WordPress 5.0 ships with a new editor called Gutenberg. Here at WebDevStudios, we’re excited to build custom editorial solutions using Gutenberg and to see how the experience evolves from the classic editor. With that said, we’re huge fans of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)....
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WebDevStudios 2018 Charity Drive
The 2018 WebDevStudios December charity drive kicks off today! Each year since 2014, we have held a charity drive that has given us the ability to contribute thousands of dollars to a number of amazing charities! This year, we are raising money...
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Hang onto your cowboy hats, Nashville, because team WebDevStudios (WDS) is landing! WordCamp US 2018 takes place this weekend, December 7-9, for its second and final year in Nashville. WDS attended last year, and we’re doing it again. The event’s sessions are...
Read More Back to Nashville for WordCamp US13 Reasons Why It’s Time for a Website Redesign
Every year, I like to recommend that clients conduct a website audit or have a developer perform one. The landscape of web development ebbs and flows and the internet changes so exponentially every year with upgrades in both physical hardware and coding...
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Here at WebDevStudios, we do quite a bit with Flexible Content Blocks in Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). If you aren’t familiar with the plugin, ACF allows for the creation of a multitude of custom meta field types using a graphical user interface (GUI)...
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Computer programming is a vast and complex field. For those interested in the ins and outs of engineering, determining a path to learning relevant information can seem incredibly daunting. Even once you narrow your focus to a particular area of the field,...
Read More Paths to Learning Web DevelopmentTop 10 WooCommerce Plugins
Here at WebDevStudios, we’re big fans of WooCommerce. Perhaps it’s no surprise that it is the #1 eCommerce solution for WordPress. This is in part due to the quality and flexibility of WooCommerce itself, but it’s also because of the rich plugin...
Read More Top 10 WooCommerce PluginsModern Theme Development with Storefront
Storefront is a robust and flexible free WordPress theme developed by the team behind WooCommerce. Out of the box, Storefront supports deep integration with WooCommerce, which makes it a perfect starting point for developers to launch their projects. Storefront’s codebase relies on...
Read More Modern Theme Development with StorefrontIntroduction to End-to-End Testing with Cypress.io
The topic of testing comes up often at WebDevStudios—whether we’re on-boarding a new project, or we’re digging out bugs on existing work, and even when we talk about our own internal tools. Testing is a common part of software development that often...
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