Category: WordPress

WebDevStudios Products Reach the Next Level with Pluginize.com

We said last year that our focus would be on driving new products, with a focus on Maintainn, AppPresser, and some more things that were in the pipeline. Not long after, we brought John Hawkins aboard. Now, we are excited to finally...

Design and Photoshop for WordPress: Tips & Best Practices

Whether you’re a theme designer, freelance developer, creative lead, or any growing number of web-related job titles, chances are that you use Photoshop. Some, like myself, probably use it every day. If you’re designing the next big WordPress theme or slicing a...

Custom Post Type UI Version 1.2.0 Now Available!

It’s been awhile since we last visited Custom Post Type UI on the WebDevStudios blog. We released version 1.1.0 on June 12th 2015. Not long after that, Custom Post Type UI surpassed 1 million downloads. Since then, I’ve been slowly but steadily...

Integrating ElasticSearch with WordPress

High traffic sites that heavily depend on search can run into server resource issues and cause a sluggish experience for users. A good solution for this is to allow a third-party service to handle search for your site. We recently had a...

An Updated Overview of the WordPress JSON API in WordPress 4.4

I previously wrote about the first version of the WordPress JSON API here, but turns out, it’s not accurate anymore! Here’s an update of the code in that post; using this, you’ll be able to utilize the version two infrastructure of the API that is now in...

Another Awesome WDS Year Down and Many More to Go

As the end of 2015 approaches, we have joined the masses in taking stock of the passing year and started setting our sights on the next. The last few years have been a big jump for us and we’ve grown a lot....

WebDevStudios Dances the Calypso

Recently, Automattic (the company behind WordPress.com) released a pure JavaScript version of their website hosting and creation service in the form of a formidable desktop app called Calypso. The new WordPress.com codebase moves WordPress away from MySQL and PHP. It’s built entirely in JavaScript, and...

Getting Started with WordPress Hooks

It is well-known that WordPress is one of the most popular Content Management Systems available for building and maintaining a website. While a big part of that success is due to the ease-of-use, another big part of that is the wide variety of...

Loading the Optimal WordPress Object Cache Implementation

Out of the box, WordPress has pretty great support for external object-cache implementations. Even its built-in object-caching helps WordPress be more performant and avoids redundant non-performant function calls and DB lookups. One of the challenges we have faced at WebDevStudios is the...