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Our Top 10 WordPress Plugins

Whether you are just starting out or are an experienced web developer, you know that there are thousands (currently over 40,000) of WordPress plugins to choose from for your website(s). It can be overwhelming for [...]

Up Up And Away!

Imagine you are with your family on vacation in mountains. There isn't much around you and you don't have the greatest cell service. At night you virtually have no connection. This isn't necessarily a bad thing because [...]

Will The Grid Make My Job Obsolete?

The Grid is a program that is still in development but has already put out advertisements galore, boasting an Artificial Intelligence capable of designing and building websites itself. It’s not difficult to find plugins that [...]

Testing Stripe with Codeception Part 2

This blog post is a continuation. Here is part I of testing Stripe with codeception. For our Stripe setup needs I created a utility class TestStripeCommons, which each test that requires a Stripe setup can call [...]

Testing Stripe with Codeception Part 1

If you’re using Stripe in your application you’ll want to create some integration and/or acceptance tests that actually interact with your Stripe account. So how do you go about doing so?

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WordPress Custom Content Type Archives by Year and Month

We recently had a client who needed archives of a custom content type by date within their WordPress website. While WordPress does a great job of setting up blog posts to be able to view [...]

Mautic: The 1st open source marketing automation platform

Are you familiar with marketing automation? Marketing automation is the idea that a software platform can help save your business time and effort with your marketing strategies. With marketing automation software you can nurture leads [...]

Which CMS Should You Use?

Did you know that almost 75 percent of businesses do not have a website? It has been proven that having an online presence can increase growth and sales. A website is essential for your business [...]

Code Editor for Email Designers and Developers

Do you use web design programs to create your email designs for clients? We all know that email and web design are different beasts. Perhaps you should consider using a program that was created specifically [...]

Receiptful for emailing your receipts

Receipts are necessary part of business. What if you could use your receipts as a marketing tool? WooThemes Founder Addi Pienaar, launched Receiptful on November 5, 2014. Receiptful is an application programming interface (API) that [...]

Front-end Frameworks for Developers

I created a short list of some front-end frameworks for developers. You can find many frameworks all over the web. However, picking the right framework for your project can be a difficult. It is important to consider and [...]

Readme.io for easy documentation

ReadMe is a developer hub for documentation. It is a tool for startups that help create customizable, interactive and collaborative documents that will essentially users on save time. Documentation can be difficult and is time [...]

Frontends.org for Web Development Discussions

  I recently came across a website community for front-end developers and web designers called Frontends. The Internet is full of these forums and communities for developers and designers. So if you are interested in [...]

Synchronize Testing with BrowserSync

BrowserSync is a web development tool built on Node.js for testing websites. BrowserSync synchronizes code changes across multiple devices and platforms. It functions much like the tool LiveReload, however, BrowserSync is a free to use [...]

HTML Tags: Details & Summary

HTML5 recently introduced new elements. Some of the new additions are <details> and <summary> elements. These elements function much like the accordion widget where the users must click to view more information. Both the elements [...]