Category: WordPress

Huge WordPress Economy Growth Predicted by Global Study

The results of a global study commissioned by WordPress managed host, WP Engine, were released last Tuesday, June 8th. “The Value of WordPress” study showed the global WordPress economy is expected to grow to $636 billion by the end of 2021. That’s an increase...

WebDevStudios Named WordPress VIP Gold Agency Partner

It's with great pride that we announce WordPress VIP, the leading provider of enterprise WordPress, has added WebDevStudios (WDS) to its prestigious listing of Featured Gold Partners. WDS is one of only 14 partners in this prestigious group and the first agency...

More Ways to Contribute to Five for the Future in 2021

One of my favorite benefits of working at WebDevStudios is the company-sponsored opportunity to contribute to Five for the Future (#5FTF). Once a month, usually the last Friday, the whole company spends the day working on various projects and efforts that give back...

Quick Tip: Gutenberg Blocks as JSON

Big Ugly Blobs When WordPress saves Gutenberg blocks to the database, it smashes them together as a string of markup. When you query that via the REST-API or WPGraphQL? You get this big ugly blob of HTML: The screenshot above isn’t that...

Quick Tip: Add Custom Meta Fields to GraphQL

One of WordPress’ greatest strengths, at least in my opinion, is its ability to function as a general-purpose content management system. This is usually done through custom post types and custom meta fields. Putting them onto the website is as easy as...

Using Constants and Input Fields to Store User Information

One of the advantages of using wp-config.php is how it allows us to add configuration options for our theme or plugin in a central place accessible throughout the entire site or web application; but using wp-config.php assumes a level of technical prowess...

Why You Should Use Cloudflare for All Your Websites

What even is Cloudflare? According to Wikipedia… “Cloudflare, Inc. is an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain name server services.[2] Cloudflare’s services sit between a website’s visitor and...

WordPress Market Share Surpasses 40%

"WordPress is used by 64.5% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 40.6% of all websites" reports W3Techs who tracks these numbers from several sources, including Alexa's top ten million and Tranco's top million websites. Every year,...

February’s Five for the Future Is Here!

A short month won’t deter WebDevStudios (WDS) from dedicating the last Friday of February to Five for the Future. All a short month does is make the opportunity to contribute to WordPress happen sooner, and because WDS loves to participate, we’re that...

Ditch FTP and Switch to rsync

rsync isn’t new. It’s been around since the late 1990s. So why are we talking about this in 2021?!? If we’re still using SFTP for transfers to some hosts, it’s likely you may be too. But you may have also heard of...