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...
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First 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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Read More WordPress Blocks Backwards Compatibility‘Tis the Season for Five for the Future
We can’t let the holidays get in the way of participating in Five for the Future this month. In fact, what better time of year to contribute to WordPress than during the holiday season? Open-source technology is the gift that keeps on...
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Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a relatively new problem in JavaScript development. Maybe I’m showing my age here, but I can distinctly remember when there were no concerns with loading JavaScript from all over the internet into your blog. It was new!...
Read More Resolve CORS Errors with WordPress REST APIMedia Solutions and Suggestions for Your WordPress Site
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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