What Is a Crisis? A crisis is a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger. By this definition, a crisis one faces can be as simple as being short-staffed one night to an extreme of requiring emergency response to a tragic event. When presented with a crisis, how…
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Staying Organized Professionally
Have you ever woken up from a dead sleep thinking, “Did I send out that status report?” or “What was I supposed to do from last Friday’s team meeting?” There’ s nothing like the fear of being unorganized to disrupt your rest. In this article, I will give some…
Building Successful Client Relationships in a Digital Age
We need to reconnect with one another. -Jodie Riccelli Jodie Riccelli, Director of Business Development As the Director of Business Development for WebDevStudios (WDS), Jodie Riccelli is focused on building successful client relationships. She does this by doing nothing but communicating, all day, every day. She communicates with…
Tips for Organizing a WordPress Meetup
There are currently over 1600 WordPress Meetups, and that number continues to grow. Attending a Meetup event is a good way to become involved with your local WordPress community. An even better way is to start organizing a WordPress Meetup! When you are an organizer, people automatically engage…
WebDevStudios 2019 Year in Review
What an incredible 2019 it has been for WebDevStudios (WDS). It has been a year of great growth, expansion, and strategic change. We have attained some new exciting clients, launched a plethora of projects, expanded our remote team beyond international borders, hosted another successful company retreat, and by…
Going to Your First WordPress Meetup?Here’s What You Need to Know
One of the greatest things about WordPress is the community of developers, designers, and users who join forces to improve the platform and support one another to get the most out of it. That means that anyone, including you, can find a friend in the world of WordPress….
Website Project Problems You Might Encounter
Committing to a new website or a website rebuild brings on a roller coaster of emotions. There is usually excitement over a new functionality or an updated look and sometimes apprehension over the content on your current site. You will certainly feel many highs but also a few…
Holiday Fundraising for ASPCA and Semper Fi Fund
Regardless of the season, WebDevStudios (WDS) never stops giving back. Whether it’ s actively supporting the WordPress initiative Five for the Future (which we have done since 2014) or organizing, speaking at, and attending WordCamp conferences around the world, WDS is always finding an opportunity to pay it…
Ways to Improve Your Website for the New Year
The web is always changing, evolving, and growing. Here at WebDevStudios (WDS), we thrive on staying up-to-date on the latest trends to ensure the success of all of our clients’ websites. The end of the year is approaching, but there is still plenty of time between now…
Join Us for Five for the Future, Enter to Win a WDS Hat!
During his State of the Word presentation at this year’ s WordCamp US, Matt Mullenweg announced a directory of individuals and organizations pledging a dedication to Five for the Future (#5ftf). Since 2014, WebDevStudios (WDS) has been dedicating 5% of our company time to the project, designed to give…
Post Event Report: WordCamp US 2019
I attended my first WordCamp US event in 2015, and since then, I haven’t been able to resist making my way to it every year—experiencing each city and all the things that this national WordCamp has to offer. If you are new to the WordPress community and are…
Meet the First-Ever WDS Employee Experience Coordinator
WebDevStudios (WDS) is evolving. Our website projects are getting bigger and our team is expanding beyond international boarders. As such, we found our website design and development agency in need of someone to work with our Director of Operations to further shape and maintain our company initiatives and…
WDS at WordCamp Riverside
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…
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
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…
