Category: WordPress

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...

Call for Beta Testers: Custom Post Type UI 0.9.0 Beta 1

Custom Post Type UI has been around for the better part of five years and is one of WebDevStudios’ oldest plugins in the WordPress.org repo. It has amassed over 640,000 downloads and maintains a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars. Since its...

Removing PHP4 Compatibility in WordPress Custom Widgets

There I was. Working on adding PHP docblocks to widgets.php in /wp-includes, like you do, when I came across this: So I set about trying to figure out the appropriate @since parameter to use. Do I base the @since on when the...

Five Reasons Why I’m Thankful for WordPress

As a Front-end WordPress Developer, I’ve become an avid reader of WordPress Tavern; their articles are always relevant to me and of a very high quality with just the right amount of new information. Their recently published article, 6 WordPress Things I’m...

WebDevStudios is Dedicated to the Future of WordPress!

At the end of September, Matt Mullenweg published a blog post outlining his vision of Five for the Future. DradCast interviewed Matt at WordCamp San Francisco 2014, here’s what he had to say: WebDevStudios is Dedicated to the Future of WordPress Since...