Robin Scott

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.
Products and Services
Robin is in charge of WordPress and WooCommerce Services for Silicon Dales.
A brief history
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.
Robin Scott on the web
Links:

Robin Scott’s site;
WordPress.org profile;
GitHub profile;
Codeable profile.

Below you can find articles published here at SiliconDales.com which were written either wholly or in part by Robin.

What is the Cloud?

Put very simply, using The Cloud means putting your IT online.

What is Dropshipping?

One of those little questions which comes back to us from time-to-time at Silicon Dales, as a market leading eCommerce agency is this: “what does dropshipping mean?” Below, an answer.

How to find Apache version via Command Line

A long time ago, we published an item which showed how to discover your Apache version on a Plesk installation. Sometimes, people land in there looking to find their Apache version when they don’t have Plesk.

All our Gists now work in AMP & WordPress

A while ago, we started using Gists for code snippets in this site, and this has been a great way to share code and give back to Open Source.

However, since implementing AMP, this has not always played nicely when viewing pages on a mobile, via AMP.

That is now fixed! Any Gist you see in this site will now show up just fine when you visit the AMP version, too. Win.

WooCommerce Working Well With WordPress 5.0

As the alliterative title suggests, this is a very quick post to confirm that WordPress 5.0, which was released last night, works really nicely with WooCommerce. Go to WooCommerce 3.5.1 (at least) first You should be aware, though, that you need to run WooCommerce version of at least 3.5.1 before you update to WordPress 5.0. …

WordPress 5.0 is Live!

A short post about the latest and greatest WordPress release, WordPress 5.0, which is now LIVE and available for download.

This release contains a brand new editor experience, known as Gutenberg, which is a major change.

As a consequence, we recommend to update first in a test or staging environment, and, as ever, you should backup your files and database before attempting your update.

Can Gmail Reject Spam?

Sometimes our Google Workspace clients and visitors want to know how to stop spam in its tracks, before it even reaches your spam filter at all. Is it possible to reject spam entirely in Gmail? Well, the answer is, kind of. You have 3 basic options: The options to block spam in Gmail Block senders (described …

How to Fix WordPress White Screen of Death (WSOD)

Okay, so you got a problem? Your WordPress website just. Went. White!! In this WordPress tutorial, I will describe some of the processes you can go through to resolve your WordPress White Screen of Death (WSOD) quickly and efficiently, so that you can get your website back up and running; you can worry about the …

How to Delete a YouTube Video (2018)

Are you looking for instructions on how to delete a video from YouTube? Maybe you haven’t been on the platform for a while, and all the controls have changed?! Whatever the reason, whether you uploaded a funny video of treasured cat which you would like to take offline, or if your old video now looks …