Category: WordPress

5 Favorite WordPress Podcasts

When it’s time to take a break from projects, I enjoy listening to podcasts as a fun way to keep learning. With so much excitement surrounding WordPress, it can be difficult to stay current on what’s happening in the community and ecosystem. Podcasts offer...

5 Things to Consider When You Launch Your WordPress Website

When you spend weeks or months creating a new website or redesigning an old one, it becomes difficult to imagine life outside of development. You become laser focused on the big day: launch. You tell yourself that if you could just get...

How I Became More Organized by Learning to [Git] Ignore

Using Git is great for version control for your various projects, but sometimes your repositories become so bloated with testing and development tools that the project becomes difficult to navigate. Not to mention how much more bandwidth is needed to pull and...

Wild Wednesday: Five for the Future Happens Tomorrow

In the past, we have aimed to dedicate our Five for the Future days to Fridays, but since giving back should not be limited to any specific day of the week, really, we’ve opted to hold our next Five for the Future...

Debugging WordPress with Local by Flywheel, (neo)vim, and xdebug

Introduction Local by Flywheel is a popular tool for getting quick and reliable WordPress installations running on your computer. One of its lesser-known features is the inclusion of xdebug support. xdebug is a PHP extension that allows for real-time debugging of PHP...

Going to your First WordCamp? Here’s What You Need To Know!

So, you’ve decided to attend your first WordCamp—a nonprofit, volunteer-organized conference about WordPress and related topics. That’s great! WordCamps are excellent places to learn a new skill, get up-to-date on design trends, meet potential clients and partners, and geek out about WordPress...

WebDevStudios: Powered by WordPress, Powered by Music

As WordPress 5.2 is set to release by the end of this month, WebDevStudios (WDS) thought it would be fun to put together a Spotify playlist of WordPress music. Fans of WordPress are keenly aware that each new release is named after...

Ways to Learn More About WordPress

Anyone and everyone who owns, runs, and/or manages a WordPress website needs to keep their WordPress skills and knowledge up to date. Whether you are a business owner with a WordPress site or a content manager hired to run a WordPress site...

Why WebDevStudios Still Loves Page Builders

What better day than Valentine’s Day for WebDevStudios (WDS) to express our love for WordPress Page Builders? Don’t get it us wrong. We are on board with Gutenberg and look forward to its continued development. We set up Gutenberg’s Block Editor for...

Building a WordPress Theme: Things to Consider in 2019 (And Beyond)

WebDevStudios (WDS) is working to improve our theme framework wd_s based on Automattic’s _s; although at this point, it’s resemblance is only vaguely similar. WDS is dedicated to keeping up to date with the web development industry and making educated decisions about...