One of the biggest changes to WordPress ever is coming soon. Are you ready? How can you prepare? Why is WordPress making this change anyway? These questions and many more have been flying around the WordPress space for nearly a year since the new Gutenberg editor was announced by Matt Mullenweg in Summer of 2017 and with good reason. Many developers have concerns, namely around backward compatibility. Read on to learn how Gutenberg will affect your existing site. Intro to Gutenberg For those who have not yet heard, Gutenberg is the nickname given to a new Editor for the WordPress […]
Advanced OOP For WordPress Pt. 4: Setting Up With WordPress Test Suite For Integration Testing
In my previous articles in this series, I showed how to structure a WordPress plugin using object-oriented PHP. Then I covered unit testing. Unit tests cover each component, totally isolated from all other parts of the system. Unit tests should not be concerned with how the object interacts with any dependencies including the database and WordPress. Instead, once we have unit tests, we use integration tests to cover the effects of our code on the environment it is in. In general, we use phpunit for both types of tests. We just use them differently. We can think of phpunit as […]
What Does the WordPress Community Think of the Gutenberg Editor? – A Review Roundup
The Gutenberg editor is one of the biggest changes coming to WordPress. But how does the community feel about it? In this Gutenberg editor review roundup we will aim to find out. Since Matt Mullenweg revealed Gutenberg at WCEU 2017, a lot has been written about it. Here on Torque alone we have a number of articles on the topic: What’s Next for WordPress: Why the Future is Great with Gutenberg Getting Ahead of Gutenberg How The REST API And Gutenberg Work Together What the Future of WordPress Development Looks Like With Gutenberg How to Test Your Plugins With the […]
Elementor vs. Thrive vs. Gutenberg – Page Speed Comparison
The advent of WordPress has pretty much ended all the hassles of creating beautiful websites, and page builders made the entire process easy for those without the gift of code. WordPress page builders are plugins that allow users to make edits in the page via a simple drag and drop method. Those, who don’t want to learn extensive single lines of code for creating websites, can use page builders that generate that code all by themselves. While page builders are a silver bullet to mitigating coding complexities, they can also be responsible for slowing down a website’s loading time and […]
Gutenberg is Here!
In January 2017, Matt Mullenweg announced the Gutenberg project. A project that would change the way people created websites and content in WordPress. After nearly two years, Gutenberg has been merged with core in WordPress 5.0. A long time coming The WISIWYG editor hasn’t had a massive update in over 15 years. Gutenberg introduces a block-based editing system. Developers can make custom blocks which will save time when creating posts. Designers can customize their sites even more than ever before. The idea is to make it easier for first-time users to get a handle on WordPress, and create beautiful sites […]
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