WebDevStudios loves to help people, and this holiday season brought on a great new tradition of helping others for the entire team. In late November our awesome project managers Cristina Cannon and Jaimie Olmstead came up with the brilliant idea of a...
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Attaching Posts with CMB2 for WordPress
CMB2 creates metaboxes and forms with custom fields that will blow your mind. Attached Posts in an extension of this extremely useful plugin. Every once in a while you may find yourself needing to attach various pieces of content to various other pieces...
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Nobody likes being told that they’re wrong, right? Unless, I guess, you’re some kind of masochist. Personal quirks aside, though, everybody can benefit from somebody else taking a looking at their work and providing feedback. It happens informally all of the time;...
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There I was. Working on adding PHP docblocks to widgets.php in /wp-includes, like you do, when I came across this: So I set about trying to figure out the appropriate @since parameter to use. Do I base the @since on when the...
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It’s that time of year again — WordSesh is back for its third year! This year it is being held on Saturday, December 20th from 00:00 – 24:00 UTC. Not sure how to coordinate UTC time with your time zone? Don’t worry — check...
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It’s time for WordCamp Las Vegas! It is being held this year from Saturday, December 13th until Sunday, December 14th at the Innevation Center. This WordCamp offers two different tracks — Developer/Designer and User/Business. On Sunday, there will also be a workshop that you...
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With the holidays fast approaching, our team at WebDevStudios wanted to do something special that got everyone on our team into the holiday spirit, and into the spirit of giving! Each of our teams at WDS has chosen a charity that they...
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In this post, you’re going to learn how to create a simple Admin Theme for WordPress. An Admin Theme can be used to create your own color scheme for the WordPress Dashboard or make minor tweaks to the theme that is set...
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Update 12/8/2014: I’m not going to tell you not to cache all the things. You should absolutely cache all the things. However Otto wrote up a convincing argument about why you shouldn’t cache all the things using transients in the comments. So,...
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