As WordPress continues to grow, online business continues to become more and more competitive, so naturally, search engine optimization (SEO) continues to be a top priority for many of our clients. A large majority of the sites we build are for clients...
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How To Make a Custom Field For CMB2
CMB2 is pretty much the best. It makes it super easy to add fields all over your site and it comes with a ton of useful fields by default. There are also a ton of community made fields out there for extending it with...
Read More How To Make a Custom Field For CMB2Anticipating User Needs: Create a Better Contact Form
Every company in the world is trying to sell an experience—from Apple to McDonalds to Disney World. Whether we’re truly aware of it all the time, we’re experiencing things every second. Someone is either selling us the experience itself, or that experience...
Read More Anticipating User Needs: Create a Better Contact FormThe Custom Post Type UI Million Download Celebration
In the spring of 2013, I was moved into a “Plugin Czar” position within WebDevStudios. This meant that I was now in charge of the support, maintenance, and development of many of our free plugins available on our WordPress.org account. Custom Post...
Read More The Custom Post Type UI Million Download CelebrationUse Simple Page Builder to Add Unique Layouts to Your Content
We’ve previously talked about the WDS Simple Page Builder plugin. But there have been some exciting new additions to the plugin that make it even more useful, as well as a full wiki explaining how to use it (for both devs and users)....
Read More Use Simple Page Builder to Add Unique Layouts to Your ContentWDS 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...
Read More WDS Github Releases for May 2015WordCamp Orange County Plugin-a-Palooza Entry: WP Art Store
This year, WordCamp Orange County (coming up on June 6th and 7th) is doing something a little different. Plugin-a-Palooza a plugin-building hackathon/competition that they first announced back in February. The rules are pretty simple: pitch a plugin idea, get it approved, write a plugin,...
Read More WordCamp Orange County Plugin-a-Palooza Entry: WP Art StoreGet a Plugin Kickstart with Yeoman & generator-plugin-wp!
Getting started on a new project is always exciting, but it often includes a lot of repetitive work, such as setting up the basics of your code that you need for any plugin, or downloading a boilerplate and filling in your project’s details. Yeoman...
Read More Get a Plugin Kickstart with Yeoman & generator-plugin-wp!WDS Github Releases for April 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...
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