WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that has been a game-changer for website building and management and for us here in Fort Collins at AshWebStudio. Over the years, it has evolved from being a simple blogging platform to a powerful website-building tool that powers over 40% of all websites on the internet. The open-source […]
For a recent multilingual project, we used Beaver Builder for the site build and TranslatePress for the languages. As the project progressed, we received a new requirement to make PDF download links available in multiple languages. We had various buttons and link modules used throughout the site. While TranslatePress provides conditional shortcodes, these would only work […]
When W3Techs recently announced their “Technologies of the Year,” it was no surprise that WordPress was honored alongside Google, Amazon, and a host of other innovative systems. After all, this was the seventh time in a row WordPress has been chosen as the leading Content Management System (CMS). That’s because industry insiders know what we […]
WordPress is made just for blogging WordPress does have it’s foundations as a blogging platform when it was forked from another project called b2 cafelog in 2001. Since then, it has seen rapid development and expansion in features and today is a complete, modern content management system. With thousands of plugins which extend it’s functionality […]
We have been offering custom web design for many years now and almost exclusively build client sites using WordPress as the content management system. WordPress has proven itself to be incredibly versatile and feature-rich. Most importantly clients have loved having full access to edit their website content on their own. However, as WordPress has grown to be […]
WordPress 4.3 has been released and it has some nifty little features, but nothing game changing. Formatting Shortcuts I am accustomed to using Textile markup while typing to easily add formatting without having to click on buttons to add said formatting. WordPress has integrated their version of this into the Visual Editor and I love it […]
WordPress will be rolling out automatic updates to the core in version 3.7. WordPress currently has a simple update system but it requires manually initiating that process. This new automatic update system will update everything without you having to touch a single thing. The Good The number one reason sites get hacked is because they […]
We were just updating a client site and needed to put up a temporary “Maintenance” page up while we did some major changes to their site. This little snippet should be included in your WordPress theme’s functions.php file. View the code on Gist.
So many of our clients have sent us articles about WordPress sites being under attack. There is a large coordinated attack currently going on. This attack is trying to take advantage of the fact that older installations of WordPress used to make the first user account on the site have the username “admin”. Combined with […]
Here at AshWebStudio, we use WordPress for nearly every single website that we build. Why? Because we absolutely LOVE IT. Here are just a few reasons why we think WordPress is the coolest thing since sliced-bread: Ease of Use One of the reasons we love WordPress is its ease of use. We are always super-excited […]