If you have a WordPress eCommerce site, then you’re probably using WooCommerce, the most popular eCommerce plugin. Powering 37 percent of all eCommerce sites, the plugin is so popular that it even warrants its own annual conference. The site boasts the plugin is “the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives you complete control to sell anything.” Because the plugin is so robust, it can be challenging to understand and effectively utilize all of its amazing features. In this post, we have compiled a comprehensive digest on WooCommerce, which includes all of our guides and articles related to the eCommerce plugin so […]
WordPress Plugins: How Many is Too Many?
There are tons of reasons why WordPress plugins are a necessity. They offer a ton of features and functionality that your site doesn’t have otherwise. With plugins, you can customize the site you’ve already built to better suit your needs and serve your visitors. But you’ve probably heard that having too many WordPress plugins on your website is bad. There are over 50,000 plugins to choose from, so it can easy to add a few too many to your pages. But how many plugins is too many? The short answer is that it depends on what your site needs. And […]
WordPress Community Shares Thoughts on Microsoft’s Open Source News
On Wednesday, S. Somasegar, the corporate vice president of the developer division at Microsoft, announced that Microsoft is opening up access to .NET and Visual Studio — a move that will lead to universal access of Microsoft’s industry-leading platform and tools. In the coming months Microsoft plans to continue to open source the full server-side .NET Core Stack: ASP.NET 5 down, the Core Runtime, and Framework, Somasegar said. In addition, the open source .NET will be expanded to run on Linux and Mac OS X in addition to Windows. As of Wednesday, several components of the core .NET framework have been released and […]
Torque Is Two, And There’s A Lot To Celebrate
Two years ago, to herald the commencement of WordCamp San Francisco 2013, we launched Torque! Our goal was clear: “to create a hub for community building and offer a forum for WordPress news.” From that day on, Torque set out to create community engagement and become a valuable resource for WordPressers globally. Today we are proud to celebrate Torque’s second birthday. It’s such an incredible milestone, and we’re eager to recap some of our accomplishments over the past two years! Content Torque’s content has evolved since 2013, but we have remained steadfast in our mission to be an indispensable online […]
Interview with SIDEKICK co-founder, Ben Fox, on sidekick.pro, future initiatives, and more
In January, SIDEKICK launched its new website sidekick.pro, as well as its new Composer tool — a tool that allows users to create WordPress walkthroughs, for free. The announcement came much later than originally anticipated — but has nonetheless been greeted with open arms. Torque reached out to Ben Fox, co-founder of SIDEKICK, to learn about the reasons for the delay of sidekick.pro, how the company plans to reach new users, its partnership with Go Daddy, and future initiatives. Why the delay Torque: What caused the delay for sidekick.pro? Ben Fox: SIDEKICK is a bootstrapped company, we have no outside investment (yet). This […]
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