How to get a WP Engine account for under $20 a month

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We’ve spent a lot of time over the years evaluating hosting for WordPress. We’ve seen the good, the bad and the downright ugly (GoDaddy, I’m looking a little bit at you, okay!?) and, as we’re honing our WordPress offering to offer maintenance and support for the very best WordPress installs out there, we’re always looking …

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Evolution London Merger

As we approach the end of January 2014, Silicon Dales are completing a merger with London based marketing company, Evolution London, under which we will be taking all Evolution web design & hosting clients onto Silicon Dales packages. What this means for existing Silicon Dales clients Very little, except, with a rapidly increased hosting client-base, …

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WordPress 4.7.1 “Vaughan” Security Release & WooCommerce 2.6.12 Fix Release

New versions of WordPress and WooCommerce were shipped last week with many corresponding updates to plugins and integrations. WordPress 4.7.1. was a quick follow up to December’s release of “Vaughan”. As this latest WordPress update is a security fix, WordPress websites should be updated straight away if they haven’t already been auto-updated (some admins disable …

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Colour Trends for 2014

Shutterstock has released data on the most popular colours. The results are based on 400 million downloads from the popular image service, making this a reliable guide to the biggest trends in web palettes. It’s clear just from the cover page that photo overlays in Instagram and Twitter have heavily influenced many people, giving that end-of-summer …

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How to Help a New Website to Rank in Search Engines

Lots of new webmasters ask us how to get their website “higher in Google” or even how to place their website into the search engines at all. Firstly, there is no magic formula to putting a website high up in internet search engines. There is, however, best practice. It is a bad practice to engage …

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Facebook Page Cover Image Size & Dimensions

Because we’re regularly changing Facebook pages for ourselves and our clients, we regularly need to check the dimensions of various buttons and images to be used within Facebook. While the image sizes to be used for Facebook Apps are readily available in the locations they should be uploaded in the Facebook developer space, the same …

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Silicon Dales Now Official WooWorkers

Silicon Dales are now official affiliated WooWorkers. What does that mean? It means we’re experienced at integrating WooCommerce with WordPress and customising WooThemes to work well with your product range. What does that mean? We can make you an online shop which looks great and has been tested by millions of users around the world. …

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Black Cyber Holidays Deal: 35% off WP Engine

Is it a Black Friday Deal? Or a Cyber Monday Deal? It’s a big deal, we know that! WP Engine is offering 35% off hosting plans from Wednesday 22nd November 2017 until Thursday 30th November 2017. That’s a whole week to make the most of this super-generous discount. WP Engine is one of Silicon Dales’ …

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Reverse Date Order of WooCommerce Reviews – Show Newest / Oldest First

Sometimes you want to change some (seemingly) simple setting in your WordPress & WooCommerce website and you feel sure there should be “some setting” somewhere to fix it. For those times, we do the heavy lifting for our management clients, but for those of you learning how to self-host WooCommerce, we post tutorials. This is …

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