Category: WordPress

Get to Know the Official AMP for WordPress Plugin

In my last blog post, I filled you in on what’s new with the AMP Project and why I think it’s worth a second look. Today, I want to go in depth with the official AMP for WordPress plugin. Real Quick, What...

Update Smart: Using a Staging Site!

Using a staging site to perform integral WordPress updates could save you from the white screen of death! Meagan Hanes, Technical Project Manager at Maintainn, the maintenance, support, hosting, and small business web design division of WebDevStudios, has been on the road...

AMP ⚡️ More Than Just Mobile Pages

If you’re like me, then you’ve heard of the AMP Project. It was announced by Google about four years ago as a way to improve mobile performance on the web. You may have even installed the AMP for WordPress plugin and then...

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....

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...