Category: Development

Rebuilding the Feature 5 Grid to Create More Than a Comeback

WebDevStudios recently completed a challenging, yet very satisfying, WordPress project for The Comeback, a popular sports fan website. Among many duties, our team was tasked with rebuilding the Feature 5 grid functionality and extending it to support multiple grids, archive pages, and update styling. These...

Evolution of CSS: Becoming a CSS Composer

I have been coding CSS almost daily for over 10 years. I don’t say that to try and establish supremacy, but merely to give some context to the subsequent observations. There are quite a few days I still feel more like a...

Tim Tam Launched in the US (and We Helped)

Australia’s favorite biscuit (remember, it’s not a cookie) Tim Tam has hit the US, and we’re proud to say that WebDevStudios (WDS) built the website for it. ItsNotACookie.com launched on January 17, and since then, our team can’t stop talking about it. Neither...

How to Migrate a Widget to a Custom Post Type

Recently, one of my favorite themes, Zerif Lite, was suspended from the WordPress repo. As I was reading about the issues involved, it got me thinking: Just how hard is it to migrate a widget to a Custom Post Type? According to ThemeIsle, this was...

Level Up With jQuery Dimensions

It’s hard to believe that I’m well into my second year of being a front-end dev here at WDS. It has been an awesome experience and I’m truly blessed to work with such a great group of people. Halfway through 2015, I officially...

My Local: Getting Started with Laravel Homestead

Developers have their own way of working, and I’m no exception. With a half a dozen apps running at any given time to make my code structure, workflow, and deployments as smooth as possible, I depend on simple easy-to-use tools to get...

The Six Questions Developers Need to Ask Before Turning in Tasks

Everyday I spend time working on products for our great clients, I specifically spend a great deal of it writing code and building features. But I’m not just creating new features, I’m also creating new opportunities…opportunities to break that product. Here are the questions developers need...

Winning With Code Reviews

Here at WebDevStudios we put a lot of emphasis on code quality. After handing off a product to a client, we never know who may be looking at and/or maintaining our code. We want to be proud and confident that the next...

Developer Devolution: Why I Stopped Using Vagrant

Vagrant is an awesome tool and works really well–for most applications. At WDS, a LOT of our peeps use Vagrant for their day-to-day activities, and chances are you’ve seen Brad Parbs‘ VV at some point, or may be using it right now. However,...