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.

New Jersey WordPress Meetup Live Streaming Tonight

The second New Jersey WordPress Meetup is tonight at 7pm EST! We are going to cover the new version of Thesis, from install/configuration to discovering new features in version 1.4.x and also talk about any other WordPress topics that might come up....

Matt takes a Bite out of Thesis

Matt Armendariz, of MattBites.com, came to WebDevStudios with a problem. His blog had been on TypePad for many years and he wanted to move. He knew WordPress was where he needed to be to truly expand, but wasn’t sure on the proper...

Migrating your Website or Blog to WordPress

We receive many requests from people wanting to move their website or blog to WordPress. This can be a scary question for some, as they know their website is deeply rooted in search engines, and contains a large collection of posts, pages,...

WebDevStudios.com goes White Trash

Michelle Lamar, of WhiteTrashMom.com, recently enlisted our services to help migrate her current TypePad blog over to WordPress with the popular Thesis theme. We love helping enthusiastic bloggers make the switch to the best blogging platform out there, WordPress. Michelle was tired...

BuddyPress Beta Released – WordPress Meets Social Networking

Last week BuddyPress announced the launch of their much anticipated beta release. BuddyPress is a set of WordPress MU plugins that adds social networking functionality to any standard WordPress MU installation. Each BuddyPress component is independent, meaning you can choose which features...

New Jersey WordPress Meetup Scheduled for January 7th, 2009

Today we are excited to announce the launch of the New Jersey WordPress Meetup Group! We are organizing the event to help build a fun group of WordPress enthusiasts in the New Jersey area. The first official New Jersey WordPress Meetup is...

WebDevStudios.com Now Running on WordPress 2.7 RC1

We just finished upgrading WebDevStudios.com to WordPress 2.7 RC1. I’m sure you’re curious why we decided to upgrade our website before the final version of WP 2.7 is released in the next few days. WordPress 2.7 features a new auto-upgrade feature. Now...

The Sister Project powered by WordPress MU

We are excited to announce the launch of our latest project, The Sister Project. The Sister Project is a blog network or family of sister blogs. Conceived by Margaret Roach, The Sister Project version 1.0 is a thread of conversation that started...

WordPress and WordPress MU version 2.6.5 released

WordPress has released version 2.6.5 for standard WordPress and WordPress MU. This new update fixes one security vulnerability and multiple bugs. The security issue is an XSS exploit that only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x, which excludes all WebDevStudios.com...