Continuing our weekly series of live conversations, we hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Torque’s Social Hour. In this week’s episode we talk about WordPress trends of 2020, Yoast’s acquisition of Duplicate Posts plugin, and Doc’s recent fights on Twitter. Show notes: Duplicate Posts acquired by YOAST What it’s really like to be a person of color in WordPress 5 WordPress trends for 2020 GitHub to replace “master” with alternative term to avoid slavery references New features to help developers with WordPress 5.4 Be sure to catch next week’s episode live by subscribing here.
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 the WordPress community podcast 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 in the community to you here every week and press this as a reminder, you can follow me on twitter @wpdavidv and subscribe […]
Continuing our weekly series of live conversations, we hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Torque’s Social Hour. In this week’s episode of the Torque Social Hour, we talk with Jonathan Wold about Ecommerce in the age of COVID 19. Jonathan is a community lead at WooCommerce and had lots of great things to say about the trends he is seeing these past few months. We also talk about automatic plugin updates and other new features coming to WordPress 5.5. Be sure to catch next week’s episode live by subscribing here.
WordCamp Europe 2020 Online brought in 8,756 attendees, making it the biggest WordCamp to date. The conference consisted of two full days of live-streamed talks as well as a Contributor day. The team decided to move the entire conference online in order to keep community members and organizers safe in the wake of the pandemic. Though it was an incredibly tough decision, and a lot of hard work, the conference was a huge success bringing in almost triple the attendees from last year. Online is Amazing Day one ended with a conversation between WordPress Co-Founder Matt Mullenweg and Lead Architect […]
Continuing our weekly series of live conversations, we hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Torque’s Social Hour. A weekly WordPress livestream by Torque magazine. This week we talk with Zack Katz from GravityView about the WordPress Strong project along. Be sure to catch next week’s episode live by subscribing here.
Starting a WordPress business, OceanWP, hasn’t been an easy process. Much of what I’ve needed to learn has come from trial and error rather than through asking others for advice. As the company keeps growing and evolving, I’m constantly scouting new strategies and practices to make us more successful, but finding this information isn’t that easy and often requires a lot of additional effort to learn the latest best practices in the ecosystem. Learning by doing and discovering knowledge myself has generally been my approach in the past, but I’ve found that you can’t rely on strictly what you know […]
Update on June 4: The plugin is now in the repository. In light of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one WordPress developer, Phil Johnston, took it upon himself to make speaking out against racial injustice as easy as possible for WordPress site owners. Johnston created a plugin called The Show Must Be Paused, that will replace your front page with this image: “When I saw the video of George Floyd, it really shook me. I had been aware of of other similar terrible situations that have been happening recently, like Ahmaud Arbery, and just feeling […]
Continuing our weekly series of live conversations, we hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Torque’s Social Hour. In this week’s episode we talk with Anthony Burchell and Chris Garret about WordPress’s 17th birthday, running WP on a Commodore 64, and Summit 2020. Doc also did a live rendition of the #WordPressStrong song. Be sure to catch next week’s episode live by subscribing here.
Continuing our weekly series of live conversations, we hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Torque’s Social Hour. In this week’s episode we talk with Rocío Valdivia & Bernhard Kau, the two global leads of WordCamp 2020. The video had a few technical difficulties, but it’s well worth listening to! What a fun episode. Be sure to catch next week’s episode live by subscribing here.
Continuing our weekly series of live conversations, we hope you enjoy this week’s episode of Torque’s Social Hour. This week’s video features Ricky Blacker, a WordPress evangelist and pre-sales engineer at WP Engine. Ricky is deeply involved with the WordPress community in Australia and tells us about what makes it so unique. Be sure to catch next week’s episode live by subscribing here.