There are a lot of things to take into consideration when it comes to capturing and retaining a website visitor’s attention. No matter what route you take, chances are you will make the use of media to do so, such as pictures,...
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Publish Information Quickly with WordPress
From pandemic statistics to election polls and results, now more than ever, news needs to publish quickly and immediately. It’s no wonder that big media companies, healthcare organizations, and educational institutions are depending on the power of WordPress to get content up...
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Are you in the market for a new website, but unsure where to start? The WebDevStudios (WDS) digital strategy team can take you from ideas to execution. We have a brilliant digital strategy team (featured in the photo gallery below) that has...
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When Matt Mullenweg said to, “…learn JavaScript, deeply,” in December 2015 (almost five years ago, wow!), he was laying the foundation for the WordPress Block Editor, Gutenberg, which is being built in four phases: Easier Editing — Already available in WordPress, with...
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So you want to learn how to start making your own WordPress API endpoints? Great! Today we will be taking a dive into what it takes to write our own restful API endpoints for WordPress starting from the basics and working our...
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The experiences on the web have gotten pretty bad. The latest trend of pop-up videos and ad-block interstitials (à la Admiral), banner ads that cause content and layout shifts, and sluggish interactions from heavy JavaScript execution is extremely frustrating for users! Google...
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Welcome back! In Part 1, we covered preparing our block for frontend editing by implementing unique block identifiers, rendering the block dynamically, and establishing a frontend component. Now, we’ll dive into the WordPress REST API to set up a custom route and...
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The WordPress Block Editor (aka Gutenberg), despite all the bumps along the way, has completely changed how we write pages and posts. Instead of a text document, we now have access to an interactive page builder of sorts while editing content, at...
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