaScript. This time, I will show you how to accomplish something similar using PHP. The last article was written to work on any type of site. In the example, I used a simple HTML site I created for my business. I then used multiple WordPress sites to source content using WordPress REST API. To combine them, I used JavaScript because that side did not use a server-side language like PHP that could […]

Developing A REST API App – Part 3: Choosing And Testing A Front End Solution

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July 11, 2016

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So far in our series, we’ve loaded some data into WordPress to play with and made sure we can access it via the REST API. Along the way, we’ve introduced a number of core concepts and simple tools you can use to start experimenting yourself, even if you’re not a tech whizz. This time around, it’s time to consider how we might go about handling things on the front end. We need a nice framework we can use to pull data out of WordPress via the REST API and display it. It’s almost certainly going to involve a JavaScript-powered solution. But which […]

How To Combine Posts From Multiple WordPress Sites Using The REST API

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July 8, 2016

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The WordPress REST API gives you the ability to combine content from multiple sites. This is extremely helpful as using more than one CMS to serve content to one site can solve a lot of problems. For example, you could solve scaling problems by dedicating one WordPress install to each post type. Or, if your organization has many sites, you can use the REST API to share content between totally separate sites. Recently I faced the challenge of building a site to bring together all of the different brands in my company. We intended to keep each brand on their […]

5 Challenges Plaguing The WordPress Security Ecosystem

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July 6, 2016

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Last month, more than 2,000 attendees from around the world came together in Vienna at WordCamp Europe to share their affinity for WordPress. As I sat there, sweating profusely and sharing ideas and thoughts with attendees, it hit me that we still have a long way to go with security in the community. I spent the next couple of days thinking through it and decided to share my takeaways in an open forum. This article highlights five issues I believe to be plaguing the WordPress security community and provides some thoughts on how we can work together to overcome them. These thoughts come from […]

Developing A REST API App – Part 2: Adding And Testing Our Data

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July 5, 2016

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Following on from our introductory article, it’s now time to get down to business in our REST API series and start actually building the foundations of our eventual app. We’ll kick things off by getting some core data into a local install of WordPress, and then start exploring some background concepts and the general set of options available to us. We’ll do this by testing the basic reading and writing functionality of the REST API with the help of some handy tools which make it easy for non-technical users to follow along. By the end of this session, we should […]

WP Engine’s PHP Compatibility Checker Plugin Available For Download

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July 1, 2016

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PHP Compatibility Checker, a plugin that verifies PHP 7 compatibility on WordPress websites, is available for download from the WordPress Plugin Repository. The checker can be used to test if an existing codebase is compatible when upgrading to PHP 7. It was developed by WP Engine, who has been testing and evaluating PHP 7 for its customers since its official release in December 2015. “During our work with PHP 7 we developed a tool to help us evaluate compatibility, the ‘PHP Compatibility Checker’ plugin, which we are making available to everyone, to help drive adoption of PHP 7 and bring the promise of dramatically faster WordPress […]

How To Survive Organizing Your First WordCamp

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June 29, 2016

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WordCamp season is upon us, and it seems like there’s another one every week. While many of us have attended a number of WordCamps throughout the years, not as many have had a hand at being a WordCamp organizer. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes long before even a venue is chosen. This article takes a look at some of the challenges faced by WordCamp organizers and advises how to grapple with them. Michelle Schulp is no stranger to WordCamps. She was an organizing committee member of WordCamp Chicago in 2012, co-lead in 2013, and lead […]

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