Most people who start a website do it with the goal in mind to earn money. After all, we all need to make a living and the Internet has become a great place to do it. We already talked about this concept in another article that covered how to monetize your WordPress website. Here, we covered different ways to make money with a website from ads over sponsored posts to affiliate programs. It’s a great place to start if you are thinking about earning money with your WordPress site. Today, we want to get a little more specific. After deciding how […]

Automattic’s theme division, Theme Shaper, recently announced they will be turning their attention back to the popular Underscores starter theme. Notably, this shift is cited due to the possibilities the new Gutenberg editor brings to future theme development. Underscores is a starter theme (as opposed to a theme framework) designed to cut down many hours of development time when setting up a new custom theme. Before the Underscores project begins to receive drastic changes, it may be a good idea to familiarize yourself with the project in its current state. If you’re new to starter themes, doing so may help reduce the learning curve. In this article, […]

Image optimization is one of the best ways to make your site speedy and lightweight. Because images are one of the largest aspects of your site, it’s important that you know how to properly optimize them. Visitors will leave your site if it takes too long to load. So, the fact of the matter is that you need to keep image sizes small and use them sparingly, and that’s why optimization is so important. This process can be tedious, so here is how you can do it automatically using NPM Scripts and Gulp. Image Optimization in WordPress Image optimization means that […]

The rise of mobile devices has been one of the most decisive changes on the Internet. These days, no website can do without being mobile friendly or rather, no website that wants to be successful. By now, mobile users represent more than half of all Internet traffic and also make up the majority of all search queries. For that reason, there is no way around catering to this user group. Plus, Google now punishes you in the search results if you don’t have mobile-optimized version of your site. If that isn’t motivation enough, I don’t know what is. However, what […]

One big opportunity for using JavaScript interfaces with the WordPress REST API is improving WordPress admin and settings screens. I wrote a post for Torque recently on using the REST API and jQuery to build settings screens. It was a good introduction but normally, I would use VueJS. In the future, I’ll write more specifically about how to do that with VueJS, but I’d like to cover two important pain points I’ve dealt with getting to the point where this is my go to approach — compiling ES6 and template creation. I’m a big fan of VueJS for a lot […]

SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions have been very popular for the past decade. Surprisingly, WordPress seemed to be relatively underpenetrated compared to the rest of the industry. However, the recent WooCommerce move to a straight renewal process might be the first sign of growing trend in the WordPress universe. It’s been more than a year since we founded and launched Weglot, a new SaaS plugin for multilingual in WordPress and I wanted to share some thoughts and views on this topic. Why SaaS? SaaS is a way of delivering applications via the cloud, as a service, paying a monthly […]

Since WordPress 3.4, the Theme Customization API has emerged as an important PHP and JS based API in core. It introduced developers to a standardized way of adding theme options in the Customizer panel of the WordPress Dashboard. Last year while working on a project, I found out that adding panels, sections, and control and setting options with the Customizer API is somewhat time-consuming — since they have so many similar options and it’s a tiring process of going back and forth with the documentation. It brings a lot of hassle, and I think the basic concepts of WordPress customizer should be incredibly […]

For the last few years many people, including me, have been talking about how WordPress has evolved to where it can power applications, including SaaS platforms. One of the reasons for this is the WordPress REST API. And while I completely agree with this, one of the reasons I think it’s a great choice is that we have several full-featured eCommerce solutions. I wrote about implementing my own subscription billing system using Laravel Cashier and comparing it to working with a WordPress eCommerce platform a while ago. Since then I’ve thought alot about what an eCommerce system like WooCommerce or […]

WooCommerce is a powerful ecommerce solution for WordPress, and has a set of Representational State Transfer (REST) API endpoints for custom development. This is a huge advantage for any apps you may build in the future, but to get there you’ll first need to understand the REST API and how to use it. REST APIs enable developers to interact with data in a number of meaningful ways, without being restricted to a front-end interface. By getting to know WooCommerce’s REST API, you’ll also have a complete ecommerce platform to work from in any external application you may build. It can be a […]

What began as a simple blogging platform almost a decade ago has ultimately become one of the most used and popular CMS choices for novices and experts alike. There are many high-end websites built on this unique platform with the capabilities to incorporate any functional possibilities you can think of. The major advantage of WordPress for the users is that the installation, configuration, and database creation on WordPress do not require any particular knowledge of coding or the underlying structure. However, sometimes you may find the need for some basic understanding of the database while you are dealing with the […]