Category: WordPress

New Media Expo 2015 Speakers Who Are Already On WordPress

The New Media Expo (NMX!) 2015 Las Vegas is coming up with a quickness! This year, the event will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center from April 13th – April 16th, 2015. We are stoked to say that WebDevStudios will...

The Question That Never Gets Old: WordPress.com or WordPress.org?

To start, this post is meant for new website owners and WordPress users. Those of us who have spent years learning WordPress know how hard it can be at the beginning, and it all starts with the basics; if you have any...

3 Great WordPress Themes for Portfolio Sites

Recently, we showed you how to create a filterable portfolio and included a free starter theme suitable for portfolio sites. However, if you’re more of a designer than a developer, customizing a starter theme might not be what you prefer to do....

Filtering WordPress Form Data with Gravity Forms

WordPress filters are used to modify data before being rendered to the browser or saved to the database, and WordPress plugins typically provide filters to modify plugin behavior. Gravity forms is an extremely powerful form plugin that has many filters available. These...

WDS Github Releases for February 2015

Every month, WDS releases a bunch of goodies over on Github (and occasionally WordPress.org and elsewhere). While we typically share the links on our social media, we know that it’s easy for things to get lost in the noise, so we will...

Lisa Sabin-Wilson Does the Design Bloggers Conference

As many of you already know, WDS folks are regulars at the tech events around the world–particularly when it comes to WordPress. We love teaching, we love learning, and we love meeting people in our community. Recently, though, Lisa received an invitation to...

Handling AJAX in WordPress in Style

AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) isn’t something that should be feared by anyone. It’s insanely powerful, versatile, and can provide your users cool experiences like processing forms without page redirection, dynamically loading posts while a user scrolls the page, and much more....

Empowering Women in WordPress

There's a dearth of women in tech, but there are female figures in WordPress changing the game. Here's Suzette on empowering women in WordPress...

Create a Filterable Portfolio with WordPress and Jetpack

Have you ever wanted to add a filterable portfolio to your personal site to showcase your content? In this post, we’re going to include simple scripts for you to add to your existing theme to help make it easy to add a...