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 …
The Client The EBRD was created in April 1991 to ‘foster the transition towards open market-oriented economies and to promote private and entrepreneurial initiative’. The Task Set up 2 microsites to host data from the EBRD Annual Report in time for the presentation in Marrakesh, Morocco, in the second week of May 2022: The 2021 …
It’s nice when thing’s stay still – especially when you’re looking at a webpage. Simply put, CLS is a measure of how still a webpage stays while a user is looking at it. Google rates this as an important user experience factor. Cumulative Layout Shift scoring and how to improve your site’s score is a …
Offloading the entire uploads directory into an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket helps to speed up a site and can also be essential if you have an especially large uploads folder which is preventing other processes from completing – for example: spinning up a staging environment. Benefits Saves money on hosting all the …
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 …
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 …
ThyssenKrupp engaged Robin Scott from Silicon Dales to create a WordPress-based microsite for their Supply Chain business, from PSD designs, within just 3 working days. thyssenkrupp strives to be the preferred provider of supply chain services for the manufacturing industry in North America. Part of a global conglomerate of more than 670 subsidiaries, ThyssenKrupp have …
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 …
The Client OffTheStrip.com serves Las Vegas locals and lovers with top quality news, reviews and pointers about the people, food and attractions that make the city such a great place to be. The Task Redesign and optimize a WordPress based magazine website to enhance user experience and – as a result – improve search engine …
