Director of Engineering.
WordPress Developer.
Content Creator.
Hi there! I’m Mitch Canter, the Director of Engineering for WebDevStudios. I’m a skilled people manager and WordPress Developer based in Nashville, TN. With years of experience leading cross-functional teams to scale, I am passionate about helping others improve their coding skills and achieve their professional goals.
In addition, I regularly stream on Twitch and produce video content for my YouTube channel.
Mitch is Currently Accepting Freelance Work!
Want help with your next major initiative? Need a few tips on how to work with a livestreamer or content creator? Is your website in need of a redesign? Look no further! Hire Mitch and his team and get the help you need!
Latest Articles
I love to use my writing as an extension of the ideas and lessons I’ve learned over the years as a designer and digital strategist. This is a collection of the musings I’ve collected and transcribed.
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Fight for the User
Every year, 30,000 new products hit the marketplace. Products that have been properly researched, documented, engineered, and marketing. Products that every CEO and product manager will swear up and down is “the big one”. 95% of those products, by statistic, are destined to fail. It’s scary, as a product manager, to know that you are…
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WordPress: A Future of Many Flavors?
If you’ve been following along in the WordPress space lately, you’ll know that there’s a lot of discussion around WordPress – not of code, nor of content, but of how the software itself is managed. To put it simply, there are three parties involved: Matt Mullenweg, who the founder of both the WordPress Foundation and…
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How to Update WordPress Themes and Plugins on WPEngine (Without the Repository)
Skip to the Tutorial My head is full and my heart is sad tonight. Thousands of WordPress users are left in a strange scenario today as Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s CEO and founder, pulled access to the WordPress Repository for thousands of users on WPEngine. WPEngine is officially cut off from all updates – plugins, themes,…
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Governance in WordPress – and Open Source Software
WordPress has had a hell of a week. The roller-coaster high of WordCampUS 2024 ended with Matt Mullenweg’s bizarre and seemingly out-of-left-field rant against WPEngine – which finally culminated in legal actions. The weekend’s activity has left the WordPress ecosystem with seemingly more questions unanswered than answered. A quick search of Twitter or other similar…
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Your Next Block Theme: WDS-BT
One of the things I love about working at WebDevStudios is that we don’t hoard our knowledge like dragons. If we find a great way of doing something in WordPress, we do the best we can to find a way to get it in the hands of other developers, users, and even other agencies that…
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Be a Uniter, Not a Divider
*I work in WordPress for my day job, but a reminder that my posts and thoughts are my own.* A word of advice to anyone in management – whether it’s a C-suite, mid-level manager, or even someone who just has people under them that see them as a mentor. Be someone who unites, not someone…
Posted In: WordPress