Tag: WordPress

Best Practices for WordPress Website Image Optimization

The most significant consideration for building or maintaining a website these days is speed. Ensuring that your site moves quickly and supports speeds down to mobile 3G is vital in providing the best possible user experience (UX) to the largest percentage of...

The Journey to 1.0 — WDS Blocks and WordPress Gutenberg

WordPress made a big leap into the world of modern web development with its announcement of Gutenberg last year—reimagining what WordPress is and can be by providing a new interface for creating content built partially on the React.js platform. Since it will...

Evolution of CSS: Becoming a CSS Composer

I have been coding CSS almost daily for over 10 years. I don’t say that to try and establish supremacy, but merely to give some context to the subsequent observations. There are quite a few days I still feel more like a...

Our Redesign for The Sports Geek Is a Sure Bet

WebDevStudios is thrilled to announce the launch of the new and improved TheSportsGeek.com! Working with Kevin McClelland, editor of The Sports Geek, was exciting. The challenge that he presented included the requests for a fresh redesign, a logo refresh, and a full-site-rebuild on WordPress. The original website...

How to Migrate a Widget to a Custom Post Type

Recently, one of my favorite themes, Zerif Lite, was suspended from the WordPress repo. As I was reading about the issues involved, it got me thinking: Just how hard is it to migrate a widget to a Custom Post Type? According to ThemeIsle, this was...

How to Download FTP Files in WordPress

Recently, I was given the opportunity to work on a really cool importing project that involved us pulling data from an FTP server and importing that into WordPress. It led me to look deeper into the Filesystem API; WordPress does this already, and I...

Free Webinar: Turn Your WordPress Site Into a Mobile App

Wow, where does the time go? It has already been two months since our previous webinar. As you may recall, our CEO, Brad Williams, shared his experience working with WordPress in the enterprise space. The hour-long webinar was filled with great information...

What WDS Did for Five for the Future: July 2016

Last week, Brad popped in to tell you about the changes we’ve made to how we do Five for the Future. We had our first full day of #5FTF, rather than two hours per employee every Monday, last week, and I’m here to forward...

A Change in Five for the Future at WebDevStudios

For almost two years now, WebDevStudios has been participating in the Five for the Future movement. During that time we have contributed thousands of hours to the WordPress community across various projects. Contributing to the WordPress community, and open source in general,...