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.

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...

Announcing WPClassroom.com: Online WordPress Training

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...

Post 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...

WordCamp 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...