If you are familiar with WordPress as a project, you probably know that it is divided into teams for different areas. There is the Core team, the Design team, and the Polyglots team, which we have talked about before. In this post, we want take a look at the newest addition to the roster: the WordPress Sustainability team. The topic of sustainability first came up during a Q&A session with Matt and Josepha at WordCamp Europe 2022. This also resulted in the establishment of a #sustainability channel in the official WordPress Slack chat to give members of the community a […]

Marketers and web developers often go with their gut feelings, but Viola Gruner, Head of Marketing at Inpsyde, believes in the power of testing over guessing. In this episode, Viola discusses the importance of data-driven decision-making and shares her insights on how to test and confirm ideas instead of relying on assumptions. She highlights surprising results she encountered during experiments, recommends testing tools like Google Optimize and HubSpot, and emphasizes the significance of documenting and celebrating test results. Join us as Viola shares her growth hacking strategies and encourages marketers to embrace testing and learning from each experiment.

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. On this episode of the Torque Social Hour, we talk with Matt Medeiros, the founder of the WP Minute and WordPress Community Lead at Gravity Forms. We’ll talk about what it’s like podcasting about WordPress and some big changes happening at the WP Minute. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.

With this chapter on Cumulative Layout Shift, we are nearing the end of our miniseries on Core Web Vitals for WordPress users. In the earlier chapters on Largest Contentful Paint and First Input Delay, we already talked about what exactly those terms mean and how to optimize your website for each of them. Now, we want to do the same for CLS. In the following, we cover what exactly Cumulative Layout Shift is, how it’s calculated, how to test your website for its performance in this area, and what’s a good value to aim for. After that, we give you […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. On this episode, we talk with Birgit Pauli-Haack, a sponsored Core Contributor. We’ll talk about the big changes coming to WordPress 6.3 and to Gutenberg. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.

Today we’re gonna talk to Bud Kraus, the Chief Education Officer at Joy of WP. He’s also been a Contributor at TorqueMag.io. Bud recently gave a talk at WordCamp Europe titled “Using Low Vision As My Tool To Help Me Teach WordPress.” And in his talk, Bud demonstrated the tools, methods he uses to surf the web, but he also talks about how his experience has made him a better WordPress educator.

We recently started off a new series on Google’s Core Web Vitals metrics with a post on Largest Contentful Paint. Here, we want to continue with the next candidate in line: First Input Delay or FID for short and how to improve it in WordPress. In the following, we will take a deep dive into what FID is and how to optimize your WordPress website for it. You’ll learn to understand and measure First Input Delay, what value you should aim for, and how to improve it if necessary. Note that this post assumes that you are already familiar with […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. On this episode, we are joined by Nyasha Green to talk about this week’s WordPress news and Nyasha’s new role at LinkedIn Learning. Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.

We’re thrilled to have Hari Shanker, an open source program manager at Automattic and a key contributor to the WordPress ecosystem. Hari is currently focusing on improving the experience for WordPress contributors and Hari has been instrumental in developing the Contributor Working Group and the Mentorship Program.

Bringing real-time collaboration or collaborative editing to WordPress will be the focus of the third phase of the Gutenberg project. It started off with the block editor in WordPress 5.0 and has by now progressed to Full-Site Editing aka the WordPress Site Editor. Adding real-time collaboration will be the second-to-last phase, while the final phase will add native multilingual capabilities. Lead Architect Matias Ventura recently posted a preliminary outline of what is planned for Phase 3. The planned changes will not only bring new functionality to WordPress but also necessitate rebuilding (large) parts of its interface. The developers also predict […]