Torque Toons | Torque All the Word that's fit to Press Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:39:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Torque Toons: Scary Stories https://torquemag.io/2023/10/torque-toons-scary-stories/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:32:33 +0000 https://torquemag.io/?p=95213 Happy Halloween, here’s a spooky toon. If you enjoy spooky WordPress stories, be sure to check out our recent Press This podcast, “WordPress Horror Stories.” Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!   Have an idea for a Torque Toon? Leave your ideas in the comments below! 

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]]> Happy Halloween, here’s a spooky toon.

Two people are around a campfire at night. One of them is telling a scary story, and the other one looks scared. The text at the top says, "By the time she realized her mistake, it was too late... THE SITE HAD ALREADY BEEN PUSHED TO PRODUCTION!"

If you enjoy spooky WordPress stories, be sure to check out our recent Press This podcast, “WordPress Horror Stories.”

Press This: WordPress Horror Stories

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]]> Torque Toons: Friday The 13th (in technicolor) https://torquemag.io/2023/10/friday-the-13th-in-color/ Fri, 13 Oct 2023 23:39:23 +0000 https://torquemag.io/?p=95170 It’s Friday the 13th… time for a scary comic! Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons!   Have an idea for a Torque Toon? Leave your ideas in the comments below! 

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]]> It’s Friday the 13th… time for a scary comic!

A cartoon showing Jason, from Friday The 13th, reading a book about JavaScript. The caption says "Jason learns JSON".

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]]> Torque Toons: Open Source Treasure https://torquemag.io/2023/08/torque-toons-open-source-treasure/ Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:40:27 +0000 https://torquemag.io/?p=95058 Doc and Emily are getting ready to travel to DC for WordCamp 2023, one of the largest open source conferences of the year. Stay tuned for live coverage from the event here.

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]]> Doc and Emily are getting ready to travel to DC for WordCamp 2023, one of the largest open source conferences of the year. Stay tuned for live coverage from the event here.

A cartoon of a man (Doc Pop) staring at an old piece of paper in a museum case. He is point at the paper and saying "Finally! The Open Source Constitution." The case is labelled "The National Archives" and the paper says "The Four Freedoms. 0- Inspect. 1- Use. 2-Modify. 3. Distribute. " The man grabs the paper and tucks it under his arm as he runs away yelling "And now it's mine!". A security guard behind him (Emily Schiola) yells "Doc, you fool! Anyone can print and distribute those rules."

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]]> Torque Toons: WP20 https://torquemag.io/2023/05/torque-toons-wp20/ Sat, 27 May 2023 14:33:56 +0000 https://torquemag.io/?p=94814 Happy 20th birthday, WordPress!

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]]> Happy 20th birthday, WordPress!

An hour glass with "WP20" written on top. On the right hand side are a list of major milestones in WordPress's history. From the bottom up the list says: "-Plugin and theme support -First WordCamp (San Francisco 2006) -1 billion downloads -Gutenberg Phase 1: Introduced the block editor -Gutenberg phase 2: Full Site Editing -Gutenberg Phase 3: Collaboration -Gutenberg Phase 4: Multilingual -??? ???? ?????"

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]]> Torque Toons: Don’t Fear the Headless WordPress https://torquemag.io/2022/11/torque-toons-dont-fear-the-headless-wordpress/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:56:02 +0000 https://torquemag.io/?p=93932 Headless WordPress may sound scary at first, but it’s really not that bad.

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]]> Headless WordPress may sound scary at first, but it’s really not that bad.

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]]> Torque Toons: Wapuu Panda Fusion https://torquemag.io/2022/08/torque-toons-wapuu-panda-fusion/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:26:00 +0000 https://torquemag.io/?p=93492 Did you know The San Diego Zoo is only an 8 minute drive from this year’s WordCamp US location? The San Diego Zoo is one of three zoos in the United States that has giant pandas. That got me thinking about a Wapuu/giant panda mashup.

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]]> Did you know The San Diego Zoo is only an 8 minute drive from this year’s WordCamp US location? The San Diego Zoo is one of three zoos in the United States that has giant pandas. That got me thinking about a Wapuu/giant panda mashup.

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]]> Torque Toons: WordCamp US travel tip #1 https://torquemag.io/2022/08/torque-toons-wordcamp-us-travel-tip-1/ Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:16:27 +0000 https://torquemag.io/?p=93439 I’m so excited about WordCamp US in September. Like many of you, I haven’t been to a WordCamp in years, so I thought I’d share some travel advice for San Diego. If you’d like some better travel advice, we’d recommend this WCUS travel thread by @GoGinaMarie.

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]]> I’m so excited about WordCamp US in September. Like many of you, I haven’t been to a WordCamp in years, so I thought I’d share some travel advice for San Diego.

If you’d like some better travel advice, we’d recommend this WCUS travel thread by @GoGinaMarie.

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]]> Torque Toons: Generating WordPress Mascots With AI https://torquemag.io/2022/08/torque-toons-generating-wordpress-mascots-with-ai/ Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:47:59 +0000 https://torquemag.io/?p=93317 Generative text-to-image tools, like Dalle-2 and Midjourney, are all the rage this summer. I used an AI tool called Craiyon to generate an image based on the prompt “WordPress mascot” and then redrew the results in a more consistent style. Here are the results:

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]]> Generative text-to-image tools, like Dalle-2 and Midjourney, are all the rage this summer. I used an AI tool called Craiyon to generate an image based on the prompt “WordPress mascot” and then redrew the results in a more consistent style. Here are the results:

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]]> Torque Toons: Inching Towards 6.0 https://torquemag.io/2022/05/torque-toons-inching-towards-6-0/ Tue, 17 May 2022 14:57:49 +0000 https://torquemag.io/?p=92982 Happy Spring. WordPress 6.0 is almost here!

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]]> Happy Spring. WordPress 6.0 is almost here!

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]]> Torque Toons: Long Form Tweets https://torquemag.io/2022/04/torque-toons-long-form-tweets/ https://torquemag.io/2022/04/torque-toons-long-form-tweets/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:04:26 +0000 https://torquemag.io/?p=92888 Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter yesterday. So far he’s discussed enabling “long form Tweets”, Open Sourcing the algorithm, and adding an edit button.

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]]> Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter yesterday. So far he’s discussed enabling “long form Tweets”, Open Sourcing the algorithm, and adding an edit button.

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