Category: Products We Love

A New Year and New Learning

Will Schmierer on January 31, 2017February 6, 2017

If you can already believe it, we’re a month into 2017! The start of each new year is filled with new goals, things we’ll change, and things we’ll continue to improve upon from the previous year – be it personal or professional. With all the hopes and admiration we have...

My Local: Getting Started with Laravel Homestead

Jo Murgel on September 13, 2016February 15, 2017

Developers have their own way of working, and I’m no exception. With a half a dozen apps running at any given time to make my code structure, workflow, and deployments as smooth as possible, I depend on simple easy-to-use tools to get things done. However, the one thing that is...

10 Reasons Why You Should Be Using InVision as a Project Management Tool

jaimie on August 23, 2016April 11, 2017

One of the great challenges project managers run into is the best way to accurately scope a project with a client. To 100% nail down each user interaction is a hefty task. One of the biggest game changers when it comes to that process is a tool called InVision. We started...

Visual Composer: Taming and Customizing a WordPress Page Builder

Corey Collins on July 12, 2016February 13, 2017

Options are great. It’s always a wonderful thing to have options. I think most of us likely grew up being told that having options was important–for instance, fallback options, or when Plan A falls apart. Sometimes, though, too many options can create headaches and confusion. Maybe each new choice sitting in...

Unit Testing Your Plugins with Dockunit

Camden Segal on June 30, 2016February 13, 2017

I think we can all agree that unit testing is pretty neat. An automated system for checking if your code changes break any functionality is almost magic, and if you aren’t sure where to get started with it, you should read my previous post Unit Testing Your Plugins. If you’ve spent...

Getting Started with Flexbox: First Impressions, Tips, & Tricks

Will Schmierer on June 28, 2016February 13, 2017

Recently, here at WDS, we started incorporating Flexbox into our projects. I wanted to share some great resources I’ve come across to get going with Flexbox and highlight some of the early first impressions and some of the struggles you might encounter along the way. And, if you want to...

The PHPStorm Debugger is Pretty Awesome

Eric Fuller on June 21, 2016

In a previous post, I wrote about how awesome PHPStorm is in the context of being a front-end developer. In this post, we are going to look at getting the PHPStorm debugger setup to work with Xdebug and then test it to make sure it’s working! In my opinion, one...

PHPStorm for Front-End Developers

Eric Fuller on May 31, 2016

As a developer, front-end or back-end, there is no lack of strong opinions on why or why not developers choose their text editor or IDE. It tends to be a very personal choice. A few popular editors in use these days are Sublime Text and Atom. On the IDE side...

CSS @font-face: 2016 Edition

Greg Rickaby on May 26, 2016

Remember back in 2009/2010, when @font-face was introduced? Developers rejoiced, because they no longer were they forced to use a (small) handful of fonts! There were some caveats though…browser support was just okay. To make @font-face work across Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE, and mobile, you had to enqueue a bunch of different font file...

Easily Turn a WordPress Site Into a Desktop App

Ryan Fugate on May 10, 2016

Everyone is eager to turn their WordPress site into a mobile app, and we offer two services, Reactor and AppPresser, to help you to do that. However, as an alternative (or in tandem!), a desktop app may provide a good user experience, so I’m here to walk you through turning your WordPress site into a desktop app. We...