"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,...
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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...
Read More February’s Five for the Future Is Here!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...
Read More Ditch FTP and Switch to rsyncWP Search with Algolia Tips and Tricks
Let’s face it; the native WordPress search is mediocre at best. The search algorithm takes only post title, content, and excerpt into consideration when generating search results. It also places extreme relevance on exact matches, which can lead to irrelevant results being...
Read More WP Search with Algolia Tips and TricksFirst Five for the Future in 2021
The times may be unprecedented but WebDevStudios’ (WDS) dedication to giving back to WordPress is not! After donating over 1400 hours to Five for the Future in 2020, we are still at it with no end in sight. This Friday, January 29th,...
Read More First Five for the Future in 2021Headless WordPress and Headless CMS
What is a Headless CMS? The terms Headless WordPress and Headless Content Management Systems (Headless CMS) have continued to rise on Google trends the last few years, spiking last summer during the height of pandemic, as small businesses all over the world...
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What do you think of when I say “WordPress Contributor”? I’m willing to bet you picture a developer, whether it’s you or someone else. Or, perhaps you aren’t familiar with the concept of contributing to WordPress at all. If either of these...
Read More Volunteer for the WordPress Contributor Working GroupTop Blog Posts from 2020
The pandemic confined us to our homes for work, school, and entertainment, causing a 40% increase of internet usage. It’s no wonder that we at WebDevStudios (WDS) found more and more readers browsing our blog. After analyzing our internal data, we discovered...
Read More Top Blog Posts from 2020WordPress Blocks Backwards Compatibility
When I narrowed my development career focus from the PHP world at large to WordPress land, one of the things I enjoyed was WordPress’ commitment to backwards compatibility. As my fellow Minnesota coworker and pragmatist, Richard Aber, would say, new features are...
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