I recently found a resource by BuiltWith Trends – an analytics company that provides free information on what Content Management Systems (CMS), e-commerce platforms, etc are powering websites they crawl. The most impressive piece of information is how many sites are powered by WordPress – see infographic below. A huge percentage of websites use WordPress [...]
WordPress 3.2 Released
With 4th of July also came a new release of WordPress, version 3.2. For our clients, the most important aspects of this release are the speed improvements and a change to the administration page layout. Also included in the release is a new default theme which obviously has no significance for AshWebStudio or our clients [...]
WordPress: How to setup named anchors
If you want to create a link to a point on a page, here is how to do so in WordPress. Often times this is used for an FAQ page to create a list of questions and link to an answer further down the page. This does require to use the TinyMCE Advanced plugin to [...]
Simple WordPress Banner Ad Manager
We needed to create a banner ad management system for a client and found all existing plugins either broken or not very simple to manage. We decided to create a custom one using Custom Post Types, post meta data and basic templates. We realized it was such an easy thing to put together, we figured [...]
Do you need a Content Management System?
Within the last 3 months, many of our clients have been coming to us wanting to be able to update their own website. Some clients are sick of waiting for days or even weeks on their “web guy” to make updates to their website. Others make changes so frequently they’d just rather do it themselves [...]

