Tag: wordpress development
01/17/2024
How to outsource WordPress Development and Ongoing Management
Embarking on a transformative journey to strengthen your online presence involves more than just outsourcing WordPress development—it extends to the strategic outsourcing of ongoing site management to seasoned agencies, adding layers of value to your digital footprint. As we navigate this comprehensive guide, our focus broadens from the intricacies of WordPress development to the seamless […]
06/17/2016
WordPress plugin to create animated full screen modal flyouts
Hello! We have recently created & submitted our first official WordPress plugin : Shift8 Modal. This is a relatively straightforward plugin that integrates the animatedModal jQuery library into WordPress as an easy-to-use shortcode. Submitting our plugin to the WordPress plugin directyl took roughly 7 days to complete. WordPress has pretty straightforward (though sometimes changing) development […]
01/11/2016
Create a custom mobile and tablet friendly dropdown menu in WordPress
Hello! In our many instances where we are developing, designing and deploying a WordPress site for a client, it is a constant necessity to implement a mobile / tablet friendly dropdown menu. Because this happens often, we have developed a “starter” mobile menu for our WordPress implementations. We prefer to create a CSS based responsive […]
10/21/2015
Create your own WordPress shortcode that pulls posts from facebook page
Hello there! In the same vein as our previous post that shows how you could create your own shortcode to pull tweets from a user, we’ve decided to make a similar post that shows how you could pull content from a facebook page and integrate it into your WordPress site. Sometimes it makes more sense […]
09/18/2015
Create your own wordpress shortcode to pull tweets from a user
Hello! I’m of the opinion that it is better to code your own functions, shortcode and templates to accomplish even simple things within content management systems, as opposed to downloading a free plugin to accomplish the same task. You might be asking “Why not just download a plugin? Its much easier!”. Well that may be […]
01/15/2015
Creating custom post types and pulling them into a custom page template in WordPress
Hello! Occasionally in WordPress it is necessary to push, what is primarily a blogging content management system, to its limits in order to create a dynamic website. The reason why it may be necessary to create a custom wordpress post type is in just that scenario where you need to create custom and dynamic types […]
12/04/2014
Automatically tweet your Toronto Real Estate (TREB) listings
Hello! A while ago we released a Python based solution to connect to TREB, pull real estate listings and post it to WordPress. We also posted a brief guide on how to use the Python script. With python, we are using the module wordpress_xmlrpc in order to connect to a wordpress sites via the XML […]
11/27/2014
Detect browser type or device type and assign custom CSS in WordPress
Howdy! With the advent of responsive web design in recent years, developing “mobile only” websites has somewhat become a thing of the past. That is to say we no longer need to maintain a separate version of a website for mobile devices as we once did. All that said, it is sometimes necessary to address […]
10/29/2014
Make your own custom WordPress shortcode for pulling category posts
Hello! WordPress is a great entry level CMS that has a vibrant and extensive development community with many free plugins and offerings to help extend your web installation significantly. Once in a while , either with a significant WordPress update or for other reasons, the default plugins wont cut it. Sometimes when you seemingly want […]
