I know you didn’t think we’d miss announcing the next big event we know we’re stoked on! WordCamp Philly 2015 is THIS WEEKEND, June 13th-14th! Although I find it hard to believe that any of our regular readers are unfamiliar with WordCamp (come...
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Say hi to our new developers, Rommel and Brianna!
Oh snap! That’s right! We’ve added two more to our team! Join us in welcoming Rommel Castro and Brianna Privett! Rommel is joining the Maintainn team, and Brianna will be here over at WDS! Here’s a little bit more about them: Rommel...
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If there is one thing I really love to do, it’s migrations. While the requirements for a migration vary from project to project, the purpose is generally the same: Get data from point A to point B in a reasonable amount of...
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I am a humble designer. I am part of a wonderful craft that is often times misunderstood or oversimplified. I want to take the time from a designer’s perspective to illustrate why design will never die, but rather just be what it...
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On my first day working at WebDevStudios, Greg Rickaby told me that one of the best things about working here is that I would constantly be getting to learn new technologies. He wasn’t lying. In my second week, I was tasked with...
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This year, WordCamp Orange County (coming up on June 6th and 7th) is doing something a little different. Plugin-a-Palooza a plugin-building hackathon/competition that they first announced back in February. The rules are pretty simple: pitch a plugin idea, get it approved, write a plugin,...
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Most front-end developers glaze over at the mention of the word. However, having a strong grasp of how CSS Specificity works is key to minimizing tedious debugging. Specificity tells the browser what rules to apply to an element, and if there is a...
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Please join us in welcoming our new dev, Zach Owen, to the team! Here’s a little bit about Zach: Zach started working heavily in WordPress almost five years ago when he started with a content agency, and he was thrown head-first into...
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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...
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