Gather around the campfire as we tell you spooky stories about plugins gone wrong and other WordPress horror stories. Chris Weigman starts us off with the tale of the time he accidentally crashed 20,000 websites, then Derek Ashauer shares a tale involving custom ticket software and Blink182.
How to Create a WordPress Block Theme (In 3 Steps)
As a WordPress beginner, you may have avoided building custom themes in the recent past, thinking it required a complicated coding process. Now you can customize your entire website with Full Site Editing (FSE), but there’s still the issue of exporting your custom designs. Fortunately, you can easily create a block theme with the Create Block Theme plugin. After customizing your theme with the Site Editor, you can export it as a custom block theme. Then, you can install it on other websites instead of having to rebuild your design from scratch. In this post, we’ll explain what a block […]
Torque Social Hour: Using AI to Generate WordPress Images
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode I talk with Josh Dailey and Aaron Edwards, the founders of Infinite Uploads, about their new AI generative art tool for WordPress. Imajinn is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily generate images by adding a text prompt. It’s a fun tool to play with and really works well as a Gutenberg plugin. During this episode we got to see plenty of demos of the plugin in action, plus hear about some more features in the works. Be sure to check out Jeff […]
Web3 and WordPress: What to Expect From the Future (+Plugins)
Web3 is a buzzword that you can hear on many corners of the Internet these days, including the WordPress sphere. Rumor has it that it will upend how we do business on the and change the Internet itself. Since WordPress is an integral part of the web (*cough* 40+% market share *cough*). Therefore, the question is less if and more how it will impact our favorite CMS. There was even a talk on this very topic by Dave Lockie at WCEU 2022. To prepare for how Web3 will impact WordPress and to get ready for it in general, we will […]
Spark Happiness: The Marie Kondo Guide to Cleaning Up Your Website
Tired of looking at your unkempt website? Of seeing it full of clutter and chaos, lowering your mood, and reducing your quality of life? Do you abhor the rows of post drafts, piles of spam comments, and a jumble of dashboard widgets that greet you every time you log on? Sounds like it’s time for a website clean up! Introducing the revolutionary Marie Kondo (-inspired) system for bringing order to your WordPress website. With the KonMari (-esque) guide for uncluttering your web presence, you, too, can have a peaceful environment to work, create content, and grow your business. Are you […]

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