05/06/2025We’re proud to announce that Shift8 Web, operating under Star Dot Hosting Inc., has officially achieved SOC 2 Type II…
01/15/2025Keeping your WordPress site secure is a task that can feel overwhelming at times—but it’s absolutely essential. Hackers love to…
12/13/2024For WordPress website owners, implementing proper security headers can significantly enhance your site’s security posture, shielding it from a range…
10/15/2024Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic and co-creator of WordPress, has garnered a reputation for erratic and often controversial business…
09/26/2024Without wading too much into the Automattic + WPEngine feud it has become evident that the availability of the Wordpress…- 08/23/2023Well it happened to you. You receive an email from a customer, or perhaps your web host : Your Wordpress…
03/10/2020Hello! There are several key best practices insofar as how to deal with security intrusions, including but not limited to…
03/26/2019Hello! Why bother writing a port scanner in Javascript you might ask? Well javascript is many things, however the majority…
11/02/2018Hello! Working with wordpress for a while now, we noticed that many actions, whether administrative in nature or building a…
09/13/2018Hello! In the past we have written about how to protect your Wordpress media files. In the past exercises we…
06/27/2018Need this implemented on your site? Click here and fill out our quote form! Hello! There are many…
03/28/2018* Update : Thank you Vice for writing an article about my script! Unfortunately it seems as though facebook is…
02/07/2018Hello! Recently we published guides how to push Wordpress sites with Jenkins or how to push Wordpress sites with a…
01/31/2018Hello! XSS (or cross site scripting) attacks are a common method to maliciously execute actions against a website installation. In…
12/19/2017Hello! We love integrating Jenkins into development workflow. Typically Jenkins would be used for custom development projects to streamline the…
08/31/2017Hello! With Wordpress security, there are many methods for hardening and tightening controls, methods for preventing common attack vectors including…
04/13/2017Hello! While the scenario may not necessarily be common in which you would want to encrypt your PHP code and…
03/14/2017Hello! Following with the theme of our last post, we thought it might be useful to demonstrate how to create…
03/03/2017Hello! There may be some scenarios where you might want to clone your site or push files to a remote…
12/13/2016Hello! We just released a Wordpress plugin, Shift8 Portfolio, to organize your portfolio in a grid using bootstrap scaffolding! This…
07/05/2016Hello! On top of developing and designing websites for clients in and around Toronto, we also do managed and dedicated…
05/13/2016Hello! Occasionally it was necessary for us to lock down some or all of the Wordpress media library from public…
06/22/2015Hello! There is many strategies for securing your code against malicious user input. Some frameworks have checks and balances built…
04/06/2015Hello! It is sometimes necessary to bridge different web applications together in order to transmit or receive information and process…
03/26/2015Security is a huge deal. Sometimes your at the mercy of the open source solution or content management system that…
