• Meet Mantle

    Allow us to introduce Mantle, a framework for building websites and applications using WordPress. Mantle is a layer that sits between WordPress and your custom code, providing you all the benefits of the WordPress CMS with a developer experience similar to Laravel.

  • An intro to styled components

    Senior User Experience Developer Jo Murgel created a short video course to explore a simple usage of Styled Components. Check it out!

  • Out in Tech & Alley

    Alley is committed to amplifying the unique voices, experiences, and career advancement of women, black, indigenous, people of color, LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities. It is our responsibility to address the shortcomings in the technology industry so we can begin to include and diversify not only our employee base, but also the communities we invest in.

  • A look back at 2020

    2020 was certainly not anyone’s favorite year. The way many of us live and work changed totally, and that was no different for us here at Alley. We usually take this time to share some of our successes and exciting announcements for the year, but instead we’ll be looking back at some ways we, and our clients, tried to make the world a little better in 2020.

  • How we’re building an equity-minded remote company

    You’ve heard Alley is a company committed to building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, and are wondering what actions we’ve taken. Over the past year we have focused on supporting equity at all intersections and improving team member learning and development as part of a long-term sustainability plan to embed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) efforts in all areas of Alley’s business.

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    Mythbusting continued: WordPress security

    WordPress itself is fundamentally secure and extremely stable. The vast majority of security issues with WordPress sites are caused by avoidable errors: failing to update WordPress core, using unvetted plugins, and using insecure passwords.

  • Rejecting master for main

    We all know that words carry power. A person’s word choice can make or break a conversation, a motto, or even a simple salutation. Seeing GitHub taking action with word choice, I decided to replace the default branch of this website’s repo from master to main.