Category: RESTful API
12/04/2020
How to import your Zoom Webinars into WordPress as custom content
Hello! Now, more than ever, companies businesses and individuals are leveraging web based collaborative tools like Zoom. Whether it be for company meetings, training sessions or sales seminars, the idea is to use video conferencing technology to replace in-person interactions. Zoom has emerged as a leading player, being positioned favourably at the right point in […]
05/23/2019
How we created our own free content delivery network for WordPress users
Try out our Free CDN service by installing the Shift8 CDN WordPress pluginHello! We thought it would be an interesting challenge both from a DevOPS perspective as well as a web development and integration perspective to create our own fully managed content delivery network. Utilization of the network is geared specifically for WordPress users. The […]
11/02/2018
How to cache queries to admin-ajax.php in WordPress to improve performance
Hello! Working with wordpress for a while now, we noticed that many actions, whether administrative in nature or building a WordPress query on the front end, are dependent on the built-in admin-ajax.php or WordPress AJAX API. Since many 3rd party plugins depend on this Ajax API to dynamically push and pull data, it is unfortunately […]
02/23/2018
WordPress plugin to remotely manage and automate multiple WordPress sites
Hello! Being a Toronto based web design and development agency means that we interact with a significant number of WordPress sites. This tends to happen when a project starts (obviously), but often continues after a site is launched. This is something that we offer along the lines of “post launch maintenance”. By no means once […]
01/29/2018
WordPress plugin to get geolocation coordinates from a visitors IP address
Hello! We recently had a requirement from a client to generate content on a page specifically based on the geolocation coordinates of the visitor’s IP address. Now this sort of mechanism isn’t totally new, however we decided to develop a WordPress plugin called Shift8 GeoIP that would obtain this information and set it into an […]
12/21/2017
How to push your WordPress site with a simple bash shell script and integrate it with Jenkins
Hello! Previously we gave an overview of our new WordPress plugin to integrate your Jenkins build process within the WordPress administration area. The previous post gave an overview of how to set up Jenkins as well as how to set up the WordPress plugin. Where we stopped short is actually integrating the build script within […]
12/19/2017
WordPress plugin to integrate Jenkins to streamline your build process
Hello! We love integrating Jenkins into development workflow. Typically Jenkins would be used for custom development projects to streamline the development “push” process in order to seamlessly integrate code changes from a testing / staging environment over to the live environment. For frameworks like Laravel or Django, this works very nicely. Until recently, we haven’t […]
03/14/2017
How to use PHP as a web service to backup MySQL over HTTPS to a remote destination
Hello! Following with the theme of our last post, we thought it might be useful to demonstrate how to create a pure PHP based web service to backup your MySQL database to a remote destination (also with PHP) over a secure HTTPS connection. High level, all we will be doing is iterating over all the […]
11/18/2016
How to create asynchronous non-blocking queued jobs in WordPress
Hello! One of the projects that we are currently working on is a WordPress plugin that integrates with the Toronto Real Estate Board to pull new listings from their systems and import them into WordPress as posts. The mechanics required to connect to TREB are very basic. One might call TREB’s systems out of date. […]
07/05/2016
How to create a web interface to modify your AWS Security Group
Hello! On top of developing and designing websites for clients in and around Toronto, we also do managed and dedicated web hosting. This includes managing AWS Cloud infrastructure for our clients. When implementing infrastructure in general terms, it is generally accepted to take the approach to lock down as much as possible with respect to […]