When Brad Williams talks about building websites, he doesn’t start with plugins or page speed. He starts with a Commodore 64 and a number-guessing game he wrote when he was eight.
That moment, typing BASIC code from a book into a machine his family bought off a cousin ,ignited a career that would take him from Marine Corps programmer to co-founder of WebDevStudios. Along the way, he taught himself HTML on PageMill, got made fun of for using Macs in the ’90s, and learned that formal schooling wasn’t where he’d thrive.
So he joined the Marines. They trained him in Visual Basic, taught him to think in arrays and conditionals, and gave him a security clearance to work on military intranet systems he still can’t show in a portfolio. It was structured, intense, and formative.
After leaving the military, Brad entered the web professionally, and eventually stumbled across WordPress while at a conference in 2006. That moment shifted everything. He became a tinkerer, a plugin hacker, and then a WordPress agency founder. By 2010, he and his team went all in on WordPress.
Now, Brad’s latest project, ThemeSwitcher Pro, is another bridge. It’s designed for people stuck in the Classic Editor, helping content teams migrate one page at a time to block-based editing, no dev time required, no redesign budget needed.
It’s a clever plugin. But more than that, it’s a continuation of Brad’s whole philosophy: solve real problems with practical tools, and make the modern web a little more accessible for everyone.