Our February has been jam-packed with good times, from client launches to new employees, custom WordPress solutions, and work anniversaries. WebDevStudios (WDS) has had much to celebrate.

Join us in this celebration, won’t you? Keep reading to check out the latest company news at our WordPress agency.

The Dazzling Debut of The Pop Insider Redesign

Buckle up for an adventure because WebDevStudios isn’t just stopping with the successful project we kicked off for The Toy Insider. We are now revving up for the grand reveal of The Pop Insider redesign.

The Pop Insider isn’t just another website. Under Adventure Publishing Group’s brand, The Pop Insider is the heartbeat of pop culture fandom, delivering a daily dose of news, jaw-dropping giveaways, and top-secret insights into the hottest merchandise trends. In collaboration with WebDevStudios, The Pop Insider is also a WordPress Multisite wonder.

“We just wouldn’t be where we are now without WDS,” says Marissa Silva of Adventure Publishing Group. “We have had over 200% increase in traffic,” she reports. Get a full view of the WordPress project we customized for The Pop Insider by visiting the WDS portfolio.

Available Now! WordPress All in One for Dummies, 5th Edition

Last month, we told you it was coming. On February 6th, “WordPress All in One for Dummies, 5th Edition” hit the market. It’s available now at Amazon, or anywhere you purchase books.

Written by WDS COO Lisa Sabin-Wilson, the subject matter authority on WordPress and the For Dummies brand (John Wiley & Sons Publishing) franchise author, “WordPress All in One for Dummies” is presented in an 8-books-in-1 format, covering everything from theme selection and customization to web hosting, URL selection, and managing multiple websites with ease. WDS Director of Engineering Mitch Canter is the technical editor of this important resource.

Book Giveaway

To celebrate the release of “WordPress All in One for Dummies, 5th Edition,” WDS held a giveaway for our email newsletter subscribers. Everyone who subscribed to our newsletter by February 23rd was automatically entered to win a free copy of this book.

Congratulations to Laura W., who won a free copy of “WordPress All in One for Dummies, 5th Edition.” Are you subscribed to the monthly WDS email newsletter? You should be! Subscribe now. You never know when we might hold another giveaway for our subscribers.

WebDevStudios Solution to Move from Elementor to WordPress Blocks

Client after client has come to our WordPress agency seeking assistance moving from Elementor to WordPress Blocks. They feel stuck, and after attempting the migration themselves, they encounter layout errors.

Lucky for Elementor customers, the team at WebDevStudios developed a customized framework solution that fixes errors that occur after moving your company’s website from Elementor to WordPress Blocks. The video below explains more. Contact us when you’re ready to access this solution and move your website from Elementor to WordPress Blocks.

WordCamp Asia Happens March 7-9

It’s seriously one of the hottest WordCamp events in the world. In mere days, WordCamp Asia will take place in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 7-9, 2024. This WordPress conference holds a special place in our hearts as WDS Engineering Manager JC Palmes is the lead organizer of Contributor Day.

In the past, JC has served as one of the global leads for WordCamp Asia 2023. She is also the founder of the WordPress Iloilo meetup group and has participated as an organizer for WordCamp Iloilo events in 2019, 2021, and 2023.

Contributor Day is designed to provide the perfect opportunity for anyone to contribute to WordPress, regardless of skill level. Experienced contributors will be on hand to offer guidance. Hundreds of WordPress enthusiasts and top engineers are expected to participate. With JC leading the event, we know it will be a success.

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We thought the best way to commemorate this momentous occasion, both for the For Dummies brand and for WordPress For Dummies, would be to host a giveaway! It has been awhile since our last giveaway, so we figured this was the perfect opportunity to bring it back!

First, though, here’s a little bit from Lisa about where she was ten years ago, and what led to WordPress For Dummies’ creation. There’s no doubt that the book is considered a highly valuable resource to WordPress newbies, and with the increasingly popularity of the WP platform, it will only continue to remain so.

Read ahead for a little bit of history, and enter to win some damn good goodies too!

Ten years ago in Austin, Texas, I had the privilege to get asked to speak at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival on the topic of WordPress. Specifically, it was a panel presentation titled “How To Make Money With Your Blog Design Skills.” This was 2006, after all, and WordPress was only three years old and considered a great tool for blogging. Tools like BuddyPress and WooCommerce didn’t exist back then, but it was an exciting time to be blogging and WordPress was fast becoming the tool to use. This was also the first time that the topic of WordPress ever graced the stage at SXSW, and I was thrilled to be the one to bring it there.

It was at this event that I was first approached to write WordPress For Dummies. The discussion about it happened after the panel was over with someone at Wiley Publishing, who recognized the emerging popularity of the blogging tool. It was a brief conversation over brunch when I expressed my interest in writing the book and talked about my experiences with using WordPress. I had never written a book before and was completely honest when I told them that writing a book was not something that was on my ‘to do’ list in life; however, I was deeply interested in the topic of WordPress, passionate about open source, and had a deep understanding of the tool, from both a user’s standpoint, as well as a theme developer. I had, after all, built a small business around building web sites for clients with WordPress as the primary tool. It was a great conversation and I was excited to have been asked.

I flew back home to Wisconsin the next day and went back to my daily business of building WordPress sites for clients. Weeks and months went by since that day in Austin in March of 2006, and I had decided that the discussion on the book was one of those one-off conversations you have at conferences where everyone is excited about emerging, cutting-edge technology. I told myself, at the very least, it was flattering to have been asked and, at least for the moment, singled out and noticed for my experience and knowledge about the platform. It wasn’t until October of the same year that I received an email from Wiley Publishing with the subject line of “WordPress For Dummies … still interested?” and by November of 2006, I signed my first book contract.

There is, literally, a For Dummies book for everything! In the past ten years, I have enjoyed the unique privilege of writing books on a topic I truly love. This year, in May, the For Dummies celebrates their twenty five year anniversary of making learning easier for millions and millions of people around the world.

For ten of those years, it has been my great privilege for contributing my small part as the author of WordPress For Dummies (all EIGHT editions!), WordPress Web Design For Dummies and WordPress All In One. I’m excited to continue my journey with my readers, with WordPress and with Wiley Publishing and the For Dummies brand for many more years to come!

~ Lisa Sabin-Wilson

Here’s what we’re giving away:

• One signed copy of the latest edition of WordPress For Dummies
• One signed copy of WordPress Web Design For Dummies
• One signed copy of WordPress All-In-One For Dummies
• A WDS pint glass
• Some nifty stickers

And if we get more than 250 entries, there will be a surprise second prize as well!

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The giveaway ends Friday, May 6th at 11:59 AM ET, so GET YOUR ENTRIES IN WHILE YOU STILL CAN, and good luck!

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