Editor’s Note: WooCommerce and Advanced Custom Fields go head to head this week in Torque’s 2016 Plugin Madness championship round. Go to pluginmadness.com to vote now! The winner will be announced on April 12. The WordPress platform is being used for many things, from blogging to business websites to portfolio sites and more. Even famous brands, celebrities and companies power their online presences with WordPress. However, one area where the platform also excels but that we don’t talk about that often is ecommerce–WordPress can easily be used to power online shops and there are several high-quality solutions to do so. The most well-known and […]
Getting Started With JavaScript (And How It Compares to PHP)
JavaScript has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. There’s a growing need for WordPress developers to “learn JavaScript deeply.” However, making the switch from PHP can seem overwhelming at first glance. In our opinion, even if PHP is your only programming language, you should find the switch to JavaScript comfortable enough to begin hacking away at a few scripts in no time. Once you understand how the basic building blocks of JavaScript are put together, you’ll have a solid grounding that will enable you to explore the more complex aspects of the language. In this […]
How To Combine Posts From Multiple WordPress Sites Using The REST API
In my last article for Torque, I showed you how to merge multiple sources into one blog post on a static HTML site using the REST API and JavaScript. This time, I will show you how to accomplish something similar using PHP. The last article was written to work on any type of site. In the example, I used a simple HTML site I created for my business. I then used multiple WordPress sites to source content using WordPress REST API. To combine them, I used JavaScript because that side did not use a server-side language like PHP that could […]
How To Combine Posts From Multiple WordPress Sites Using The REST API
The WordPress REST API gives you the ability to combine content from multiple sites. This is extremely helpful as using more than one CMS to serve content to one site can solve a lot of problems. For example, you could solve scaling problems by dedicating one WordPress install to each post type. Or, if your organization has many sites, you can use the REST API to share content between totally separate sites. Recently I faced the challenge of building a site to bring together all of the different brands in my company. We intended to keep each brand on their […]
Press This Podcast: When is it your site’s fault vs. your host’s fault with Chris Wiegman
Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogel Paul, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter […]
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