As accredited WooCommerce Expert developers, Silicon Dales offers a full WooCommerce optimization service to medium and larger Woo stores, but what do we actually do? Well, not everything in our toolbox is filed under “easy fix” but there’s a whole host of great ways you can get started on the road to a faster online store, by following the steps in this guide.
PHP (or WordPress) City / Locations to use for North American (USA) Timezones
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 …
Sample Code – Adding UPS Tracking Code to Links
Have you ever wanted to drop a UPS order tracking code link into your website (for orders) or email to customers, to allow them to “click here to track your order” and were wondering how to format this link? Well, wonder no more with a simple tutorial describing how to make exactly that! Sample Code …
Why Is My Website Slow?
This is a question we are asked by people on a regular basis: “Why is my website slow?” The answer provided here, since 2012, is generally speaking in a WordPress context – because we are WP specialists – but a lot of the rules will apply to really any website, particularly one which runs on …
How To: Leverage Browser Caching for Images, CSS and JS
Ever checked your website speed using GTmetrix, Pingdom, PageSpeed or Yslow… or any of the other many and various latest and greatest speed checking tools? ***2021 update: take a look at Lighthouse Well, if you have, you might have come across a request to “leverage browser caching…” or similar. What does “Leverage Browser Caching” actually …
Minimum Requirements for WooCommerce
Below are the minimum requirements for WooCommerce and (by extension) WordPress. Some are taken from WooCommerce, some from WordPress, and also, some, we are adding as recommendations. It should be apparent, below, which is which! Before getting started, if you’re here to assess a WooCommerce host, then you may be interested to check out our …
Introducing the “WP Rocket” WordPress Plugin
In this post, we describe the main features of the WP Rocket WordPress plugin.
- Extension Name: WP Rocket
- Developer: WP MEDIA
- Price: from USD $39
- Click here to download WP Rocket
Please note, Silicon Dales are WP Rocket affiliates.
Black Friday Promotion: 35% off WP Rocket licences
We love WP Rocket here at Silicon Dales. Check out this page all about WP Rocket to see how we’ve used it to speed up sites and reduce load on valuable hosting for clients across different industries and countries. For Black Friday 2018, the team at WP Rocket are offering a generous 35% off new …
25% off at WP Rocket – 6th Anniversary Special
WP Rocket are now part of the furniture. They’ve been around the website optimization block. They really know their stuff, and, their 6th anniversary has just come around. We love the WP Rocket plugin here at Silicon Dales. Check out this page all about WP Rocket to see how we’ve used it to speed up …