Category: General

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...

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...

WebDevStudios and Maintainn are Hiring Developers!

One of the things that makes WebDevStudios (and our support team, Maintainn) work so well is our fantastic team. Maybe you’ve gotten to know some of us through meeting us at events, through Twitter , through here on our blog, or heck, maybe you’ve...

3 Great WordPress Themes for Portfolio Sites

Recently, we showed you how to create a filterable portfolio and included a free starter theme suitable for portfolio sites. However, if you’re more of a designer than a developer, customizing a starter theme might not be what you prefer to do....

10 Things I Learned Migrating Websites to WordPress

Since joining WDS, I’ve had the awesome opportunity to be a part of our internal migrations team and create scripts to help migrate sites for Microsoft to WordPress. It’s an ongoing joke about my joy for migrations because in my initial interview I...

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...

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. What if we could keep the embellishments in our stylesheet, minimize the HTML markup,...

WebDevStudios Does PressNomics 2015!

We’re excited to say that several members of the WebDevStudios team will be in attendance at PressNomics 2015! It’s almost here! For those of you who aren’t familiar: PressNomics is a conference that was started by Joshua Strebel, CEO of Page.ly, in an...

Getting started with Vagrant & VVV for local development

When I started doing web development, I think I started the way a lot of us did. You have a site you want to work on, so you connect with FTP, download a file, modify it, upload it back up, and then...