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How to customize WordPress search results page
03/10/2016
Hello! When designing websites, especially websites that have an active blog, it is often necessary to style, customize and design…
Create a custom mobile and tablet friendly dropdown menu in WordPress
01/11/2016
Hello! In our many instances where we are developing, designing and deploying a Wordpress site for a client, it is…
Create self-populating ajax drop-down forms in Drupal with the Form API
12/14/2015
Hello! At risk of making the title of this post a mouth full, I thought I'd share some of our…
Create your own WordPress shortcode that pulls posts from facebook page
10/21/2015
Hello there! In the same vein as our previous post that shows how you could create your own shortcode to…
Create your own wordpress shortcode to pull tweets from a user
09/18/2015
Hello! I'm of the opinion that it is better to code your own functions, shortcode and templates to accomplish even…
Use jQuery and CSS to make a sticky navigation menu
05/14/2015
Hello! Some may argue that sticky navigation menus (menus that are fixed at the top or bottom of the page…
Use PHP to set up a RESTful API with simple authentication
04/06/2015
Hello! It is sometimes necessary to bridge different web applications together in order to transmit or receive information and process…
Tips to secure your WordPress site
03/26/2015
Security is a huge deal. Sometimes your at the mercy of the open source solution or content management system that…
Pull JSON data from your website to your mobile application with Ajax and PHP
03/04/2015
Hello! Making mobile applications is much easier than it used to be. As with previous posts, we have been experimenting…
Detecting faces in your images with PHP , Javascript and jQuery
01/30/2015
Hello! In some scenarios with web application development it may be necessary to be able to detect the facial features…
Creating custom post types and pulling them into a custom page template in WordPress
01/15/2015
Hello! Occasionally in Wordpress it is necessary to push, what is primarily a blogging content management system, to its limits…
Load testing your web application
12/15/2014
Hello! These days with so many (buzzword) cloud services, the standard vanilla LAMP stack is slowly becoming a thing of…
Automatically tweet your Toronto Real Estate (TREB) listings
12/04/2014
Hello! A while ago we released a Python based solution to connect to TREB, pull real estate listings and post…
Detect browser type or device type and assign custom CSS in WordPress
11/27/2014
Howdy! With the advent of responsive web design in recent years, developing "mobile only" websites has somewhat become a thing…
Use Python to connect to a WordPress site
11/19/2014
Hello there! We love web development here at Shift8. We also love finding ways to automate and integrate different interfaces…
Make your own custom WordPress shortcode for pulling category posts
10/29/2014
Hello! Wordpress is a great entry level CMS that has a vibrant and extensive development community with many free plugins…
Varnish, session cookies and WordPress
10/21/2014
Hello! Caching is invariably the wave of the future. We have worked with many different caching technologies to leverage a…
Brand new company site : shift8 + django
08/28/2014
Hello! We have recently completely re-vamped our company website : www.shift8web.ca. We have decided to move away from a conventional…
TREB IDX WordPress Integration with Python : Integrate WordPress and TREB real estate listings!
07/16/2013
NEW : TRREB (Toronto Regional Real Estate Board) Wordpress Plugin is now available, click to read more or check out…
Javascript : Inject HTML Into a page without being disruptive
01/23/2013
Greetings! Occasionally it comes up in a project, for many different reasons, to utilize javascript or jquery in a user…
Frameworks or Traditional Content Management Systems?
01/23/2013
Typically for each client we work with designing a website from the ground up, we find ourselves evaluating one of…
5 Steps for a web designer to learn PHP
09/03/2012
In today's world it is almost essential, in the web design world, for a designer to wear more hats than…
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