One of the more intriguing templates that come with most – if not all block themes – is the blank template. It gives website creators a lot of flexibility in creating a template from scratch to suit their content and layout objectives. Using the post blocks such as post title, post content, featured image, post author, and the others, it is possible to build a template that pulls existing content from your database to create any type of page. In this video I use the blank template to build a specialized single post template that is used when I want […]

Ideally, your website should meet user expectations. Slow loading times, broken links, or non-functional features can make your business look unprofessional. Furthermore, these issues can deter users and send them to your competitors. Fortunately, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) enables you to present a polished, professional, and credible image. This program monitors your website’s ecosystem and alerts you to potential application or software problems. As such, APM can help you fix issues before your audience sees them. In this post, we’ll discuss what APM is and why it’s beneficial to WordPress websites. Finally, we’ll discuss a few types of sites that […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news and events. It is week 3 of our annual Torque Social Hour tournament, where we pit 64 WordPress plugins in a bracketstyle competition. For this week’s episode we’ll be joined by special guests: Marius Jensen from Health Check Taco Verdonschot from Yoast SEO Tim Cantrell from Wordfence Remember to vote for your favorite plugins on https://pluginmadness.com Join us each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour.

Do you want to add recipe Schema Markup to your WordPress food blog?  By adding a recipe Schema Markup to your webpage, you can display beautiful recipe snippets on your posts and pages whenever it appears on search results.  Having information next to your recipe, like a beautiful picture of your recipe, the time needed to prepare it, star ratings, etc., makes it stand out. This encourages more people to click on it.  So it’s a powerful way to attract more leads and boost your website conversions. But that’s not it.  Schema Markup on your website can also help you […]

More than half of mobile visitors will leave if your website takes longer than three seconds to load. Therefore, it’s essential to ensure that your WordPress site displays quickly, to avoid losing out on valuable traffic and revenue. Yet it can be challenging to identify specific performance issues. Fortunately, you can easily audit and fix your page speed issues in WordPress with the help of some free tools. Solutions such as PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, and WordPress Speed Tool can identify performance problems and help you solve them. This article will look at the importance of loading times for Search Engine […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life. In this week’s stream we’ll talk with Ben Ritner, the Lead at Kadence WP. We talked about the state of Full Site Editing in WordPress and block-based themes. Joining as this week’s co-host is Nicholas Diego, a developer advocate at WP Engine who has worked on FrostWP and a few experimental Gutenberg blocks. Join us each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour.

For years, many WordPress website owners have wondered if they need to use Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) to keep their sites running smoothly. Due to a lack of clear information, it has remained uncertain whether Google AMP can improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Fortunately, in 2021, Google released some definitive news about the state of AMP moving forward. With Google switching its focus to the Core Web Vitals, you likely don’t need to worry about using AMP in 2022. However, there are still some important caveats worth mentioning. In this post, we’ll cover what Google AMP is and how […]

Before you can start building a WordPress website, you’ll need to choose a domain name that is in line with your brand. However, you might come up with the perfect domain, only to discover that it’s already been taken. Fortunately, there may be a solution to your dilemma. If your desired domain name already exists, you can buy it from the owner. This could be a great solution if you want to boost your brand recognition and establish a consistent image. In this post, we’ll talk about domain names and discuss some myths about buying an existing one. Then we’ll […]

The loop is a central part of WordPress. Without it, you would not see content on any WordPress website. It’s responsible for making sure that articles appears on the blog page and in archives as well as static content on single pages. If you are a theme designer, you will not get around learning how to use it. However, as a casual WordPress user, you might not even be aware that it exists. In order to alleviate that, in this post, we will explain the WordPress loop in detail. We will go over what it is and how it works, […]