The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Shawn Hooper and David Bisset about social media, owning your own content, and turning your WordPress site into an aggregator of your all your social networks. We start off talking about Shawn’s Twitter-Archive-To-WP tool. Then we discuss davidbisset.social, which was built with WordPress and shows a chronological version of all of David’s social media posts. I also mentioned a tool called Tweetgrab, which allows you to convert any existing Twitter embeds on your WordPress site into static images with properly formatted […]

Every year, WordPress releases a new theme to serve as its default theme — the one that comes with every fresh WordPress installation. As we head into 2023, WordPress has released their latest theme offering into the world, Twenty Twenty-Three, which we will review here. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg introduced Twenty Twenty Three in his State of the Word address. This theme aims to be fast, lightweight, and accessible, with a focus on simplicity and easy customization. In other words, it’s the perfect blank canvas for your next WordPress project. But what sets it apart from previous years? An intense […]

In the past, advertising and affiliate marketing were the best ways to monetize a website. However, these tactics can be time-consuming and disrupt the user experience (UX). As an alternative, you may want to create a membership site to earn income online. Still, you might now know where to begin. Fortunately, it’s easy to create a paid membership site with the right tools. Then, you can configure memberships in WordPress, restrict access to specific pages, and sell subscriptions. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at membership websites and how they work. Then, we’ll discuss what you need to […]

If you publish long-form articles on your blog, you’ll want to provide a quick way for readers to navigate to different sections of the post. Creating a table of contents can help you achieve this, but you might not know how to get started.  Fortunately, WordPress makes it easy to add tables of contents to your posts. For instance, you can use a dedicated plugin or create your tables manually in the Block Editor – no coding knowledge required! In this post, we’ll take a closer look at tables of contents and discuss the benefits of using them in your […]

On this episode of Press This, we’re talking about Headless WordPress, GraphQL, and Faust.js. How these tools can be used together and what sort of cost could be associated with Headless WordPress. We’re gonna kind of try to dive in deep with this, and I’ve got two great guests joining me today, I’ve got Jason Bahl, a principal software engineer at WP Engine based in Denver, Colorado, where he maintains WPGraphQL. And we’ve got Chris Wiegman, an engineering manager working on Faust.js.

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Talisha Lewallen about CertifyWP, a new non-profit that aims to create a credentialing process for WordPress. Due to a bad storm here in San Francisco, our interview gets cut short after about 25 minutes, but I think we managed to cover a lot in that time. Huge thanks to Talisha for her time. We didn’t get a chance to talk about WP Connects, but that’s another project Talisha is working on that aims to provide WordPress training to veterans to offer […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode I talk with Zack Katz, the Project Lead and Developer at GravityKit. We’ll talk about what’s new in Gravity Forms 2.7, whats coming, and how Zack is using aspects of improv comedy to help inspire his work. We also talk about Trusted Login, a new tool Zack built that makes it easier for customer support teams to request credentials to their customer’s websites. Join us each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for our weekly WordPress livestreams.

If you’re a WordPress developer or designer, the struggle to find work can feel overwhelming. Not to mention neverending. The good news is that there are ways to get your WordPress skills in front of those who need it most. In fact, a good way to do this is to apply to ads on WordPress job boards. Doing so can help you land a high-quality client. Of course, you have to know where to look first. That’s what we aim to solve here today. We’ve rounded up some of the best job boards for finding WordPress work currently available. So […]

If you sell or create premium content on your WordPress website, you might be searching for different ways to make it more enticing for your audience. It can be challenging to come up with innovative methods to improve user experience (UX) and keep visitors coming back.  Fortunately, you can increase user engagement by implementing drip content on your website. When you use this strategy, you release your material little by little instead of all at once. That way, your members will be drawn to return in order to access the next piece of content you make available.  In this article, […]

As we move into 2023, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the latest web design trends. Why? Well, for one, it’ll help your website stay relevant and engaging for users. Plus, keeping on top of trends shows that you’re invested in your website and are willing to put in the work to keep it looking its best. Besides, allowing your site to fall behind the times can make it look dated and out-of-touch. That’s not exactly the impression you want to give to potential customers or clients. What follows is our in-depth examination of some of the most popular web […]