The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. In this week’s episode Doc will talk with Ryan Singel, the founder and CEO of Contextly, about how to keep readers on your site longer. Ryan is formerly an editor and journalist, and currently a Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST when our special guest will be Greg Rickaby.

Starting an online business opens up a world of possibilities. People turn to the digital realm for all their needs, whether it’s food or professional marketing services. From this dependency, your new online business can get its footing in any field. However, you will first want to know some business jargon that will pop up frequently. Then, you can continue down the path to success. 1. Return on Investment (ROI) You should receive a return on investment (ROI) on the things you purchase to aid your business. This category is vast and critical. If you make the right choices when […]

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]

Are you launching a startup and want to build your audience while establishing a successful brand? If so, you’re not alone. Countless startups try to break into already crowded markets every year, and many of them never make it off the ground.  The key to turning your business into a well-known brand is a robust search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. Simply put, SEO is the practice of organically increasing the quality and quantity of your website traffic. The increase in traffic results in a better position on Google’s search engine results pages (SERPs), which leads to even more traffic and […]

Since the feature’s release in 2018, WordPress has continued to work on its divisive Block Editor. Today, it’s available as both a separate plugin and built into WordPress core. However, even if you’ve been following its development closely, it can be difficult to stay apprised of Gutenberg updates. WordPress 5.6 merged several features of the Gutenberg plugin into WordPress core. With the two versions of the Block Editor now (mostly) in harmony, this is the perfect time to take stock of its latest modifications. In this post, we’ll share six recent changes to the Block Editor. We’ll also be looking […]

Developing a website or application from the ground up is a monumental task. Coding, testing, and launching are not cut-and-dry processes, especially when users expect an intuitive, well-designed interface. Thus, implementing a well-developed library for your chosen language – such as React for JavaScript – makes good sense. JavaScript frameworks such as React provide pre-written code to help you develop front-end user interactions. This leaves you more time to focus on the unique parts of your site or app. As such, building powerful interfaces and themes becomes much simpler than you might have thought. In this article, we’ll explore what […]

Sometimes, there’s just too much to do when it comes to running a web presence. Website maintenance, creating content, and running the actual operations of your business — it’s a lot to handle. That’s why marketing automation is such a clear and easy solution for cutting down your workload and WordPress offers a lot of options for it.  Understanding which tasks can be automated and which should be left to a personal touch is vital. That’s why we’ve aimed to make the task easier for you. What follows is a collection of several website aspects that you can improve via […]

Updating to the latest version of WordPress is essential for protecting your website against security threats. The longer you wait to install the upgrade, the more time malicious parties have to exploit your site’s vulnerabilities. That’s why WordPress auto-updates are appealing to so many website owners. Fortunately, WordPress 5.6 introduces an enhanced auto-updates feature. By activating it, you can install minor and major WordPress releases automatically. This means you can feel confident that you’re always running the latest and most secure version of the platform. In this article, we’ll cover everything you need to know about WordPress 5.6’s auto-updates feature. […]

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogel Paul, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter […]

The Torque News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. In this episode of the Torque News Drop, Doc talks with Angela Jin about her recent post “Proposal: Decision making checklist for safe, in-person meetups”. Angela is a community builder and a member of the WordPress community team. We also talk about LearnWP and the community team’s efforts to increase diversity in the WordPress space. Diverse Speaker Training Working Group Update to the proposal on returning to in person meetups Learn WordPress and how to contribute