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WP Y’all!

This year for WordCamp Birmingham aka WP Y’all, it is being held on Saturday, August 16th at the Harbert Center. During the WordCamp, you will have a chance to see WDS team member, Greg Rickaby! This is only the second time that...

Dre Armeda Joins WebDevStudios

In May 2014, Dre Armeda announced that he was stepping down as CEO of Sucuri, Inc., a business that he started 4 years ago and turned into a very successful multi-million dollar, 30+ employee company that services millions of unique monthly scans, monitors thousands of...

Which Brad Will You Be Seeing at WordCamp Grand Rapids 2014?

This year for WordCamp Grand Rapids, it is being held from Friday, August 15th – Sunday, August 17th and is taking place at the DeVos Center on Grand Valley State University’s Pew Campus. During WordCamp, you will have the chance to see...

You Broke It! Better Error Handling So Your Errors Don’t Suck!

There you are. Face illuminated by the blue glow of the monitor. You’ve just finished passing the third of three sets of WP_Query arguments to a function that’s supposed to run a loop with the passed args. Except…arg is what you’re feeling right now because your loop…isn’t...

Unit Testing Your Plugins

So you have an amazing plugin, and it’s starting to get bigger and the bug reports are piling up (or better you are are starting a new plugin and you wanna do it right). Unfortunately getting PHPUnit to properly function with WordPress...

WordCamp Oma-what? Omaha!

This is the first year that Omaha is having a WordCamp! It is running from Saturday, August 9th – Sunday, August 10th and is being held at the Metropolitan Community College. During WordCamp Omaha, you will be able to see WDS team member...

WDS Welcomes Dustin Filippini!

WebDevStudios is proud to announce our newest developer – Dustin Filippini! Dustin has been creating for the web since the late 90s using all types of technologies, first using WordPress for a college project in 2005. He credits the WordPress community for...

Lisa Sabin-Wilson – Interview with WP Elevation

Lisa Sabin-Wilson of WDS was recently interviewed by WP Elevation Founder, Troy Dean. In the interview, she talks about what is was like to move from freelancer to becoming a partner for WDS. She also talks about how she has overcome her fear...

Don’t Repeat Yourself! How to Create an Author Box Using the Gravatar API

Wouldn’t it be great if the box above could be automatically filled by your Gravatar profile? Tons of services auto-populate your info using Gravatar right? Why can’t my profile information (and social media info) just auto populate in WordPress too!? (NOTE: someone smarter...