Last month we launched our second annual Plugin Madness competition, where we pit 64 plugins against each other. Voted on by the community, this year’s victor was none other than WPMU DEV’s Smush Image Compression. Torque spoke with CEO and Co-founder of WPMU DEV, James Farmer, about his WordPress journey, what he’s learned along the way, and more. Torque: Tell us your WordPress story. How did you first get involved? How was WPMU DEV founded? Farmer: Well, it’s been a long and winding road. There are a couple of ways you can approach it, either a bit more of a regular […]
Revisiting Torque’s Top 10 Most Popular Articles
Last week, Torque turned two! Since our launch in 2013, Torque’s mission has been to offer a forum for WordPress news and views and be a resource for the growing and vibrant WordPress community. In just two years, we’ve published more than 1,000 posts, and have featured pieces from more than 50 contributors. From plugins and themes, to APIs and best practices, Torque’s content has run the gamut. To commemorate this joyous milestone, we decided it’d be fun to take a look at the 10 most popular stories in Torque’s first two years! These stories provide a solid snapshot of […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: A WordPress “Skill” for Amazon’s Alexa
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. This week we talk about Blog Helper, a cool Alexa app by Christopher Finke that allows you to interact with your WordPress site via voice commands. Love WordPress news, but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop! Ever since it’s release, people have been creating weird and wonderful apps for Amazon’s Alexa device. But one of the newest Alexa apps might be of particular interest to WordPressers. Christopher Finke, an […]
Interview With Kyle Maurer, Co-founder Of WordCrash.net
WordPress events are invaluable to the success of WordPress and its community. They’re educational, inspiring, and provide attendees an opportunity to have meaningful face-to-face conversations with like-minded individuals. Despite the relative affordability of tickets, there are several other costs to consider when attending a WordCamp — travel and accommodations being two of the most notable costs. WordCrash.net is a new service that helps cut the costs of attending a WordCamp and build relationships with others in the WordPress community by allowing “traveling WordPressers to view a list of friendly folks across the globe who are willing to offer free accommodations and […]
Our Heads Were in the Cloud Yesterday at MarketplaceLIVE
The Torque team ducked out of our workspace for a bit yesterday to attend Telx’s MarketplaceLIVE, a cloud computing conference boasting the tagline “Enhancing Connectivity Through Insight.” With over 600 registered attendees, the event was put on by leading interconnection and data center provider Telx and held at the beautiful Nob Hill Masonic Center. Dozens of exhibitors from all corners of the cloud computing ecosystem came out to share their visions and interact with their community. The first booth we walked up to was that of security company Black Lotus, which had the most striking design (white on black instead of […]
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