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WordPress is used by 65.2% of websites – even in a sample of the top million websites. It’s popular and it works.
In order to keep up with a changing world, the code powering WordPress is updated on a regular basis. As a result, the plugins, themes and integrations which work with WordPress also update on a regular basis (at least, the good ones do!).
Sometimes you need to run WordPress cron a non-standard way, in order to guarantee successful execution on a regular schedule. The issue with “standard” WordPress cron tasks (which are a pseudo cron in themselves) is these are processed upon certain triggers, which run under PHP as your admin is loaded. This can both slow life …
This tutorial explains how to use wget and WeTransfer, to direct files straight at your server or VPS. If you are working with watery broadband, then sometimes you might run into a situation where someone sends you a massive bunch of files, and these will take you all day to download. It is useful for to be …
We’ve been benchmarking Amazon EC2 server instances for some highly complicated PHP applications over the past week. During this time, we’ve discovered that XCache is perhaps the best opcode caching product for our purposes. If anyone would like a walkthrough for installing XCache on an Amazon EC2 instance, simply leave a comment below and we …
A long time ago, I had occasion to WGET files from WeTransfer to a server after being sent a large file from a client, and being located somewhere with poor broadband. This happens to us less regularly now, but sometimes you maybe will find yourself in a situation where you want to get a file …
There are occasionally times when you need to grab all your email from a Google Workspace account and dump it into a Gmail account, or vice versa, in which case, there is a way, below! You can find this, and more information on how to do this, on the Google page about this, here, too. …
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. We have a depth of experience in speeding up WP sites using AMP as well as harnessing a slew of other techniques and approaches to make sure users get …
Have you ever been on Google Docs and wondered “isn’t there some shortcut key for that?!?” Quite often, there is. Below are many of the popular keyboard shortcuts for Google Docs. Hint: you can find these while you are in Google Docs by pressing ctrl + / (on Windows) and obtain the full list at …
A long while ago, I wrote about how to get the strikethrough (which is like this) in WordPress, and it has over the years proved to be a surprisingly popular WordPress tutorial. Today, I’m going to post an even simpler tutorial, this time its for our Google Workspace clients who use Google Docs, and it …
