Category: Development

Your Brand’s WordPress Plugin Requires More Than Development

From Constant Contact to Shopify, WebDevStudios (WDS) has proudly provided WordPress plugin development for big brands. However, there’s more to building a branded plugin than development. The truth is that a customized WordPress plugin built to represent your brand requires a team...

User Acceptance Testing

User acceptance testing can be boiled down to the execution of a series of test scenarios. A test scenario is a sequence of steps that make an important user journey. A user journey is defined as a natural or expected way an...

Start Your New Year Right With an Audit of Your Website

Any New Year’s resolutions you have set for your business will be well-supported with a website audit. Reviewing necessary repairs and improvements could be the leveling-up you desire. Keep reading to understand how you can start your new year right with an...

Integrating WP Search with Algolia: Autocomplete and Instantsearch Customization

In the first part of my three-part series, Integrating WP Search with Algolia, I covered settings and index management for a WordPress install. There, I shared details like managing indices settings, as well as controlling when products may or may not get...

Debugging WordPress Using Xdebug, Local, and VS Code

This post covers debugging WordPress using Xdebug, Local, and VS Code. This approach to debugging is far superior to logging variables to the error log or to the screen. Getting things set up correctly can be tricky. That’s where this tutorial helps....

Optimizing the WordPress Block Editor Experience

Our website agency is currently working on a Headless WordPress Multisite project using Next.js. Development is almost completed for this WebDevStudios client. However, as we’ve begun entering content, we realized that we can make improvements to the editing experience for the client....

We Built a Custom Gutenberg Block for a CPG Client

Early this year, one of our consumer packaged goods (CPG) clients came to us needing a new custom Gutenberg block. They were in the process of creating a new marketing campaign landing page and wanted to feature recipes by collection. This functionality...

HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 Flipped the Performance Optimization Script

Understanding the updates to HTTP over the last few years can help adjust asset delivery strategies to take advantage of the major advances in the protocol, leading to faster sites with better performance optimization scores. Below we’ll look at the evolution of...

Using the React Hook useEffect

React’s useEffect hook has to be one of the most useful React hooks of all. With applications leaning more toward functional components (as it is undeniably easier to read, maintain, and test), useEffect hooks are generally used to handle side effects of...