There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks available. Version 2.1.0 adds the following features: “Feature: Add focal point picker to the Featured Product block, so…
WooCommerce Blocks Update – 2.1.0
News from Silicon Dales
Find company news here from conferences and accreditations to new team members and offices. You’ll also discover special offers, or other content which had no more obvious home than this, admittedly quite general, category (for that’s what this is, a WordPress category archive page).
Magento 1 Support End Date – June 2020 – Migrate to WooCommerce with Silicon Dales
Stores using Magento on Commerce 1 (Enterprise Edition) or Open Source 1 (formerly known as Community Edition) will have their software supported by Magento until…
WooCommerce Extensions Sale 2nd – 3rd May 2019
There’s up to 40% off on selected WooCommerce extensions from 2nd – 3rd May 2019. Here’s the full list with links to find out more…
WooCommerce 3.6.2 Update 24th April 2019
WooCommerce 3.6.2 was released on 24th April 2019. You can see the changelog here. Check out the Silicon Dales Guide to Updating WooCommerce before hitting…
AMP Version 1.1.1
AMP has released a new version of its awesome WordPress plugin – harnessing all the benefits of superfast Google infrastructure for your website, with the…
WooCommerce 3.6 Released
WooCommerce 3.6 was released on 17th April 2019. You can see the changelog here. There’s also an additional release, put out one day later to…
October – a busy month for domains
Namecheap have released their big data insights for 2018 based on 10 million domains under management. One of the more interesting insights is the impact…
Halloween Offer from Silicon Dales: 20% off Security Certificate Installation (HTTPS)
Keep your WordPress website visitors happy and help your search rankings too, by making sure your site security certificate is installed and working. Installation can…
A bid for freedom: moving online sales to Open Source
Migrating an online store to Open Source can be a great way to bust out of vendor lock-in and take back control of your business…
Instagram Has a New Logo
Originally posted on 13 May 2013. Among other things discovered this week, it turns out Instagram has a new logo. This came up while discussing…
Silicon Dales on GitHub
Back in 2015, we finally got Silicon Dales onto GitHub. It’s the versioning tool of choice for most of our partners and counterparts, so we…
WooCommerce Ends Gold, Silver, Bronze – Just WooExperts
This is a slightly retrospective posting, but we are delighted to announce we’ve re-signed our official WooCommerce accreditation for the future, only this time its…
WordPress 5.1 Update – “Betty”
There’s a new WordPress update just been released on 21st February 2019. Called “Betty”, the WordPress 5.1 release builds upon the new editor experience with…
WooCommerce Extension Sale – 22nd February 2019
WooCommerce are running a sale on their range of extensions for 22nd February 2019 only. The deal is as follows: All WooCommerce.com customers receive 22%…
Holidays Promotion: 20% off WordPress family brands
Working on your website this Christmas? Whether you’re sprucing up a homepage or preparing for January sales, there’s a festive treat from the company behind…
WooCommerce 3.5.5 Update – 20th February 2019
If you have a WooCommerce store, this week you will have seen a prompt to update to WooCommerce 3.5.5. This security & fix release went…
Black Friday Promotion: up to 98% off domain registration at Namecheap
Here at Silicon Dales we usually recommend Namecheap purely for domain registration, though the company offers much more in the way of hosting, security and…
Why Should I Get a .uk Domain?
As we are domain name resellers, and we often register domain names on behalf of clients, we’ve recently been receiving lots of emails about the…
FacetWP and the WordPress 5.0 Update
Here at Silicon Dales we’re keeping a close eye on the big WordPress 5.0 update, otherwise known as “Gutenberg”. One of the popular WordPress plugins…
Black Friday Offer: More than double the credits at ShortPixel
We like ShortPixel here at Silicon Dales. In our WordPress speedup guides, we reference ShortPixel as a good option for crunching all your WordPress images.…
Christmas Opening Hours 2018
If you’re on a maintenance contract with Silicon Dales, you will always be able to get a response in line with your Service Level Agreement,…
WooCommerce Developer in Manchester
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.…
Silicon Dales New Website December 2017
Silicon Dales has a new website. The focus during this re-build was on clarity and speed. We want potential clients and search engines to know…
Silicon Dales Achieves Accreditation as G Suite Deployment Services Specialists
Silicon Dales has achieved accreditation as Deployment Services Specialists for Google’s G Suite range of products. The certification involves training on complex migrations from Microsoft,…
Silicon Dales at Google Dublin Partner Meetup
The Silicon Dales Team took a trip to Dublin on 19th and 20th May 2016 for the Google Dublin Partner Meetup. The meetup was hosted…
Silicon Dales Now an Official Google Apps Reseller
Silicon Dales is now an official reseller for Google’s Gmail for Domains – AKA G Suite. This gives our clients access to a world beating…
Bookable Services and the Gutenberg Audit
For some time now, we’ve been developing ways to offer our personalized services and expertise as standardized bookable products through WooCommerce. Some in the industry…
#SteveJobsDay Offer – Get 20% off ApplePay setup on your WooCommerce store!
It’s #SteveJobsDay in California, but everyone’s joining in to commemorate the immensely influential front man of Apple. Whilst you could go out and buy a…
Cloudways Voucher Code – a 20% off Coupon from Silicon Dales
Remember when we told you about our favourite WooCommerce hosts, and we mentioned a service called Cloudways, which gives low cost all-but-instant access to managed…
Silicon Dales Now “Recommended Developers” for WP All Import
Silicon Dales has been listed as “Recommended Developers” for WP All Import, the premier Wordpress migration tool used by top developers. WP All Import is typically…