And yet another WordCamp is nearly upon us! WordCamp St. Louis is coming up on March 14-15th, and as we’ve done with past events, we want to give you the scoop on what to see and where to be. None of the...
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The Basics of Developing Accessible Websites
Imagine not being allowed to buy a gallon of milk because you’re color blind. What a ridiculous scenario right!? But the reality is: Grocery stores don’t discriminate against those with disabilities…but your website (probably) does. The reality is that there are millions and millions of...
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WordPress filters are used to modify data before being rendered to the browser or saved to the database, and WordPress plugins typically provide filters to modify plugin behavior. Gravity forms is an extremely powerful form plugin that has many filters available. These...
Read More Filtering WordPress Form Data with Gravity FormsUsing Vagrant and IIS for WordPress Development
…And lo! It came to pass that I needed to set up a local environment built on IIS. Many things (like communicating with a MS SQL server) can be emulated or replicated on a *nix environment, in which case the Vagrant workflow I’ve...
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Every month, WDS releases a bunch of goodies over on Github (and occasionally WordPress.org and elsewhere). While we typically share the links on our social media, we know that it’s easy for things to get lost in the noise, so we will...
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Prestige Conference is coming up on February 27th-28th (next week!) in Las Vegas, and yes, WDS will be there! Like PressNomics, Prestige is a tech conference that focuses on business and career development, rather than tech itself; most of the presentations are...
Read More Team WDS Takes On Prestige Conference 201510 Things I Learned Migrating Websites to WordPress
Since joining WDS, I’ve had the awesome opportunity to be a part of our internal migrations team and create scripts to help migrate sites for Microsoft to WordPress. It’s an ongoing joke about my joy for migrations because in my initial interview I...
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Prior to becoming a writer and communications dork, I was immersed in the non-profit world. From non-profits that focused on the arts to those that offered direct assistance to underserved communities, playing small time Wonder Woman (or trying, at least) was my...
Read More Tech Non-Profit Spotlight: Hack the HoodUsing Git Flow and Forget to Branch? Stash it.
Here at WebDevStudios, we use a variation of the Git workflow known as Git Flow. One of the benefits of using Git is quick and easy branching and merging without conflicts. Git Flow makes extensive use of branches to ensure that work...
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