Still reeling from the excitement of WordCamp US, our journey to give back to WordPress and the community continues as WebDevStudios (WDS) Senior Backend Engineer, Keith Frey, heads to WordCamp Riverside, November 8-10, 2019 in Riverside, California. His talk, “ Headless WordPress and You: A…
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Debunking 3 Project Management Myths
Have you ever heard any project management myths? Have you encountered them yourself? By the end of this article, the goal is to help debunk some common project management myths and help share some helpful knowledge along the way. Wikipedia describes project management as: … the practice of initiating, …
Five for the Future: It’s Happening Tomorrow!
As a multitude of WordPress developers, designers, users, owners, and fans currently descend upon St. Louis, Missouri for WordCamp US 2019 (WCUS) this weekend, those WebDevStudios (WDS) team members who are staying behind will be using their workday tomorrow, Friday, November 1, 2019, to join their WCUS-attending teammates…
Find This WebDevStudios Crew at WordCamp US
If you could only go to one WordCamp event a year, WordCamp US (WCUS) would be the one. Taking place in St. Louis, Missouri, November 1-3, 2019, WCUS is the WordPress hot spot of the year. And, every year, a portion of the WebDevStudios (WDS) team convene at…
Look Who Joined the WebDevStudios Team!
If you follow the WebDevStudios (WDS) blog (and you should !), by now, you will have noticed that we have been hiring like crazy and announcing new employees on a pretty regular basis. Well, here’ s another one of those announcements. Meet our newest Backend Engineer, Michael “ Mico” Joseph…
Integrating Advanced Custom Fields + Gutenberg Into wd_s
With version 5.8 of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), a new way to build Gutenberg blocks was introduced. The mission statement of ACF with this pivotal update was to: … radically change the perception of block development in Gutenberg by reducing learning time, hurdles, environment setup and JavaScript knowledge to…
Headless WordPress: Taking Posts Anywhere
What Does Headless WordPress Mean? WordPress as a content management system (CMS) is a platform for creating and managing your digital content. Your digital content can take the form of blog posts, events, products, team members, locations, and essentially anything you consider content that you wish to…
It’s a php[world], and We’re Going to It
![It’s a php[world], and We’re Going to It](https://wpnewshub.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/its-a-phpworld-and-were-going-to-it.png "It’s a php[world], and We’re Going to It")
Celebrating 25 historic years of PHP, php[world] is happening next week, October 22-24, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Featuring a keynote session by Samantha Quiñones, Director of Engineering at Skillshare, one day of training, two days of informational sessions and panel discussions, and even a 25-year celebration event that…
Meet the Newest WebDevStudios Engineers!
Business is booming at WebDevStudios. Client projects are on the rise, as more and more media websites, enterprise-level corporations, and educational institutions are relying on the power of WordPress to support their organizational efforts. We just announced two new project managers recently added to our project…
Want to Be a Project Manager? Check Out These Resources
Opportunities in project management are rising and pay is also expected to increase. Interestingly, there aren’t enough project managers to fill the growing demand. Now is the perfect time for you to transition to a fulfilling career in project management, and I know of some valuable project manager…
We Have Two New Project Managers!
As more and more businesses, nonprofit groups, media companies, and enterprise-level corporations are understanding the power of WordPress, with the platform taking over more than 30% of the internet, website design and development agencies like WebDevStudios (WDS) are growing because client projects are increasing. These same client…
Get Started Making Your Own WP-CLI Commands
Have you ever wanted to generate hundreds of user accounts or publish thousands of posts to your blog without ever once logging into your WordPress dashboard? You can do that and so much more with WordPress Command Line Interface (WP-CLI). What is a command-line interface (CLI)? A CLI, …
Welcome These Two to the WebDevStudios Team!
They say that change is inevitable, but growth is optional. At WebDevStudios (WDS), we’ re choosing to grow by leaps and bounds in order to support the success of our clients and their website projects. As such, we’ ve brought on board two new engineers we’ d like to introduce….
Things You Can Do NOW to Prepare Your WordPress Site for the Holidays
Yes, it’ s September, but before you know it, the holidays will be here. Time moves quickly, but if your website doesn’ t, you could be missing out on customers, sales, and sustaining the future of your online business. Do you have a strategy in place to prepare your WordPress…
See Ya at WordCamp Sacramento!
Sometime soon, in a city not too far away, WordCamp Sacramento (WCSAC) will be taking place. Our very own Senior Backend Engineer, Jeremy Ward, will be in attendance and presenting his talk, “ Modernizing Your Development Workflow Using Composer.” Happening this weekend, September 21-22, 2019 in…
Creating, Extending, and Upgrading Custom ACF Fields That Use Select2
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has been around for quite a while now, and it’ s super popular. We’ re on version 5.x now, and the earliest dated reference documentation I could find was for ACF 2.0 in 2011. There have been some bumps along the way. One of the…
Hashing a Custom Taxonomy
I have a confession. I like Pokémon. It’ d really be more accurate to say I never stopped liking it. Sure, there was that point when it wasn’ t “ cool” anymore and I was too busy trying to be “ cool, ” but this is the kind of thing that just sticks…
Meet Our New Backend Engineer!
WebDevStudios (WDS) is pleased to announce the addition of Backend Engineer, Scott Anderson, to our growing team! Scott is passionate about developing WordPress services that help organizations make a positive impact in their communities. Scott Anderson, Backend Engineer “ I’ve been a user and freelancer of WordPress for…
WDS Heads to WordCamp Las Vegas, Baby!
We just can’ t seem to get enough of WordCamps! Between the camaraderie among users and developers, seeing old friends and making new ones, and the wealth of information that is shared by expert speakers, who can blame us for being such big fans of these WordPress conferences? That’ s…
Working for WebDevStudios (After Self-Employment)
After eight years of self-employment, I started working for WebDevStudios (WDS) earlier this year. Officially, I started on April 1, 2019, which, if you’ re in the United States (or other Western or European countries) or are familiar with our holidays, you know is dubbed as April Fool’ s…
