Robin Scott is co-founder and Director of Technology @ Silicon Dales. Acting as project lead for major clients looking to improve and maintain their business web operations, Robin has overseen more than 1,000 WordPress build and development projects.
Robin is in charge of WordPress and WooCommerce Services for Silicon Dales.
Robin started with HTML and basic web development before university. Whilst reading Law at Newcastle, and during a period when the web was in its infancy, Robin was running web based businesses and experimenting with new CMS’s and email tools. After University, having won eCommerce and business awards, Robin took a year off to travel the world before working full time on the project which became Silicon Dales Ltd.
In the 10 years in between, Robin has overseen hundreds of WordPress development projects, including working with some of the biggest companies in the World.
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Below you can find articles published here at SiliconDales.com which were written either wholly or in part by Robin.
Sometimes you need to run WordPress cron a non-standard way, in order to guarantee successful execution on a regular schedule. The issue with “standard” WordPress cron tasks (which are a pseudo cron in themselves) is these are processed upon certain triggers, which run under PHP as your admin is loaded. This can both slow life …
Offloading the entire uploads directory into an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket helps to speed up a site and can also be essential if you have an especially large uploads folder which is preventing other processes from completing – for example: spinning up a staging environment. Benefits Saves money on hosting all the …
It’s nice when thing’s stay still – especially when you’re looking at a webpage. Simply put, CLS is a measure of how still a webpage stays while a user is looking at it. Google rates this as an important user experience factor. Cumulative Layout Shift scoring and how to improve your site’s score is a …
Looking at a WooCommerce client recently who has opted to display (albeit not prominently) out of stock products in their store, sometimes we were seeing those OOS (out of stock) products showing up in Related Products. Since there were 4 slots available, this would sometimes create an undesirable buying experience: why would anyone want to …
We noticed today was the 23 July, and, while it may seem an inauspicious date to most, for us, here at Silicon Dales, it’s a pretty cool landmark… As you can see in the featured image, 23 July 2020 marks 10 years since we incorporated the business. You can see most of the potted history …
A long time ago, I had occasion to WGET files from WeTransfer to a server after being sent a large file from a client, and being located somewhere with poor broadband. This happens to us less regularly now, but sometimes you maybe will find yourself in a situation where you want to get a file …
If you’re ever setting the PHP or WordPress timezone for a site in the USA, and you’d like to make sure you pick a city to match their timezone (and importantly include / not include Daylight Saving Time (DST)) then this is the tutorial for you! PHP Has America / City – But which to …
We’ve spent a lot of time over the years evaluating hosting for WordPress. We’ve seen the good, the bad and the downright ugly (GoDaddy, I’m looking a little bit at you, okay!?) and, as we’re honing our WordPress offering to offer maintenance and support for the very best WordPress installs out there, we’re always looking …
Clients often ask for our recommendation when buying web hosting for WordPress websites. Here, developer Robin Scott gives guidance on choosing the right home for your WP site. The below will be updated in future as recommendations are updated. Best Hosts for WordPress Here’s a list in order of my personal preference for hosting WordPress. …
