Blog posts under the WordPress category

Advanced Custom Fields and Gutenberg

WordPress 5.0 ships with a new editor called Gutenberg. Here at WebDevStudios, we’re excited to build custom editorial solutions using Gutenberg and to see how the experience evolves from the classic editor. With that said, we’re huge fans of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). It provides...

Paths to Learning Web Development

Computer programming is a vast and complex field. For those interested in the ins and outs of engineering, determining a path to learning relevant information can seem incredibly daunting. Even once you narrow your focus to a particular area of the field,...

Modern Theme Development with Storefront

Storefront is a robust and flexible free WordPress theme developed by the team behind WooCommerce. Out of the box, Storefront supports deep integration with WooCommerce, which makes it a perfect starting point for developers to launch their projects. Storefront’s codebase relies on...

Introduction to End-to-End Testing with Cypress.io

The topic of testing comes up often at WebDevStudios—whether we’re on-boarding a new project, or we’re digging out bugs on existing work, and even when we talk about our own internal tools. Testing is a common part of software development that often...

Get Your WordPress Website Ready for the New Year: What to Do Now!

The year’s almost up; the time for family and festivities is upon us. Rather than making a New Year’s resolution to learn to play the guitar or eat your weight in ice cream (you should totally do both of those things), how...

Beaver Builder Custom Fields

At WebDevStudios (WDS), we’ve used Beaver Builder for several projects because it provides a quick and intuitive way for our clients to customize their websites. The development documentation for Beaver Builder is pretty good, however it falls short in one particular area: custom...

Five for the Future: September Wrap-Up

Is it us, or is this year flying by quickly? Seems like just a few weeks ago, we dedicated a full workday to the WordPress initiative Five for the Future (#5ftf). Oh, wait. That literally was a few weeks ago. Well, here...

Post Event Report: WP Engine Summit 2018

Partnerships are one of the many ways we grow our brand and provide world-class, end-to-end solutions to our clients. We look to establish relationships with key partners who we think would add value to or benefit our clients. One of those relationships...

Leaving Homestead: Finding the Best All-Around Local Development Environment

Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about using Laravel Homestead as my local environment. At the time, my only real options were Vagrant or MAMP as an Apple user. Since then, the number of options has increased slightly to include...

Five for the Future: August Wrap-Up

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill Giving back is important to our team at WebDevStudios. That’s why you’ll find us leading local WordPress Meetup groups, speaking and volunteering at...