In today’s economy, the ability to create is more important than ever. And the rise of the “creator economy” has made it easier for people with creative ideas to share them with the world, and get paid for them. But what is the creator economy, exactly? And perhaps more importantly, why should you care about it in the first place? And what on Earth does Web3 have to do with it? We’ll endeavor to answer all these questions and more in today’s exploration into the creator economy and how you might take advantage of it for yourself. The Creator Economy: […]

The court floor has been polished, the gatorade coolers have been filled, and the announcer has finished their vocal warm up. That can only mean one thing, Plugin Madness has officially begun! The community has chosen the very best 64 plugins out there and now it’s time to put them to the test. Who will have a slam dunk and who will foul out? We need you to come back every week to vote in the new round and keep your faves going. The schedule is as follows: Week 1 (64): Feb 27 Week 2 (32) March 6 Week 3 […]

On each episode of Press This, we pick a WordPress topic, but sometimes it’s nice to take a step back and look at some of the broader topics in our community. We call this our Word Around the Campfire editions of Press This. And I have two special guests joining me today to help cover WordPress News, Emily Schiola and Mike Davey.

After three difficult years of planning and re-planning, the first WordCamp Asia finally happened. WordPressers from all of the world traveled to beautiful Bangkok, Thailand for a weekend of learning and networking. This flagship conference was originally scheduled to happen in February of 2020 and was the first large-scale WordPress event to get canceled due to the pandemic. It was an ominous marker of things to come and the new world we would all encounter. Over the last three years, WordCamp organizers all over the world had to pivot, some moving fully online and others canceling altogether. Off the bat, […]

There are good arguments to customize many parts of WordPress — but the search results page? What reason could there possibly be to make changes to that? How could this page be any different? The truth is, the WordPress search results page isn’t natively very interesting. This gives you the chance to highlight the articles you want more eyes on and make the page a little more useful. I hereby, cordially, invite you to find out along with me. Just imagine, at the end of this post, we could both be smarter than we were before. Are you in? Why […]

So on today’s show, we’re gonna talk with Bryan Smith, the Principal Product Manager for Atlas eCommerce, about current trends in eCommerce and how decoupled WordPress is providing companies with more flexibility.

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Brian Coords, a WordPress developer and co-host of the viewSource podcast. We talk about the viewSource, a WordPress-themed podcast Brian runs with Aurooba Ahmed. Then we switch gears to talk about Brian’s recent interest with GitHub’s CoPilot. On the final segment of the show, Brian and Doc speculate on how SEO and site discovery could change if AI chat results become the dominating result in Google searches. We’ve talked a lot about AI and WordPress on the Social Hour lately, including […]

If you’re a digital entrepreneur, you’ve likely heard of dropshipping. It eliminates the middleman ‘distributor’ by outsourcing order fulfillment and delivery to let you make a semi-passive income. However, it can be difficult to turn a sizable profit using this business model. Fortunately, you can drastically increase your returns when you opt for high-ticket dropshipping products. From electronics to outdoor equipment, selling the right items for the right prices can make a huge difference. In this post, we’ll introduce you to high-ticket dropshipping. Then, we’ll share some of the best and most profitable niches and products that you may want […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with James LePage, the Founder of CodeWP, an AI code generator for WordPress. James tells us about his time running a WordPress agency and how it led to him building a tool that uses AI to generate WordPress snippets. We discuss how CodeWP trained its data, how it can be used, some of the other AI tools designed for WordPress users, and a deep dive into some of the history behind ChatGPT and GPT3. We’ve talked a lot about AI and WordPress […]