Torque Toons

Headless WordPress may sound scary at first, but it’s really not that bad.

Did you know The San Diego Zoo is only an 8 minute drive from this year’s WordCamp US location? The San Diego Zoo is one of three zoos in the United States that has giant pandas. That got me thinking about a Wapuu/giant panda mashup.

I’m so excited about WordCamp US in September. Like many of you, I haven’t been to a WordCamp in years, so I thought I’d share some travel advice for San Diego. If you’d like some better travel advice, we’d recommend this WCUS travel thread by @GoGinaMarie.

Generative text-to-image tools, like Dalle-2 and Midjourney, are all the rage this summer. I used an AI tool called Craiyon to generate an image based on the prompt “WordPress mascot” and then redrew the results in a more consistent style. Here are the results:

Happy Spring. WordPress 6.0 is almost here!

Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter yesterday. So far he’s discussed enabling “long form Tweets”, Open Sourcing the algorithm, and adding an edit button.

Hey y’all, Happy Holidays! Have a great time with your family and friends this year. Thanks for reading Torque!

We are so excited about this weekend’s Contribute2WP event and hope you are too. If so, take the pledge here!

Another WordCamp Europe has come and gone. We had a great time this year and drew this quick sketch during the livestream with Matt Mullenweg and Matías Ventura.

We had a great time at this year’s WordCamp Europe. The conference was virtual, but we did our best to make it feel like we were in Porto.