Category: Employee Post

WDS Github Releases for May 2015

Every month, WDS releases a bunch of goodies over on Github (and occasionally WordPress.org and elsewhere). While we typically share the links on social media, we know that it’s easy for things to get lost in the noise, so we will be...

WordCamp Philly 2015 is Nearly Here!

I know you didn’t think we’d miss announcing the next big event we know we’re stoked on! WordCamp Philly 2015 is THIS WEEKEND, June 13th-14th! Although I find it hard to believe that any of our regular readers are unfamiliar with WordCamp (come...

Lesson 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...

The Death of Design is Highly Exaggerated

I am a humble designer. I am part of a wonderful craft that is often times misunderstood or oversimplified. I want to take the time from a designer’s perspective to illustrate why design will never die, but rather just be what it...

Creating 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...

CSS 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...

There and Back Again: A BuddyPress Tale

The Beginnings I am no stranger to contributing to open source. I have contributed in some way or another since early 2007, when I found a love for Linux and the Fedora Project. I was approaching the end of my time in...

Create 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...

A Day in the Life of a WebDevStudios Developer

A couple weeks ago, one of @WebDevStudios‘ followers on Twitter sent us this: @webdevstudios Hi! QuikQues: what's a typical day like for a WebDev? I want to compare to a IT Support person. Thanks!! — Tony Obfenda (@TonyObfenda) April 30, 2015 That...