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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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We are excited to announce the launch of our latest project: WPClassroom.com! WPClassroom.com features online training classes for WordPress. Easily learn how to manage and maintain a WordPress powered website using the most powerful online training software powered by Cisco WebEx. Learn...
Read More Announcing WPClassroom.com: Online WordPress TrainingPost Google Map WordPress Plotting Plugin
Fresh off the dev table is our newest plugin, Post Google Map. This plugins allows you to add addresses to posts and pages. These addresses are then plotted on a google map in your sidebar when viewing the post or page! It’s...
Read More Post Google Map WordPress Plotting PluginWordCamp Chicago Friday Pizza Party
WordCamp Chicago is this weekend and the entire WebDevStudios team will be attending! Friday night (tonight) we are hosting an unofficial pizza party for anyone in the area at Lou Malnati’s in downtown Chicago. We will be at the 439 North Wells...
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WebDevStudios (Brad, Scott, and Chris) had the pleasure of attending WordCamp Mid-Atlantic this past Saturday, May 16, 2009 in Baltimore, MD. Aaron Brazell, Jimmy Gardner, and Alex Hillman organized an amazing event, which converged in the great central location of Baltimore. Brad...
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