The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. On this episode, we talk with Anthony Burchell and Emily Schiola about WordPress’s 20th anniversary. We also talk about the releases of the 6.2.1 security patch, and the 6.2.2 patch that happened 5 days later. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.
Press This: New Features in ACF 6.1
Advanced Custom Fields is a popular plugin designed to enable WordPress developers to have more control over their custom field data. And it’s also a two time Plugin Madness winner. Recently Advanced Custom Fields released version 6.1. To talk about these new features in ACF 6.1, we’re joined by Iain Poulson.
Is WordPress Really Free? The Costs of Running a WordPress Site
Is WordPress really free? One of the reasons the platform is the most widely used CMS in the world is that it’s open source. That means, anyone can use it for any purpose, without paying an upfront licensing fee. This fact has enabled hundreds of thousands of people with no development skills to run their own website. But does that mean every website built with WordPress is free? No. While you can use the software powering it without paying a dime, there are still costs involved with getting a site online, and promoting it. For that reason, in this post, […]
Press This: Rebranding in Public
Changing your company’s name after many years of building up trust and recognition can always be tricky. If your company’s growing successfully, though, sometimes you might have outgrown what the original mission was, and it might be time to reconsider a rebrand. And that’s what we’re gonna be talking about today. Our guest is Devin Walker, a general manager at StellarWP, and the co-creator of GiveWP.
Will AI Replace Us All? (How I Tried to Get ChatGPT to Do My Job)
Thanks to ChatGPT, artificial intelligence has been allover the news as of late. Many people are fascinated by the chatbot’s ability to communicate, relay information, and even write poetry. At the same time, it raises the old question whether AI will replace us all in the near future. Seriously, look at Google. Pretty much all its autosuggestions are of the “will AI replace X” nature. After being talked about as the next big thing for years, it seems like artificial intelligence has finally arrived in the mainstream — and very suddenly. Does this mean the great labor displacement that experts […]
No Comments