As we all know, running an un-managed server can be a hassle. There’s always something you’re not prepared for–and that’s what my story is about! Sometime ago I was dealing with brute force attacks, and during that time, I thought it was fun to...
Read More How to Avoid a Server ApocalypseCategory: Development
CSS @font-face: 2016 Edition
Remember back in 2009/2010, when @font-face was introduced? Developers rejoiced, because they no longer were they forced to use a (small) handful of fonts! There were some caveats though…browser support was just okay. To make @font-face work across Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE, and mobile, you had...
Read More CSS @font-face: 2016 EditionIs Clever Code OK?
“Clever code” is a term that you may have heard before, accompanied by sighs and groans from other developers. Often, people seem to think of clever code as annoying, and perhaps even harmful. In this article, I’m going to give a brief overview...
Read More Is Clever Code OK?Easily Turn a WordPress Site Into a Desktop App
Everyone is eager to turn their WordPress site into a mobile app, and we offer two services, Reactor and AppPresser, to help you to do that. However, as an alternative (or in tandem!), a desktop app may provide a good user experience, so I’m here to walk you through...
Read More Easily Turn a WordPress Site Into a Desktop AppA Strategy for Styling Gravity Forms
Over the past few weeks, there has been a lot of work done to the starter theme we use at WDS, known as wd_s. Everything from incorporating a pattern library, migrating our build system from Grunt to Gulp, and adding some really great...
Read More A Strategy for Styling Gravity FormsWelcome Custom Post Type UI Version 1.3.0
On Thursday, March 24th, 2016, we pushed out the latest version of Custom Post Type UI, now at version 1.3.0. This is our latest major version of the plugin. It brings in a nice number of changes that I will cover here. CPTUI...
Read More Welcome Custom Post Type UI Version 1.3.0Building Content Teams with WP User Groups and Custom User Roles
The WordPress user roles and capabilities system is built to be pretty flexible. There’s a hierarchy of responsibilities in place that can be used to inform a content workflow from lower on the totem pole to higher. But sometimes those user roles...
Read More Building Content Teams with WP User Groups and Custom User RolesUsing Sass Mixins to Power Your Projects
If you’ve followed along the WDS blog/Github/Twitter etc, you’ll know pretty well by now we’re a team that uses Sass as a part of our daily workflow for front-end styling. Sass is a powerful CSS preprocessor tool and it’s awesome. If you’re late...
Read More Using Sass Mixins to Power Your ProjectsThe Future of WebDevStudios Starter Theme: wd_s
This is Part III of a three part series about wd_s, our starter theme. Part I: History of wd_s Part II: Project Scaffolding with wd_s Part III: Future of wd_s To summarize the previous two blog posts: we discussed the history of wd_s and...
Read More The Future of WebDevStudios Starter Theme: wd_s