Author: Brad Williams

Brad Williams is Partner and Co-Founder of WebDevStudios (WDS). Brad is responsible for defining the vision and direction of the overall company. He works closely with Marketing and Sales with a strong focus on Business Development. Brad has helped grow WDS from a coffee table startup to one of the oldest and most respected WordPress Agencies working with clients like Microsoft, Viacom, Campbell Soup Company, Starbucks, and the NBA. Since 2017, Brad has been a member of the Forbes Agency Council. Prior to WebDevStudios, Brad was the IT Director at a major eCommerce company based in Indiana, where he managed all online web properties, warehousing systems, and internal servers and networks. Brad is also a US Marine Corps veteran and graduated from Military Occupational Specialty School as a 4067 Computer Programmer. Brad served one tour in Kuwait/Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom where he learned to program with a gas mask on! Brad is a co-author of the Professional WordPress Book Series, which are some of the highest rated advanced WordPress Development books on the market. He is the co-organizer of WordCamp Philly 2010 – 2015 and the Philadelphia WordPress Meetup. Brad was also a co-organizer for the Inaugural WordCamp US in 2015 and again in 2016. He has been developing websites for over 25 years. In the last 20, Brad has specifically focused on open-source technologies like WordPress. Brad lives in Philadelphia with his wife and son. He’s obsessed with cheesesteaks, Raider’s football (it’s complicated), podcasting, Halloween, LED lights, and all things technology.

WebDevStudios is Attending WordCamp San Diego 2012 This Weekend!

This weekend WebDevStudios will be attending WordCamp San Diego 2012! We’re proud to be a End-User track sponsor for the event this year. Brad, Brian, Chris, Mike and April are in San Diego soaking up the sun. WDS will also be giving away...

Merry Christmas 2011 from WebDevStudios!

Merry Christmas from the team at WebDevStudios.com!

WDS is Attending WordCamp Las Vegas 2011!

WebDevStudios is heading west to attend WordCamp Las Vegas on December 17th, 2011! The WDS founders, Brad and Brian, will be attending what looks to be an awesome WordCamp. We’re also very proud to be a Diamond Sponsor of the event. If...

Billions – A Free WordPress Theme by WebDevStudios

Billions was created collaboratively with TurboTax who contacted us looking to create a free theme focused on financial bloggers. The theme is available for download in the wordpress.org theme repository.

Building a Robust Amazon Web Services Cluster with EC2 & RDS

The Amazon AWS outage on April 21, 2011 took many people by surprise. After all, simply having your servers on “The Cloud” solves all of your problems right? The outage that brought down Quora, Reddit, FourSquare, and even paper.li was an eye...

TurboTax Releases TaxCaster WordPress Plugin

TurboTax, the leader in tax preparation software, has released a new TaxCaster WordPress Plugin! The TaxCaster Plugin makes it extremely easy to add the TaxCaster Lite application to any WordPress powered site. Easily let your visitor estimate their taxes using the TaxCaster...

CollabPress v0.5 Released!

CollabPress, our new and popular task management plugin for WordPress, has a new version out: v0.5 beta! This new version adds a lot of great functionality including: * Add and view comments for tasks (with email notifications!) * Edit any existing tasks...

Merry Christmas from WebDevStudios!

WordPress Security

The most important part of any website is your website security. Imagine losing all of your content, including posts, media, and comments. Even worse imagine spam links hiding in your content. Keeping your website safe from hacker bots should be a top...