News from Silicon Dales

Silicon Dales named as AMP Experts

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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 …

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 June 2020. For those store owners looking around before deciding on whether to upgrade to Magento 2, here’s an introduction to how WooCommerce provides a convincing alternative. Scheduling a change …

New services in 2021 – Ometria, Sage & more

Over the past 12 months, the team at Silicon Dales has developed across a number of specialized B2B areas. Notably performing WooCommerce integrations with Ometria and Sage 200 (on-premises) as well as setting up full Purchase Order & invoicing systems for a number of enterprise B2B clients. Take a look at the new services: Ometria …

Black Friday Sale at EWWW Image Optimizer

Silicon Dales are big fans of EWWW Image Optimizer and use it frequently for clients. It’s also referenced in our guides for handling images and speeding up a WordPress website. EWWW are running two offers this Thanksgiving: Premium Compression API The Premium Compression API from EWWW Image Optimizer is a service which can be used …

We Have Moved to Manchester

We have opened an office in Manchester, UK, which will be our administrative Headquarters. This office is purely administrative, and the team is distributed, so in-person meetings remain by appointment only, and should be booked in advance. Silicon Dales contact information: Address: Silicon Dales Ltd, Lowry House, 17 Marble St, Manchester, M2 3AW Telephone: 0161 …

Setting up your team for remote work

Over the next few months, a lot of companies will potentially instruct their teams to work from home or from remote hubs. Here, we pull together some useful tips for setting up teams for remote work: Email We’re a little biased here, but after several years working with Google Workspace we’ve never had one complaint …

WooCommerce Working Well With WordPress 5.0

As the alliterative title suggests, this is a very quick post to confirm that WordPress 5.0, which was released last night, works really nicely with WooCommerce. Go to WooCommerce 3.5.1 (at least) first You should be aware, though, that you need to run WooCommerce version of at least 3.5.1 before you update to WordPress 5.0. …

A Fresh Look for Silicon Dales

A new look Silicon Dales website has just launched. If you like the new website and would like something similar for your own website, simply get in touch to discuss your ideas. Update – March 2018 To keep you posted on this, since going live on this version we have: Restructured our URLs Updated the …

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 functions and costs. Benefits Open Source is a great way to future-proof your eCommerce requirements. Here’s how it can offer improvements to the bottom line: Customization Take Open Source code …

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 be tricky, so if you’re seeing mixed content warnings, or don’t know where to start, book Silicon Dales today for SSL Certificate Installation, and get 20% off as part of our Halloween offer.

Simply enter the code “HALLOWEEN20” at checkout and let us know your preferred time to be contacted. Once booked, an expert developer will then be in touch to arrange the necessary credentials to begin setup.