Category: Community

Asking Questions Makes Your Development Team Better

You’ve likely heard or experienced how awesome the WordPress community is, right? For a lot of us in the early days of getting into WordPress Development, it’s one of the first things you notice and it draws you into the community–in fact,...

Tech Non-Profit Spotlight: Girl Develop It

One of the major organs in WebDevStudios’ anatomy is its gigantic heart, and from it comes our contribution to the community in both charitable and educational capacities. As giving back is part of the core of WDS, it only made sense for...

Remembering Community in the Face of Negativity (AKA When .Org Users Attack!)

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that WordPress is actually a community. I’m easily reminded of the community aspects when I look at my Twitter feed–where I can catch up with awesome WP community members quickly, jump into conversations, or just revel in...

Tech Non-Profit Spotlight: Hack the Hood

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...

Empowering Women in WordPress

There's a dearth of women in tech, but there are female figures in WordPress changing the game. Here's Suzette on empowering women in WordPress...

How to Stay Healthy While Working from Home

Those of you who have the opportunity to work from home understand that while there are clear benefits to making your home your office, there are also challenges we face every day. While working from home, staying healthy can be a real...

WDS Holiday Charity Competition Recap

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...

Community Benefits from Peer Code Review

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;...

WDS Holiday Charity Competition!

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...