The WordPress user roles and capabilities system is built to be pretty flexible. There’s a hierarchy of responsibilities in place that can be used to inform a content workflow from lower on the totem pole to higher. But sometimes those user roles...
Read More Building Content Teams with WP User Groups and Custom User RolesAuthor: Chris Reynolds
How to be a Better Developer
Becoming a good developer is super easy, right? You just read all the right books, learn the right languages, read the right blogs, and ? you’re a developer! It’s nothing a four year degree from a technical college couldn’t give you, right? Or maybe...
Read More How to be a Better DeveloperMonotasking: Stay Focused by Doing One Thing at a Time
There are a lot of benefits of working from home. Your commute is really easy, often you can make your own hours, you have a lot more flexibility in your day-to-day schedule if (and when) emergencies come up, and it’s perfect for...
Read More Monotasking: Stay Focused by Doing One Thing at a TimeHow to Produce a High Quality Screencast
No one likes reading, right? I mean, why are you even reading this sentence instead of surfing YouTube looking at cat videos? As a culture, we often to gravitate toward passive entertainment–information flung at us without us having to do a whole lot of work...
Read More How to Produce a High Quality ScreencastUse Simple Page Builder to Add Unique Layouts to Your Content
We’ve previously talked about the WDS Simple Page Builder plugin. But there have been some exciting new additions to the plugin that make it even more useful, as well as a full wiki explaining how to use it (for both devs and users)....
Read More Use Simple Page Builder to Add Unique Layouts to Your ContentAn Alternate Git Flow for Client Work
We’ve mentioned it before, but at WebDevStudios, we use git flow–a specific git workflow first proposed five years ago, though the original author, Vincent Driessen, says he had been using it for a year before posting about it. Git Flow works best...
Read More An Alternate Git Flow for Client WorkWordCamp Orange County Plugin-a-Palooza Entry: WP Art Store
This year, WordCamp Orange County (coming up on June 6th and 7th) is doing something a little different. Plugin-a-Palooza a plugin-building hackathon/competition that they first announced back in February. The rules are pretty simple: pitch a plugin idea, get it approved, write a plugin,...
Read More WordCamp Orange County Plugin-a-Palooza Entry: WP Art StoreA Day in the Life of a WebDevStudios Developer
A couple weeks ago, one of @WebDevStudios‘ followers on Twitter sent us this: @webdevstudios Hi! QuikQues: what's a typical day like for a WebDev? I want to compare to a IT Support person. Thanks!! — Tony Obfenda (@TonyObfenda) April 30, 2015 That...
Read More A Day in the Life of a WebDevStudios DeveloperUsing wp_cron (or “How to cron a cron that’s not really a cron”)
One extremely confusing set of functions within WordPress is the concept of “wp_cron“. For those of you unfamiliar with it, is a scheduling tool on Unix systems and, in itself, is not without its own confusing elements. Let’s take a more user-friendly example...
Read More Using wp_cron (or “How to cron a cron that’s not really a cron”)