The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. WordPress 6.2 is here and it’s full of great new features. In this video, we talk with Nick Diego about what makes this version so special. Nick is a WordPress Core contributor who is very passionate about the Full Site Editor.
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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode, we talked with Aurooba Ahmed, a Software Developer specializing in WordPress and the co-host of the viewSource podcast. We talked about what’s Style Books and other new features in WordPress 6.2. We also talked about the lessons Aurooba has learned will doing her daily podcast project.
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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode, we talked with Josepha Haden Chomphosy, the Executive Director of the WordPress project, about WordPress’s 20th anniversary, the upcoming release of WordPress 6.2, Hot Ones hot sauce, and much more. It was a great conversation and we hope you enjoy it too.
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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Brian Coords, a WordPress developer and co-host of the viewSource podcast. We talk about the viewSource, a WordPress-themed podcast Brian runs with Aurooba Ahmed. Then we switch gears to talk about Brian’s recent interest with GitHub’s CoPilot.
On the final segment of the show, Brian and Doc speculate on how SEO and site discovery could change if AI chat results become the dominating result in Google searches.
We’ve talked a lot about AI and WordPress on the Social Hour lately, including this recent episode where Doc talks with Chris Wiegman and Nyahsa Green about the rise of AI tools in WordPress and the possible ethical issues involved.
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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with James LePage, the Founder of CodeWP, an AI code generator for WordPress. James tells us about his time running a WordPress agency and how it led to him building a tool that uses AI to generate WordPress snippets.
We discuss how CodeWP trained its data, how it can be used, some of the other AI tools designed for WordPress users, and a deep dive into some of the history behind ChatGPT and GPT3.
We’ve talked a lot about AI and WordPress on the Social Hour lately, including this recent episode where Doc talks with Chris Wiegman and Nyahsa Green about the rise of AI tools in WordPress and the possible ethical issues involved.
Join us next each Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for WordPress news and interviews.
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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Nyasha Green, an Editorial Director at MasterWP, and Chris Wiegman, a Manager of Engineering at WP Engine, about the pros and cons of AI. We talk about about some WordPress plugins that are powered by AI, as well as a few recent lawsuits in the space. It was a lively conversation with a lot of great comments in the chat.
Here’s a list of topics mentioned during the show:
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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Shawn Hooper and David Bisset about social media, owning your own content, and turning your WordPress site into an aggregator of your all your social networks.
We start off talking about Shawn’s Twitter-Archive-To-WP tool. Then we discuss davidbisset.social, which was built with WordPress and shows a chronological version of all of David’s social media posts. I also mentioned a tool called Tweetgrab, which allows you to convert any existing Twitter embeds on your WordPress site into static images with properly formatted Alt-Text descriptions.
During the show we also mention FeedWordPress, Anil Dash’s thoughts on search and consent in the fediverse, the Searchadon retrospective, and the the Timeline Block for WordPress.
If you’d like to know more about how to turn your WordPress site into a Linktree-style list of your favorite social networking sites, check out my tutorial:
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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Talisha Lewallen about CertifyWP, a new non-profit that aims to create a credentialing process for WordPress.
Due to a bad storm here in San Francisco, our interview gets cut short after about 25 minutes, but I think we managed to cover a lot in that time. Huge thanks to Talisha for her time. We didn’t get a chance to talk about WP Connects, but that’s another project Talisha is working on that aims to provide WordPress training to veterans to offer new career opportunities.
Join us next Wednesday, January 18th for our Torque Social Hour with David Bisset and Shawn Hooper.
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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. On this week’s episode, we talk with Sé Reed and Courtney Robertson about the WP Community Collective, a group that aims to help fund WordPress contributors and community initiatives. This was a fun conversation about who open source contributions can get funded, then we spend the second half of the show talking about fun things like Andorsands, the site editor, and other WordPress news.
Join us on December 21st for our next livestream.
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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. On this week’s episode, Brian Gardner teaches Doc the fundamentals of editing a block based WordPress theme with the new Site Editor. Brian is the designer of one of the Style Variations that came in the new Twenty Twenty Three theme.
Join us on December 14th for our interview with Courtney Robertson and Se Reed from the WP Community Collective.
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