Last year, Matt Mullenweg encouraged developers to “Learn JavaScript deeply.” He said, and I agree that future of WordPress will use JavaScript-driven interfaces powered by the WordPress REST API. Using JavaScript in conjunction with the REST API makes for a great experience for both the developer and end user, which is why every WordPress developer should have some understanding of JavaScript. For this vision to be a reality, that can’t just apply to WordPress core. Plugins and themes will need to deliver a similar experience. A great JavaScript framework is the fastest and most scalable way to deliver that in […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Matt’s First Quarter Check-in
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. A quick breakdown of Matt Mullenweg’s recent “First Quarter Check-In” on WordPress.org. You can also watch our early review of the new Gutenberg editor here. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. We are 7 months away from The State of The WordPress speech at WordCamp US, but Matt Mullenweg dropped a little glimpse of what’s happening so far in a recent blog post titled “First […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Collaborative Editing Coming to WordPress
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. According to a recent blog post by Matt Mullenweg, we may see collaborative editing tools in an upcoming version of WordPress. Love WordPress News but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop. On last week’s episode, we talked about a new Chrome plugin that allows you to easily import Google Docs into the WordPress editor. A task which sounds easy, but usually ends up in a lot of frustration. Writing […]
How To Start A Weekly Newsletter
Dozens upon dozens of articles are published every week in any given niche. It’s almost impossible to keep up with this much content, making a weekly newsletter filled with a collection of the best and latest articles a highly useful resource. Let’s go over a few different ways to create and publish a newsletter of this kind. Publishing A Weekly Newsletter Inside Of WordPress With WP RSS Aggregator WP RSS Aggregator is one of the most popular RSS aggregators available for WordPress. You can use the premium Feed to Post add-on available for this plugin in combination with the MailPoet […]
Plugin Madness: The Semi-Finalists Speak
Last month, we pit the 64 most popular WordPress plugins against each other in Torque’s 2016 Plugin Madness. We have witnessed several upsets along the way, and some of WordPress’s most beloved plugins, like SEO by Yoast, Akismet, and Jetpack by WordPress.com, have met defeat. We have received more than 15,000 votes so far, and, with only a few weeks left in the competition, it’s been narrowed to just four plugins — The Events Calendar, WooCommerce, Advanced Custom Fields, and Wordfence Security. We reached out to our semi-finalists to see if they had any advice for creating successful plugins and […]

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