Category: Employee Post

The Question That Never Gets Old: WordPress.com or WordPress.org?

To start, this post is meant for new website owners and WordPress users. Those of us who have spent years learning WordPress know how hard it can be at the beginning, and it all starts with the basics; if you have any...

Use CMB2 to Create a New Post Submission Form

Here at WebDevStudios, we try to use CMB2 for pretty much anything form or field related. We do this for several reasons: It saves us time. It’s a framework that handles a lot of the nitty-gritty for us (creating markup, handling sanitizing,...

How To Create an Auto-Updating Widget Using WP-API

In my last post, I gave you an overview of WP-API. Read through that post if you need a primer on the capabilities of WP-API. For this post, I will offer an example of API usage and how it can benefit site...

Using MailPoet to Power Subscriptions & Newsletters

With all the options available today for sending out newsletters and allowing visitors to subscribe to your content, choosing one can be daunting. MailPoet cuts through all the headaches and makes the pain go away by providing a neat solution that is...

Photoshop Tools for an Efficient Workflow

The design process is changing, and with collaboration and iteration at an all-time high, it can be hard to keep it all straight when there are a variety of ways to achieve the same result. If you’re using a tool like Photoshop,...

How to Create Fantastic Content for Your Company Blog

Nowadays it’s considered fairly standard practice for every company to have a blog, but that doesn’t mean they’re always doing it well. We’ve all seen them–the company blogs that bore, that shove their product down your throat, that spread misinformation or otherwise...

Tech Non-Profit Spotlight: Girl Develop It

One of the major organs in WebDevStudios’ anatomy is its gigantic heart, and from it comes our contribution to the community in both charitable and educational capacities. As giving back is part of the core of WDS, it only made sense for...

The Role of a Project Manager

Why do I have a project manager on my team? What does my project manager do all day? Why am I paying for a project manager? The role of a project manager can be loosely defined as the point of contact for...

Using Browserify with JavaScript (and Keeping Yourself Sane!)

Working with code in the browser is a challenge. Not only do you need to manage the disparate behaviors of a variety of browsers and navigate the sometimes treacherous waters of JavaScript’s functional programming logic, but managing a wide array of dependencies and...