Author: Aubrey Portwood

WebDevStudios: Day in the Life of a Senior Engineer

Aubrey Portwood JOB TITLE: Senior Engineer YEARS AT WEBDEVSTUDIOS: 6+ Six years ago I landed my dream job, yep, right here at WebDevStudios. I actually started off as a Frontend Engineer, but less than a year later I switched to being a...

How to Create an Addon for Local by Flywheel

A while back, I wanted to create an addon for Local by Flywheel that connected a popular database management tool, TablePlus with Local by Flywheel. Local is a development tool used by WordPress developers all over. At WebDevStudios, we use it daily....

10 Reasons to Use WordPress for a University Website

Seven years ago, the first job where I used WordPress for a university website was actually while I was still in college. I was a work-study hire and responded to a job ad from a technical writer in the business college looking...

The Six Questions Developers Need to Ask Before Turning in Tasks

Everyday I spend time working on products for our great clients, I specifically spend a great deal of it writing code and building features. But I’m not just creating new features, I’m also creating new opportunities…opportunities to break that product. Here are the questions developers need...

Philosophy at Work: Stoicism and Web Development

This is probably the most non-technical post I’ve ever written about coding or WordPress ever. In fact, it’s not about WordPress or coding at all. This post is about how philosophy and our personal beliefs, things that are extremely personal, that end up...

Using Sass to Manage Layers with z-index

On a recent project, I started to feel a bit overwhelmed with managing numerous layers with z-index. The thing about z-index is that all of the layers have to be in order, so I end up with multiple z-index declarations in multiple files...

Use Git to Test & Update Your Plugins for WordPress 4.2

So, you get an email like this one every time WordPress publishes a new release. 4.2 just went out, so I got this email a few days ago. I’m not a serious plugin developer like most out there. They aren’t premium plugins;...