After three difficult years, WordCamp Asia is happening! The flagship event was scheduled for February of 2020 but had to be canceled due to the pandemic. This was a painful decision for the organizers who had put so much volunteer time into organizing such a ground-breaking event. However, nothing can dampen the spirit of the WordPress community who banded together to make it happen this year. Same city, same venue, same great people. The conference runs from February 17-19 in Bangkok, Thailand. If you were unable to secure a ticket before they sold out in only 24 hours, never fear. […]

If you’re like most people running a business, you probably don’t have a lot of time to waste. The last thing you want to do is spend months creating a product or service that no one wants to buy. So how do you know if your idea is even worth pursuing? The answer: properly define your target audience. Defining and understanding who you are creating something for is essential for any business owner. But figuring out how to go about doing that might seem a tad confusing at first. Thankfully, we’ve gathered a variety of tips about how to define a […]

Tie up your Jordans, put on your compression sleeve, and stretch out your hamstrings because it is time for Plugin Madness. Now in its eighth year, this bracket-style competition pits the best 64 WordPress plugins against each other to find the very best one. But first, we need you! To find our contenders we’re turning to the experts, the WordPress community, for Plugin Madness nominations. We want to find the hidden gems. Tell us about the plugins that solve an annoying problem, that make life easier, or that just work really well. Plugins will be sorted into four categories; Marketing, […]

Since the acquisition and continued dismantling of Twitter by a certain billionaire, an increasing number of people are interested in learning how to use Mastodon, one of Twitter’s more popular competitors. How popular? Well, the news recently dropped that Twitter now officially blocks links to Mastodon (and other social platforms) and flags them as malware. So, if Twitter’s new owner takes Mastodon seriously, maybe the rest of us should as well? All snark aside, after users started quitting Twitter in droves and looking for a new home, Mastodon is one of the biggest winners of this exodus. If, like me, […]

With over 905 billion in online sales in 2022, it’s clear that eCommerce is the new norm. If you’ve launched a website for your store, you’re already on the right track. However, finding the right eCommerce strategies for your business can be tricky, and it can be challenging to secure a steady flow of customers. Fortunately, when you leverage information gained from eCommerce analytics, you can refine your strategy to maximize your profits. You can learn a lot from just a few simple data points, from tracking cart abandonment to successful conversions. In this guide, we’ll introduce you to the […]

How can you keep readers on your site longer? Many WordPress sites use plugins like Contextly to show readers other relevant posts they might enjoy reading. In this episode of Press This, we talk with Ryan Single, the founder of Contextly, about how recommendation systems can keep new visitors on your site longer by showing them relevant content. Hear some of the lessons that Ryan has learned about site stickiness and find out more about new Contextly features currently available in the plugin.

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Nyasha Green, an Editorial Director at MasterWP, and Chris Wiegman, a Manager of Engineering at WP Engine, about the pros and cons of AI. We talk about about some WordPress plugins that are powered by AI, as well as a few recent lawsuits in the space. It was a lively conversation with a lot of great comments in the chat. Here’s a list of topics mentioned during the show: Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and […]

Americaneagle.com WordPress Practice Director Ellis LaMay shares his ideas on how Large Language Models like ChatGPT can be used to speed up workflow or help develop a WordPress site.

Mark discusses using AI to create customized placeholder text that developers can use when showing a site to a new client. Or using AI to help inspire new design ideas. If you are looking for ideas on how to integrate AI into your WordPress business, this is a great episode for you.

What new trends can we expect to emerge in blogging in 2023? While blog writing has been around for a long time, and its basic premise doesn’t change much (put words on screen, publish), it does go through developments and fads. Some of them come and go, others stick around for longer or become a permanent fixture of the medium. To make sure you stay up to date on what’s going on in the blogging game, in this post, we will examine five of the trends you can expect to encounter this year. Knowing this allows you to stay current […]

The Gutenberg editor has completely changed how we build websites and web pages with WordPress. It allows users to create content and layouts piece by piece and comes with many tools to do so. In this post, we want to look at some of the best blocks Gutenberg has to offer for that purpose. The WordPress editor is a complex piece of software. It’s easy to overlook some of the features of Gutenberg, including the many blocks it comes with. Consequently, there might be some that you have no idea exist but that could seriously improve your workflow and make […]