Imagine you have been evaluating your web presence and have determined that there are tasks you need to work on to improve your website. After careful deliberation, your team has identified points A, B, and C are all either not working, or...
Read More Staging Websites for Safe DevelopmentAuthor: Michael Beckwith
Michael is a Backend Engineer for seemingly every corner of WebDevStudios, he also handles premium support and development for Pluginize, as well as community support for WebDevStudios’ public free WordPress plugins. One way or another, he’s helping others manage their website and content. He brings over 13 years of experience in web development and specifically WordPress experience to the table. His knowledge and skills have been honed through local agency work, a long stint in freelance, and working remotely at WebDevStudios since the tail end of 2012. During his downtime, he can be frequently found working with a personal trainer at the gym or curled up at one of many local coffee shops with his nose in a book after challenging himself every weekend to read something without a screen.There and Back Again: A BuddyPress Tale
The Beginnings I am no stranger to contributing to open source. I have contributed in some way or another since early 2007, when I found a love for Linux and the Fedora Project. I was approaching the end of my time in...
Read More There and Back Again: A BuddyPress TaleChecking Plugin Activation Status on Multisite Networks
Recently Chris Reynolds brought up an issue he was experiencing with one of our client projects; he was struggling to compare the current active status for plugins in a multisite network between internal dev servers and a WPEngine staging site so that...
Read More Checking Plugin Activation Status on Multisite NetworksCall for Beta Testers: Custom Post Type UI 0.9.0 Beta 1
Custom Post Type UI has been around for the better part of five years and is one of WebDevStudios’ oldest plugins in the WordPress.org repo. It has amassed over 640,000 downloads and maintains a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars. Since its...
Read More Call for Beta Testers: Custom Post Type UI 0.9.0 Beta 1Displaying Your Popular Posts Using Jetpack
Every site owner who is posting fresh, new content frequently wants to have their content read on a regular basis. It does not necessarily matter if it is a returning reader or a brand new one, (though returning readers are awesome!), what...
Read More Displaying Your Popular Posts Using JetpackStartBox Easy Hooks: Easily add custom code to your site
At the end of 2012, WebDevStudios acquired the StartBox Theme Framework from their very own Brian Richards. With that acquisition came all of the plugins that were officially associated with StartBox
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