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Web Frameworks
How to Choose a Web Design Agency in Canada in 2026
04/25/2026
How to Choose a Web Design Agency in Canada in 2026 (With a Toronto Case Study) If your business operates…
Starting Web Design and Development Projects through Toronto’s Inflationary Landscape
09/03/2023
In the dynamic economic landscape of Toronto, where businesses must contend with various economic climates, embarking on a web design…
How to build a port scanner with Javascript using React Native
03/26/2019
Hello! Why bother writing a port scanner in Javascript you might ask? Well javascript is many things, however the majority…
WordPress plugin to remotely manage and automate multiple WordPress sites
02/23/2018
Hello! Being a Toronto based web design and development agency means that we interact with a significant number of Wordpress…
How to use Jenkins and Git to automate code pushes for your Laravel project
02/07/2018
Hello! Recently we published guides how to push Wordpress sites with Jenkins or how to push Wordpress sites with a…
WordPress plugin to integrate Jenkins to streamline your build process
12/19/2017
Hello! We love integrating Jenkins into development workflow. Typically Jenkins would be used for custom development projects to streamline the…
How to integrate Chart.js into WordPress Woocommerce to show charts and graphs of your products
07/12/2017
Hello! One of the nice things about Woocommerce is that it is very easily customized. Actions can be removed and…
Read and auto populate fields in WordPress Gravity forms with jQuery
05/10/2017
Hello! When designing and implementing Gravity forms there may be occasions where you would want to auto populate multiple fields…
How to encrypt and execute your PHP code with MCRYPT or OPENSSL
04/13/2017
Hello! While the scenario may not necessarily be common in which you would want to encrypt your PHP code and…
How to use PHP as a web service to backup MySQL over HTTPS to a remote destination
03/14/2017
Hello! Following with the theme of our last post, we thought it might be useful to demonstrate how to create…
How to create asynchronous non-blocking queued jobs in WordPress
11/18/2016
Hello! One of the projects that we are currently working on is a Wordpress plugin that integrates with the Toronto…
New Company Site Launch for Shift8 Web
11/11/2016
Hello! We are excited to announce that we have created a brand new website for ourselves! Sometimes its difficult to…
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…
Use PHP to send APNS iOS and GCM Android push notifications
08/13/2015
Hello! Through our own internal projects it has become a requirement in the past to implement a system that integrates…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…