News from Silicon Dales

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 mitigate issues in some hosting environments – so if you haven’t updated already, consider skipping straight to 3.6.1 – changelog and notes here. Check out the Silicon Dales Guide to …

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 the social media buttons on a forthcoming project. “Hold on” I thought, “I’m pretty sure I don’t live under a rock, and should have noticed this!” Well, it turned out …

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 hauled our assets from internal tools and SVN over to GitHub. There was no need to swim against the tide forever! Note all of our projects and most of our …

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 slightly different, as WooCommerce has ended Gold, Silver and Bronze accreditations. Therefore, please note: if you see an expert claiming to be a Gold, Silver or Bronze WooExpert, then this …

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 some enhancements to the block editor, a few log issues and most noticeably for most of our clients, there will be prompts for sites running outdated PHP versions. View the …

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% off any order. Purchase three items and take 33% off. Purchase four items or more and get 44% off! So if there are any extra plugins or upgrades you fancy …

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 WordPress.com to help you on your way over the holidays. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack & WooCommerce, is having a 2018 Holidays sale at all three businesses, with 20% …

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 we love installing for clients is FacetWP, which creates rich search capabilities – including for WooCommerce. FacetWP have issued a note about potential issues with updating to WordPress 5.0 and …

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, even during Christmas – neat, huh? Support enquiries should go via email to your normal support contact and a response will be with you within 48 hours, though usually sooner. …

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 what we do, as quickly as possible.