From time to time, you may get clients that want share counts to be displayed on their site. There are indeed SAAS (software as a service) services out there that do this for you, but what if a third party isn’t possible? Since Twitter...
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As mentioned in our end of year post, one of our goals for 2015 was to up our content game–and up it we did. Earlier in the year, I talked about how we have been using a collaborative approach to create content...
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Out of the box, WordPress has pretty great support for external object-cache implementations. Even its built-in object-caching helps WordPress be more performant and avoids redundant non-performant function calls and DB lookups. One of the challenges we have faced at WebDevStudios is the...
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The quest for a beautiful, responsive website is ever-present. As front-end developers, we know the tricks of the trade when it comes to making all of those fancy little features work from desktop to mobile. Whether it’s degrading hover-based actions gracefully or...
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On a recent project, I started to feel a bit overwhelmed with managing numerous layers with z-index. The thing about z-index is that all of the layers have to be in order, so I end up with multiple z-index declarations in multiple files...
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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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BuddyPress is always in active development, so new features, fixes, and enhancements are continually being released. Let’s go over some updates you might have missed! This is a real quick and dirty rundown with links to more information on each bit, but let...
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