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Let’s face it; the native WordPress search is mediocre at best. The search algorithm takes only post title, content, and excerpt into consideration when generating search results. It also places extreme relevance on exact matches, which can lead to irrelevant results being returned for...
Read More WP Search with Algolia Tips and TricksWhen I narrowed my development career focus from the PHP world at large to WordPress land, one of the things I enjoyed was WordPress’ commitment to backwards compatibility. As my fellow Minnesota coworker and pragmatist, Richard Aber, would say, new features are...
Read More WordPress Blocks Backwards CompatibilityAs one of the most widely-used marketing tools, helping businesses, large or small, nonprofits, and individuals reach a greater audience, Constant Contact is the go-to solution for email marketing and connecting with customers. What many users and WordPress community members do not...
Read More Success Story: Constant Contact Forms Plugin for WordPressIn my last blog post, I filled you in on what’s new with the AMP Project and why I think it’s worth a second look. Today, I want to go in depth with the official AMP for WordPress plugin. Real Quick, What...
Read More Get to Know the Official AMP for WordPress PluginHere at WebDevStudios, we’re big fans of WooCommerce. Perhaps it’s no surprise that it is the #1 eCommerce solution for WordPress. This is in part due to the quality and flexibility of WooCommerce itself, but it’s also because of the rich plugin...
Read More Top 10 WooCommerce PluginsFor businesses big and small, there are countless ways to sell products and services online. Sites like Shopify and Gumroad make it easy to sell digital products using their online platforms. And, if you sell tangible products, you may have considered Amazon,...
Read More The Most Trusted WordPress Plugins for eCommerceFive for the Future (5FTF)—an ideal that WordPress companies should give 5% of their time back to the WordPress community. When I joined WebDevStudios (WDS) in April of 2017, I considered the company’s ongoing participation in 5FTF a fringe benefit. I was even...
Read More What Five for the Future Means to MeWebDevStudios (WDS) would like to proudly introduce you to BRAD. No, not Brad Williams, our CEO. We mean the WordPress plugin you didn’t even know you needed till now: Better Responsibility Around Discoverability, aka BRAD. Developers Aaron Jorbin and Andrew Norcross created the...
Read More Meet BRADHold on a sec, I need to dance. Now that I’ve got that out of my system, let’s move on. In 2010, WebDevStudios released the first version of the Custom Post Type UI (CPTUI) plugin to the WordPress plugin directory. At the...
Read More CPTUI Celebrates 2 million downloads!No matter how many fancy new ways of advertising pop up, email marketing is still the 800 lb gorilla. Why wouldn’t it be? You add a form to your website, people sign up because they’re interested, you send them emails about what...
Read More The Official Constant Contact WordPress Plugin is Live!