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PHP 8 was released on 26th November 2020. This is the latest version of PHP. A note before update Updating to PHP 8 is not without issues , particularly if you have older code. You will most likely get warnings and perhaps even errors coming from some of your scripts. If you’d like help upgrading …
WordPress 5.9 was released on 25th January 2022. You can see the news statement from WordPress here. What’s Joséphine got to do with it? WordPress names all its release after jazz musicians – this time it’s Joséphine Baker, a jazz singer born in 1906. New theme The new update ships with a new theme: Twenty Twenty-Two. Take …
WooCommerce recently relaunched its partner program for accredited WooCommerce development agencies and Silicon Dales have been announced as Platinum Level WooExperts. What does this mean? Silicon Dales have been accredited WooExperts since 2015. This means we know how to help with almost any WooCommerce project or task. Whether it’s recommending a developer, tweaking a plugin …
Silicon Dales attended WordCamp EU 2022 in Porto, Portugal, to catch up with the great people in the WordPress eco-system including hosting providers, plugin makers and, of course, the platforms themselves. It has been 3 years since the last European meetup and it was really refreshing to finally catch up with those we’ve been working …
Robin Scott of Silicon Dales was on BBC Look North on the evening of 16 May 2022, to discuss the recent purchase of Yorkshire.com and other Welcome to Yorkshire Ltd assets out of administration. Who Bought What? Silicon Dales Ltd acquired the following, out of administration: Yorkshire.com, along with 153 other domains; a range of …
On Thursday 6th December 2018, our clients will notice a new WordPress update. This is a big one – it will change the way pages and posts are made: the box you write in, called the “visual editor”. For most of our clients this will require a little bit of getting used to, and maybe …
Silicon Dales have just been named as AMP Experts, recognising our work in the field of speeding up WordPress & WooCommerce installations. See the listing here. What is AMP? AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages and is a way to serve webpages faster using Google’s infrastructure, thus not hitting your own servers and hosting. There …
There’s a great New Year’s deal for all you WordPress webmasters out there! Our friends at Codeable are celebrating their 4th birthday and are offering a $4 Hour-Long WordPress Consultation for any WordPress webmaster from 10th – 13th January 2017, whether you have a Codeable account already or not! Things you might want to cover: …
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.
Stores using Magento on Commerce 1 (Enterprise Edition) or Open Source 1 (formerly known as Community Edition) will have their software supported by Magento until June 2020. For those store owners looking around before deciding on whether to upgrade to Magento 2, here’s an introduction to how WooCommerce provides a convincing alternative. Scheduling a change …
