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Are you planning your next website update? WordPress has hundreds of thousands of themes you can download for free. It can be hard to find the perfect one. You need something responsive, engaging, and easy to use. How do you know you are making the best choice of WordPress theme for your company? We’ve compiled some tips to make sure you download a theme that will take you into 2019 and beyond. Minimum Requirements for 2019 There are some considerations that you must address. Let’s go through them right now. Gutenberg Before settling on a design for your WordPress site, […]

In my last post for Torque, I wrote about how WordPress with the new Gutenberg editor uses React. I also gave my opinion on if WordPress developers need to learn React. While you do not need to know React to create Gutenberg blocks, I laid out a few reasons why it might make sense for you to do so. If those reasons made sense for you, good news, this is a post to get you started with React and its starting a new series of posts about using React for Gutenberg development. Before We Get Started In the first few […]

The Genesis Framework has changed the way themes are created and makes it easy and fast to build beautiful and professional looking websites. Now, the Genesis team at StudioPress is looking to expand on their vision and improve their product, and they want your help. If you use Genesis you’re invited to take part in the Genesis Community Survey, a set of a few short questions aimed at understanding the needs of the Genesis community and the ways they’re using the framework. If you have a friend or colleague who uses Genesis, please share the survey with them too! Questions […]

The new WordPress content editing system Gutenberg will be powering the WordPress post editor in WordPress 5.0. Gutenberg is a “block-based” editor. When creating content, everything is a block. If you have a post that is one paragraph, one header, and then two paragraphs, that’s four blocks. Gutenberg comes with a set of default “core” blocks — paragraph, header, recent posts, image, blockquote, etc. If you’re using Gutenberg to create content, you use those blocks or custom blocks that are provided by WordPress plugins you install on your site. Gutenberg is a JavaScript-driven interface. Specifically, it is built using Facebook’s […]

Creating button design guidelines might seem redundant. After all, you already know what website buttons look like, don’t you? So, do you really need help creating them? As common as buttons are, it should not be forgotten that they are a central part of web design with important functions: Buttons often make up the main call to action Buy buttons greatly influence revenue Email sign-up buttons help build your list Form submission buttons are important for lead generation Social buttons help share your content Because of that, in this post, we will give you a number of button design guidelines […]