WordPress, the titan of content management systems, is celebrated not only for its intuitive UI but also for the robust functionality that it brings to users. For developers and system administrators who yearn for a more powerful interaction with the platform, WP-CLI (WordPress Command Line Interface) unveils a realm where tasks can be executed with …
We sometimes talk on the telephone with various technology companies, and their representatives, and there’s still confusion over the pronunciation of MySQL. After 12 years since this blog post was written, the “two camps” still exist. Which are you in? Leave a comment, at the bottom of this post! Two camps, both alike in dignity …
If you’ve ever faced issues where UTM parameters are stripped from URLs during redirects on a WP Engine-hosted site, you’re not alone. Recently, a client encountered this exact problem, and after some investigation, the root cause was identified and resolved. Here’s how the issue was addressed and how you can fix it too. The Issue: …
A lot of businesses are now using video as a means of communicating with clients and customers. We, at Silicon Dales, fully advocate this. It is a great way to reach out to clients in a way they enjoy. Not everyone has the time – or the will – to read through your company messages, …
We often install the Open source (free, and developed by a community of programmers, rather than one, paid, team) Content Management System (CMS), WordPress. WordPress was originally a blogging platform developed by Matt Mullenweg, but, in its short history, the software, which runs on (also Open source) PHP and MySQL, has developed into far more …
Sometimes, we need to find and replace certain strings or pieces of data in MySQL on the fly, for example if we’ve changed a Top Level domain (TLD) and want to update a bunch of links all in one go. For those times, the following command can be issued: The code from the Gist above …
Following the End of Life announcement from Adobe Business Catalyst, it’s important to get your next CMS lined up. As WordPress experts, Silicon Dales is ideally placed to assist your organisation in replatforming to WordPress, and, where eCommerce is concerned, over to WooCommerce where required. The Announcements The announcements about the end of Adobe Business …
Scaling WordPress websites to stupidly big levels is something that makes us very, very happy. Over the past 10 years, I’ve overseen some fairly significant web applications, powered by WordPress, which pushed the envelope in terms of what the CMS can do. One instance saw us taking 5,000+ XML (NewsML + other types) files pushed …
We often install WordPress as a CMS for businesses at Silicon Dales, because we know how important it is for companies and small firms to communicate with their customers and clients. This does, however, introduce the business web manager to a new thing: moderating comments; and comment moderation’s ugly sister – Comment Spam! A lot …
In case you didn’t know (and why would you unless you were already watching us?), Silicon Dales opened an office in Manchester in August 2017. About Silicon Dales Silicon Dales is a distributed team of WordPress and WooCommerce developers, who work on complex open source projects for small, medium and larger enterprises. Silicon Dales are …
