Category: Products We Love

Brackets.io, How I Love Thee

Let me count the ways… I have been having a great time testing Brackets.io, the open source text editor by Adobe. Ever since switching from Espresso to Sublime Text, I have missed many of the preview features in Espresso…and then along comes Brackets.

Using MailPoet to Power Subscriptions & Newsletters

With all the options available today for sending out newsletters and allowing visitors to subscribe to your content, choosing one can be daunting. MailPoet cuts through all the headaches and makes the pain go away by providing a neat solution that is...

Using Browserify with JavaScript (and Keeping Yourself Sane!)

Working with code in the browser is a challenge. Not only do you need to manage the disparate behaviors of a variety of browsers and navigate the sometimes treacherous waters of JavaScript’s functional programming logic, but managing a wide array of dependencies and...

Filtering WordPress Form Data with Gravity Forms

WordPress filters are used to modify data before being rendered to the browser or saved to the database, and WordPress plugins typically provide filters to modify plugin behavior. Gravity forms is an extremely powerful form plugin that has many filters available. These...

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...

Win a Copy of Professional WordPress–It’s Easy as Pi!

If you’re a long time WebDevStudios fan and/or one of the brilliant people we’ve had the fortune of connecting with through the WordPress community, you’re probably familiar with the Professional WordPress books written by Brad Williams, David Damstra, and Hal Stern. The...

Displaying Your Popular Posts Using Jetpack

Every site owner who is posting fresh, new content frequently wants to have their content read on a regular basis. It does not necessarily matter if it is a returning reader or a brand new one, (though returning readers are awesome!), what...

Integrating Font Awesome Icons in bbPress

The amount of thought and time that goes into designing a universally accepted icon is amazing. Choosing when to utilize icons to represent interfacing elements is paramount to whether users will understand, and seamlessly navigate areas of a website. Previously, website icons...