Category: Employee Post

Tech Non-Profit Spotlight: Hack the Hood

Prior to becoming a writer and communications dork, I was immersed in the non-profit world. From non-profits that focused on the arts to those that offered direct assistance to underserved communities, playing small time Wonder Woman (or trying, at least) was my...

Using Git Flow and Forget to Branch? Stash it.

Here at WebDevStudios, we use a variation of the Git workflow known as Git Flow. One of the benefits of using Git is quick and easy branching and merging without conflicts. Git Flow makes extensive use of branches to ensure that work...

How to Set Up HTTPS on WordPress Multisite Without Headaches

Editor’s note: This blog post was updated on June 27, 2018. Every couple months or so, Google seems to like to shake things up a bit and add some new criteria by which they rank sites. One of the most recent of...

A Beginner’s Guide to the Best Command Line Tools

As someone who loves the command line, I’m always striving to make my workflow easier, more efficient, and just overall better. Hopefully, by walking through my set up and my recommendations for the best command line tools, you’ll find some nifty tips...

Empowering Women in WordPress

There's a dearth of women in tech, but there are female figures in WordPress changing the game. Here's Suzette on empowering women in WordPress...

CMB2 WordPress Plugin: What is it good for? Absolutely everything!

What happened to Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress? Is this an actual plugin? Do I need to use CMB2 instead? These are a few of the types of questions I get asked when talking about CMB2. I agree–it IS confusing! With...

What to Consider When Creating a Multilingual Site

Multilingual websites are becoming more and more common these days as WordPress becomes increasing popular and even more powerful with an enormous community. When starting out a multilingual site, there are a number of things to consider and some important elements to keep in...

Mapping Icon Fonts with Sass

I love Sass, and I love using icon fonts. However, I do not like the limitations of using inline non-semantic, presentational markup to place these wonderful symbols, e.g. [snippet slug=font-icon-non-semantic lang=html line_numbers=false] What if we could keep the embellishments in our stylesheet,...

Checking Plugin Activation Status on Multisite Networks

Recently Chris Reynolds brought up an issue he was experiencing with one of our client projects; he was struggling to compare the current active status for plugins in a multisite network between internal dev servers and a WPEngine staging site so that...