WooCommerce 11th Birthday Sale – 50% off

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WooCommerce is celebrating its 11th birthday with 50% off automatic update and support licences. Get 50% off WooCommerce.com* until midnight on July 17th. Coupon: 11yearsofwoo Shop the WooCommerce sale *This offer is only valid on first-time purchases and ends at 23:59 PDT, July 17, 2019. Product subscriptions renew at regular price. Cannot be used in …

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25% off at WP Rocket – 6th Anniversary Special

WP Rocket are now part of the furniture. They’ve been around the website optimization block. They really know their stuff, and, their 6th anniversary has just come around. We love the WP Rocket plugin here at Silicon Dales. Check out this page all about WP Rocket to see how we’ve used it to speed up …

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Cloudways Summer Voucher Code – 30% off

Our favourite WooCommerce hosts, Cloudways, are now offering a summer sizzler – 30% off for 2 months: Code: SCALEINSUMMER Valid until: 8th July 2019 Use code You can read more about how to use your voucher code in Cloudways here. You can also read about why Cloudways is our favourite WooCommerce host here.

AMP for WordPress 1.2.0 Update 19th June 2019

AMP for WordPress 1.2.0 was released on 19th June 2019. You can see the notice here or the changelog here. Check out the Silicon Dales Guide to Updating WordPress before hitting update. What’s new? AMP Stories is the big news this time around – visual narratives and full screen experiences including animations and interactive tappable …

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What do I need to do about Strong Customer Authentication?

If you have a WooCommerce store which uses the Stripe integration, you might have received a message like this one recently: “New tools in the Dashboard to prepare for SCA” Hello, Last month, we wrote to tell you about Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), a new European regulatory requirement that will require two-factor authentication on many …

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Silicon Dales at WordCamp Europe: Berlin, 20th-22nd June 2019

Robin Scott from Silicon Dales will be attending WordCamp Europe from 20th – 22nd June 2019. If you’d like to meet up with Robin to discuss speeding up a WordPress or WooCommerce stack, get in touch with us, or message Robin directly on LinkedIn or Twitter. For more details on WordCamp Europe, see the official …

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WooCommerce 3.6.4 Update 27th May 2019

WooCommerce 3.6.4 was released on 27th May 2019. You can see the changelog here. Check out the Silicon Dales Guide to Updating WooCommerce before hitting update. If you’d like a specialist to run the update for you, book Silicon Dales today. We will: Setup a staging environment Run the updates and troubleshoot any issues or …

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WooCommerce Blocks Update – 2.1.0

There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks available. Version 2.1.0 adds the following features: “Feature: Add focal point picker to the Featured Product block, so you can adjust the background image position (only available on WP 5.2+ or with Gutenberg plugin). Fix: Improved fetching products from API, so searching for products in Featured Product & …

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