The court floor has been mopped, the gatorade coolers are empty, and the announcer has gone home. That can only mean one thing, Plugin Madness has officially come to a close! Congratulations to our 2023 Plugin Madness winner, Advanced Custom Fields! ACF was the very first Plugin Madness winner in 2016, and it has come back to take the crown again seven years later. ACF knocked out huge contenders such as Yoast, former Plugin Madness Champion Smush, and WooCommerce to come out on top. Wow! We are thrilled and grateful that ACF has won this year’s Plugin Madness. On behalf […]

Today’s guest is Bobby King, the Chief Operating Officer at the White Label Agency. The White Label Agency is a WordPress agency that specializes in partnering with other digital agencies, and we are gonna talk about when and why agencies should consider partnering up on WordPress projects.

Studying examples of hyperlink design is more significant than you would think. Links are what turn the Internet into “the web” and connect otherwise unrelated pages and websites to each other. They also lead visitors around your site, allow them to discover more of it, and dive deeper into the topics they are interested in. Plus, as backlinks, hyperlinks are desired as an SEO signal. In short, without links, websites and the Internet wouldn’t be what they are. We have already talked about how to style links using CSS in a past article. However, just because you know how to […]

If you’re launching a business website or looking for a hosting provider, chances are you’ve run into Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates. These certificates use encryption to help secure websites. However, you might be wondering how much it’s going to cost you and if you should even invest in one. Fortunately, there are trusted Certificate Authorities (CA) that offer both free and premium SSL solutions. Even better, some quality web hosting providers will manage your SSL certificate for you. In this post, we’ll explain how SSL certificates work. Then, we’ll look at the cost of different SSL certificates offered by […]

This week, popular plugin Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), announced the release of version 6.1.  This update marks a huge win for functionality of the plugin and WordPress development as a whole. Site developers can now register custom post types and custom taxonomies from within the plugin. Having the functionality directly within the ACF dashboard not only saves time, it cuts down on the number of plugins needed to power a site. This exciting update significantly expands the features of both the free version and ACF PRO. All users can enjoy this historic new phase of ACF. Let’s dive into the […]

Translating a website is not a small task. Depending on the size of the site, the process can take anywhere from hours to weeks or even months. That’s without factoring in the technical aspects of translation, such as how to guide users to translated pages. Fortunately, with WordPress, translating websites is much simpler from a technical standpoint. That’s because translation plugins for WordPress enable you to easily create new versions of your site in other languages. Plus, most plugins will take care of technical elements like language switchers. In this article, we’ll discuss how translation plugins work and why you […]

In this post, I will review the WordPress block editor, that has found its way into the platform as part of the Gutenberg project. It has been around for four years and was one of the most controversial changes to ever happen to WordPress. Now that it has had time to mature and because it is a topic laden with such emotions, I thought it would be a good idea for me to weigh in. As a professional WordPress blogger, I spend all day every day not only writing in WordPress but also testing every aspect of the platform over […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode, we talked with Aurooba Ahmed, a Software Developer specializing in WordPress and the co-host of the viewSource podcast. We talked about what’s Style Books and other new features in WordPress 6.2. We also talked about the lessons Aurooba has learned will doing her daily podcast project. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.

As an agency or plugin developer, there are many times when running customer support could be made so much easier if you had access to your customer’s dashboard. But there’s obviously a lot of concerning issues about asking for that sort of access and how it could be done. That’s why today we’re gonna be talking with Zack Katz.

While using custom web fonts is a great way to make your site more unique and distinguish your branding, it can also come with certain problems — from privacy to performance. The solution: host your fonts locally on your WordPress website instead. To help you do so, in this post, we will tell you everything you need to know about this topic. Below, we discuss why it’s a good idea to host fonts locally in WordPress in the first place and then give you a rundown of code and no-code solutions to make it happen in both classic themes and […]