Imagine you have been evaluating your web presence and have determined that there are tasks you need to work on to improve your website. After careful deliberation, your team has identified points A, B, and C are all either not working, or...
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Create a Simple JSON Endpoint in WordPress
As you may or may not know, the WordPress JSON REST API is on the horizon for a future version of WordPress. This will be one of the most important and influential additions to WordPress core we may see, especially for those...
Read More Create a Simple JSON Endpoint in WordPressUse Simple Page Builder to Add Unique Layouts to Your Content
We’ve previously talked about the WDS Simple Page Builder plugin. But there have been some exciting new additions to the plugin that make it even more useful, as well as a full wiki explaining how to use it (for both devs and users)....
Read More Use Simple Page Builder to Add Unique Layouts to Your ContentThe Future of JavaScript: ECMAScript 6 and You
Today, JavaScript fills every aspect of our online lives: it checks your e-mail in the background, it guides your online shopping cart, and it even autosaves your blog post as you write. From the client to the server, JavaScript is everywhere. Sometimes it’s hard...
Read More The Future of JavaScript: ECMAScript 6 and YouAn Alternate Git Flow for Client Work
We’ve mentioned it before, but at WebDevStudios, we use git flow–a specific git workflow first proposed five years ago, though the original author, Vincent Driessen, says he had been using it for a year before posting about it. Git Flow works best...
Read More An Alternate Git Flow for Client WorkLesson Learned: PHP Memory Limits
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...
Read More Lesson Learned: PHP Memory LimitsCreating Custom Templates for BuddyPress
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...
Read More Creating Custom Templates for BuddyPressCSS Specificity: What You May Not Have Known
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...
Read More CSS Specificity: What You May Not Have KnownCreate Simple Inline Media Queries with include-media
Lately, I’ve been thinking that our current method of using inline media queries throughout our Sass partials has not been flexible enough for the projects we’ve been building. While it was simple and allowed for easy implementation, I think it is time...
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