Category: WordPress

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...

SEO Considerations for Managing Multiple Websites

WordPress Multisite is a feature of the core WordPress.org software that allows multiple websites to be powered by a single installation of WordPress. There are several considerations to evaluate when determining if managing multiple websites through a Multisite network is right for...

Website Design Trends for Media Publishers

Website design trends for media publishers is a continually moving target. In this industry, the life cycle of a website can be much shorter than that of a small business or company, especially in the world of lifestyle blogs. Many of the...

Five for the Future: Midyear Wrap-Up

It’s that time of the year—time to dish out all the cool things WebDevStudios (WDS) did for the WordPress initiative Five for the Future (#5ftf) as we wrap up the midyear and head into a new season. For those who are still...

10 Reasons to Use WordPress for a University Website

Seven years ago, the first job where I used WordPress for a university website was actually while I was still in college. I was a work-study hire and responded to a job ad from a technical writer in the business college looking...

Beaver Builder vs Gutenberg: A Case Study

Here at WebDevStudios (WDS), we work on all kinds of projects that use all kinds of base themes and tools. Our internal theme, wd_s, uses Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) in a really cool way that makes it work like a page builder....