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WordPress is growing in size and stature at an ever-increasing rate. In fact, the headline figures show that around a quarter of the web is powered by our favorite CMS. But, why are people drawn to WordPress? Who are its users? Today I want to look specifically at one of the most prominent groups of WordPress users: entrepreneurs. Why are aspiring money-makers, perhaps more than any other group, choosing to power their business with WordPress? Here are five reasons why WordPress and entrepreneurs are a perfect fit. 1. Like-minded people There’s a well-known saying: “like attracts like”; this certainly applies here. WordPress […]

“Plugged in” is a reoccurring feature on Torque that aims to take a closer look at different plugins each week. If you have any suggestions for plugins you’d like to see reviewed, write us at [email protected]. When WordPress users think of caching, W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache usually spring to mind. These plugins have a combined 11.7 million downloads and are the go-to caching plugins for most of us. That’s not to say they’re perfect, though. In fact, all caching solutions suffer from one specific caching blind spot: caching pages for logged in WordPress users. In March, Cache Buddy was […]

So, you wanna be an online marketer? Build websites, rake in traffic, make money, am I right? Yet, maybe you are not sure where to start. Is there a course you can sign up for? Will your local college be able to help? Well, quick question: Do you know anyone who has a university degree in digital marketing? How about WordPress? How about how to run a website? Coming up empty? Me too. But how then does anyone learn online marketing? How do you get educated on how to run a successful website? Is there a secret school somewhere that […]

I know this is probably going to upset, but this is the best way to save an input from a form to a post meta field in WordPress:  update_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_slug_number_field’, $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ] ); And yes, on its own that line of code is a terrible, no good idea. Most likely, you mentally rewrote it to something like this: if ( isset( $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ] ) && 0 < absint( $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ] ) ) {   update_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_slug_number_field’, (int) $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ]  ); } Before I discuss how to make that first line of code acceptable, I […]

Is there a way to start an article of this kind without the stereotypical “they say a picture is worth a thousand words” kind of thing? I guess not. Well, at least I snuck it in without going for it directly. Anyway, there’s no denying that visuals are pretty important when it comes to web content. Being confronted with a full page of uninterrupted text can turn away even the most promising prospect. And that is because humans are highly visual creatures. In fact according to this graphic, visual information is processed 60.000 times faster within the human brain than […]