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.

Resolving err_too_many_redirects

connections made with pins, wire and string

Have you seen the message err_too_many_redirects on a page or pages of your website? Would you like to resolve this? Sure you would! Read on… What err_too_many_redirects Means It doesn’t take a genius to realise what this error means, but its probably worth breaking it down. Error. Too many redirects. There is no such thing …

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IMAP Settings for Gmail Accounts

Are you looking to connect up to a business Gmail or normal Gmail account via IMAP and wanted to find the settings? Below you’ll find exactly this. Before getting started – allow IMAP for your Gmail account First, you need to allow IMAP for your Gmail account. Without completing this step, the information you collect …

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How to edit my business on Google

Have you got a Google Business listing showing up in Maps or in the right hand side of Google searches, and you’re wondering how to make an edit? Maybe your company name, address, phone number, web address, opening hours or some other detail has changed, and now dang it you just can’t remember how you …

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How Do I Turn Off the Pop-up Blocker in Google Chrome Browser?

Ever wondered how to turn off the popup blocker in Google Chrome? Perhaps you trust a site and you’re getting popups blocked? Maybe its happening on your own website!? Whatever the cause, if you’re having trouble with popup blocker stopping things you’d rather actually see, then the tutorial below will help you to get this …

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How to Block an IP Address from accessing your website

Looking to block a specific IP address from accessing your website? Maybe you saw some rogue activity, and its coming from a specific IP? Perhaps some IP address you can see spidering through all your content – and its not a search robot? Whatever the reason, if you’re looking to block a specific IP address …

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Google Workspace – Help, My Signature Input has no Image Uploads!

Here we have an uncommon Gmail or Google Workspace issue, which will affect users rarely, but when it does, will be most perplexing to the afflicted. Luckily, in this Google Workspace tutorial, we present both problem and solution. The Problem? On a recent support enquiry we found an issue where a user on a new …

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PHP 7.0 Reaches End of Life on 3 December 2018 😱

If you, like us, were thinking Christmas comes round faster and faster each year, then you’ll no doubt think it was only yesterday that the awesome improvements PHP 7.0 brought along with it hit our servers and started powering up our WordPress sites way better than PHP 5.6, which was itself cool for its era.

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How to get custom order statuses in WooCommerce

Ever wished you had a custom order status in your WooCommerce store? Did you want to add an “engraving” status, or an “out for delivery” status to your Woo store? Perhaps you wanted to message or email customers when you were doing some post-sale processing? Whatever you were looking to do, it you’ve made the …

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