WordPress Community Contributors to Host Free Online Diversity Workshop Ahead of WordCamp US
WordCamp US will debut a new Community Track in November that will feature sessions and workshops on topics like meetups, WordCamps, diversity and inclusion, and kids/youth. Jill Binder, Allie Nimmons, Aurooba Ahmed, and David Wolfpaw [...]
How to Conduct an Accessibility Audit on Your WordPress Site
It’s one thing to recognize the phrase “website accessibility” and know that it’s important. The challenge is understanding how to actually go about it. However, designing your website with accessibility in mind is imperative to [...]
Google Chrome on Android Will Provide Answers to Queries Right in the Address Bar via @MattGSouthern
Google Chrome on Android will soon receive an update that provides answers to search results without having to actually submit a query. As users type queries into Chrome’s address bar, answers will show up in [...]
Torque Toons: Tech Like A Pirate Day
Torque is a news site featuring all things WordPress. We are dedicated to informing new and advanced WordPress professionals about the industry. Check in daily for tutorials, interviews, news, and more. Get our newsletter No [...]
Bayleaf: A Food and Recipe Blog Theme
With the WordPress theme directory dominated by business-oriented themes, it’s sometimes tough to find themes that cater to more specific user groups. If you dig deep enough, you’ll find something outside the norm. Bayleaf is [...]
Automattic Gets $3 Million at $3 Billion Valuation from Salesforce
Automattic just closed a Series D funding round of $3 million from one investor, Salesforce Ventures. According to Automattic founder, Matt Mullenweg, this investment will allow the company to stay the course and honor the [...]
WP Engine Named a Great Place to Work for Women
For the first time ever, WP Engine has been named a Great Place to Work for Women. Great Place to Work, an organization that surveys more than 100 million global employees each year in order [...]
20 Best Admin Dashboard WordPress Plugins 2019 [UPDATED]
When you’re trying to make a WordPress site perfect, you’re focused on enhancing the user experience. Like most admins, you probably ignore the appeal of the admin dashboard. That’s not the right thing to do [...]
Automattic Raises $300M in Series D Investment Round, Valuation Jumps to $3 Billion
Automattic announced another round of funding today, a $300 million Series D investment from Salesforce Ventures, giving the company a $3 billion valuation post-funding. The last time Automattic raised money was $160 million in a [...]
How to Create a Dynamic & Vibrant Product Grid for Your Divi Landing Page
Product pages are amazing when it comes to highlighting one specific product and its details, but when you’re creating a landing page, you might want to fit in more products in one place and allow [...]
Trippy CSS Distortion Effects
Sometimes a cool glitchy, distorted effect is the perfect addition to your web design. Maybe you’re creating a tech site, a developer’s portfolio, or something completely experimental. Distortion effects are an unconventional but interesting way [...]
24 Best Coffee Cup In Hand Mockups for Effective Branding
Need a coffee cup mockup to evaluate your cup designs? Do you want to see if the logo and color scheme you use is effective and exceptional? We’ve already posted coffee cup mockups for your [...]
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What is WordPress?
WordPress is currently the fastest growing CMS software. Initially, WordPress was largely associated with blogs as its main functionality was to allow easy blog experience. Yet, over time, its developers expanded its functionality to allow the creation of more complicated websites and grew it into a content management system rather than a blogging tool. WordPress is considered the easiest to use CMS thanks to a very friendly interface. It also has an amazing number of plugins which allow extension of its functionality in various possible ways.
