Torque Weekly Digest: 02/22/16

Here we provide a weekly recap of the biggest stories from torquemag.io. Dedicated to informing new and advanced WordPress users about the industry, Torque is a hub for WordPress news, business, and community. Here are some of last week’s top stories from Torque:

BASICS OF ANGULAR JS WITH THE WORDPRESS REST API

If you’re familar with and understand JavaScript, then check out this quick guide to getting started with AngularJS and how you can use it with any RESTful API. (To delve deeper, be sure to sign up for this upcoming webinar on the topic.)

WAIT! DON’T DOWNLOAD THAT THEME OR PLUGIN

Although WordPress presents an abundance of five-star plugins to improve your website’s functionality, sometimes less is more. To avoid bloating your site with plugins, read this guide for tips on how to keep your site lean and optimized.

11 BEST WORDPRESS TRANSLATION PLUGINS FOR MULTILINGUAL WEBSITES

Even though English is the most spoken language online, it’s important to ensure that your site caters to other languages. If not, you are missing out on 74 percent of the non-English speaking web. To help you with this, here are 11 of the best WordPress translation plugins.