If you are running a WordPress website, RSS feeds are a great way for you to reach out to your audience. Sure, most people follow news and updates from their favorite websites and blogs via social media or by directly accessing the site, but there are also plenty of those which use services like Feedly in order to receive web feeds. The great thing about WordPress is that it’s so complementary with other platforms, be it social media or cloud storage services, and RSS is no exception. In fact, every WordPress site publishes RSS feeds automatically, which means your target […]

When I first looked at Vue vs React, I chose VueJS. One of the reasons was that I felt like Vue was a better choice was the complexity of React classes and life-cycle events. I felt like that was a lot of extra complication that would help with developing frameworks, but preferred the simplicity of Vue’s HTML-like templates and Angular-like two-way data-bindings. As working with Gutenberg has caused me to readdress React, I’ve found that React can, in many ways be a lot simpler, because I can stick to small, pure functions for most of my components. One thing I […]

Do you ever find yourself thinking something like, “Why is my WordPress site not ranking in Google? I have done everything right! I even installed an SEO plugin! Why is this happening!? I hate my life.” I get it, it can be frustrating. Putting in all that effort to optimize your site, reading awesome articles on search engine optimization like these: WordPress SEO 2018 – How to Dominate Search Rankings This Year Voice Search Optimization – How to Do WordPress SEO for Voice Search WordPress On-Page SEO: How To Do It Perfectly And yet nothing. You are still banned to […]

Your choice of web hosting is an important consideration. Getting it right is like adding jet fuel to your average car engine. However, a poor selection can hamper your site’s effectiveness, much like adding the wrong type of gas to your car. In other words, matching the right host to your needs is crucial. While the options could seem overwhelming, you can narrow them down by answering one initial question: should you choose shared or managed hosting? There are inherent differences between the two categories of plans, as well as a unique set of pros and cons. This means each […]

If you want to accept online hotel bookings and reservations for other types of accommodation and hospitality services, then WordPress and its wealth of plugins will help you build a suitable website. However, with a number of excellent hotel booking plugins available for WordPress, which one should you choose for your website? That’s the question we’ll help you answer in this MotoPress Hotel Booking vs HBook vs WooCommerce Bookings plugin comparison. In this guide, we’ll explore the core features of each tool to give you the information you need to make an informed decision on which solution is the best […]

This is the third post in a series on learning React, for use with Gutenberg, the new WordPress block-based editor that will be powering the WordPress post editor in WordPress 5.0. React is built on top of Facebook’s React library. In this post, we’re going to take the code from the previous two tutorials and combine them. The first post just showed a very basic “Hello World” Gutenberg block. The last post backed up to a React “Hello World” example and then showed how to add components, such as those to show WordPress posts. Now in this post, we’re going […]

We’re willing to bet that you’re always on the lookout for ways to drive more traffic to your site. In addition, keeping that traffic around long enough to experience a solid chunk of your content is vital. However, it can be a challenge to find easy ways to accomplish both of those goals. While there are plenty of ways to attract traffic in WordPress, developing a strong internal linking structure is one of the best. In a nutshell, this means linking to your own pages and content in a way that performs well on search engines and encourages visitors to […]

Are you planning your next website update? WordPress has hundreds of thousands of themes you can download for free. It can be hard to find the perfect one. You need something responsive, engaging, and easy to use. How do you know you are making the best choice of WordPress theme for your company? We’ve compiled some tips to make sure you download a theme that will take you into 2019 and beyond. Minimum Requirements for 2019 There are some considerations that you must address. Let’s go through them right now. Gutenberg Before settling on a design for your WordPress site, […]

In my last post for Torque, I wrote about how WordPress with the new Gutenberg editor uses React. I also gave my opinion on if WordPress developers need to learn React. While you do not need to know React to create Gutenberg blocks, I laid out a few reasons why it might make sense for you to do so. If those reasons made sense for you, good news, this is a post to get you started with React and its starting a new series of posts about using React for Gutenberg development. Before We Get Started In the first few […]

Running a WordPress site is hard work, so wouldn’t it be great if you could get a little help now and then? No, I’m not talking about hiring a human! I’m talking about harnessing artificial intelligence to improve your WordPress site without lifting one of your human fingers. Artificial intelligence is no longer the exclusive realm of Google and other billion-dollar tech companies – there are now some free or affordable WordPress plugins that let you add artificial intelligence to your very own website without requiring any special technical knowledge. Better yet, these tools can actually make your WordPress site […]