Based on the popular “ Tell Me Without Telling Me ” Twitter and TikTok challenge, this blog post focuses on how to acquire respect, admiration, and attention as a notable thought leader in your industry without blatantly announcing your expertise. Most of the leaders and experts I know…
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Understanding Neurodisabilities
People may experience permanent disabilities, temporary disabilities, or situational disabilities—all under neurological disabilities. All of these are important to be considering when you are building a website. -Christina Workman Christina Workman, Website Specialist Working as the Website Specialist for Maintainn, the WordPress support and maintenance division of…
Headless WordPress Webinar
Don’ t be spooked. The technology and strategy behind a headless content management system is not as scary as you think. That is why the WebDevStudios team of Headless WordPress experts are teaming up with Post Status for a free webinar on October 28, 2021 at noon Central Time….
WebDevStudios New Hire Experience
Let’s take a break from talking about WordPress acquisitions, new JavaScript frameworks, and the other usual stuff. Rarely does someone talk about their new job. In this blog post, I am going to share my new hire experience at WebDevStudios. Interviewing In today’s tech world, interviews get…
Day in the Life of a Technical Project Manager
Alex Juchniewicz, Technical Project Manager Alex Juchniewicz Job Title: Technical Project Manager Years at WebDevStudios: Almost 2 I get asked a lot from my friends and family, “What do you do for your job?” Even though I know exactly what I do, each time I explain it, I…
Another New Teammate to Meet
As WordPress expands and evolves as a technology, so does the size and skill set of the team at our WordPress agency. WebDevStudios (WDS) loves introducing the world to our newest additions, having just announced a new teammate last week. Frontend Engineer, Lindsey Bell, is no exception….
First Five for the Future of Fall
It’ s officially fall, and tomorrow, September 24th, WebDevStudios (WDS) officially dedicates the workday to Five for the Future (5FTF). More and more, we’ re hearing people talk about committing to this WordPress initiative. Folks want to know how to implement it, sustain the motivation, and keep it robust. In…
See Who’s New to Our Crew
It’ s not uncommon for a new WebDevStudios (WDS) teammate to have started off as a fan before joining our WordPress agency. Oftentimes, it’ s simply word of mouth that leads new talent our way. In the case of Lax Mariappan, Backend Engineer, it is both. Lax’ s story is…
Website Tips for Meeting Accessibility Standards
As we continue to bring more and more people online across the globe, the percentage of your website visitors that depend on your forethought of accessibility increases. Meeting website accessibility standards is no longer something you can overlook. It should be top of mind from the beginning conversations…
WordPress FSE and Block-Based Themes
WordPress 5.8 introduced a new mechanism to configure the editor based on theme.json known as Full Site Editing (FSE). Gone are the days of adding content to templates using HTML and PHP. Now, making updates to your site templates is as easy as in the block editor….
Quick Tip: How To Disable Next.js Telemetry
Want to stop Next.js telemetry? Here is a quick tip. You can disable it via the command line or via the environment file. If you are looking only at the command, you can skip this background information section and scroll to the disable section. According to the Next.js…
Meet Our New Teammate
We love learning interesting, cool details about our teammates. It’ s especially captivating when those tidbits of information correlate to their job roles at WebDevStudios (WDS). That’ s why we’ re eager for you to meet our new teammate, Adam Bates, Frontend Engineer. Adam’ s tale is uniquely fascinating, as it…
Doing Our Part for Five for the Future
WebDevStudios (WDS) is back at it! Tomorrow, August 27, 2021, our WordPress agency is spending the day giving back to WordPress via the Five for the Future (5FTF) initiative. That means our team will be working on WordPress support tickets, contributing to the core, developing plugins, writing WordCamp…
Why Our WordPress Agency Works with Other Agencies
At WebDevStudios, we work with clients of all sizes. For many of our clients, we are the only WordPress agency with whom they partner. However, for larger enterprise clients, we are one component to a larger partner program, which generally means we are one agency working with other…
Keeping Remote Work Culture Fun
Across the world, companies and organizations are struggling with building a work-from-home or hybrid workplace model to accommodate our changing times. WebDevStudios (WDS) is a fully distributed WordPress agency. We have been since day one. In fact, not only do we know how to successfully build a…
Writing Your About Page
People hate writing about themselves. In my nearly 25 years of working in marketing and communications, I have yet to meet a single professional who declared an eager desire to write about themselves. Nonetheless, it’ s an inevitable task you are bound to be cursed to tackle. Don’ t fret….
Finding Blog Post Ideas
Writer’ s block is one of the top three reasons why people struggle with blogging consistently (time and imposter syndrome are the other two). It’ s natural to get stuck, stare at a blank post page and think, “ What do I write about?” Don’ t panic. Finding blog post ideas is…
Make Five for the Future Part of Your WordPress Company
At WordFest Live, on July 23rd, three team members from WebDevStudios (WDS) joined together to educate attendees on successfully implementing Five for the Future (5FTF) at their WordPress company. While you can watch the post-event video, which includes a live question and answer session featuring WDS CEO, Brad…
Announcing a New WebDevStudios Teammate
Things are heating up this summer at WebDevStudios (WDS). Not only is our WordPress agency busy with exciting new client work, our team of technologists continues to grow at an impressive speed. Today, we’ d like to announce one of our newest Frontend Engineers, who joins our virtual offices…
Having Fun on Five for the Future Friday
Giving back is fun. As July closes, WebDevStudios (WDS) looks forward to having fun tomorrow—Five for the Future Friday. Our WordPress agency’ s passion for contributing to WordPress via Five for the Future is infectious. Some of WDS’ team members have recently mentored and shared with others how we…
