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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode, we talk with Brian Gardner about the Frost theme for WordPress. Find out about Brian’s experience submitting the theme to the WordPress theme repository and why he waited for WordPress 6.2 before releasing this new version of the Frost theme. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode, we talked with Olivia Bisset about her experience as a hackathon organizer and how WordPress can get more young users involved. Olivia is an audiovisual editor over at Post Status who is also getting her Computer Science Degree at the University of Florida. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. WordPress 6.2 is here and it’s full of great new features. In this video, we talk with Nick Diego about what makes this version so special. Nick is a WordPress Core contributor who is very passionate about the Full Site Editor. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode, we talked with Aurooba Ahmed, a Software Developer specializing in WordPress and the co-host of the viewSource podcast. We talked about what’s Style Books and other new features in WordPress 6.2. We also talked about the lessons Aurooba has learned will doing her daily podcast project. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode, we talked with Josepha Haden Chomphosy, the Executive Director of the WordPress project, about WordPress’s 20th anniversary, the upcoming release of WordPress 6.2, Hot Ones hot sauce, and much more. It was a great conversation and we hope you enjoy it too. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Brian Coords, a WordPress developer and co-host of the viewSource podcast. We talk about the viewSource, a WordPress-themed podcast Brian runs with Aurooba Ahmed. Then we switch gears to talk about Brian’s recent interest with GitHub’s CoPilot. On the final segment of the show, Brian and Doc speculate on how SEO and site discovery could change if AI chat results become the dominating result in Google searches. We’ve talked a lot about AI and WordPress on the Social Hour lately, including […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with James LePage, the Founder of CodeWP, an AI code generator for WordPress. James tells us about his time running a WordPress agency and how it led to him building a tool that uses AI to generate WordPress snippets. We discuss how CodeWP trained its data, how it can be used, some of the other AI tools designed for WordPress users, and a deep dive into some of the history behind ChatGPT and GPT3. We’ve talked a lot about AI and WordPress […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Nyasha Green, an Editorial Director at MasterWP, and Chris Wiegman, a Manager of Engineering at WP Engine, about the pros and cons of AI. We talk about about some WordPress plugins that are powered by AI, as well as a few recent lawsuits in the space. It was a lively conversation with a lot of great comments in the chat. Here’s a list of topics mentioned during the show: Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and […]