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Silicon Dales have been Google Cloud partners for a number of years. You can find our Google Cloud profile here, in the Enterprise Center over at Google.com. If you are interested in booking Silicon Dales to migrate your business users onto Google Workspace, or to integrate your website with your Google Cloud products, please don’t …

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New WordPress “Race Maps” Plugin Built in Silicon Dales

This plugin has been closed and is no longer available for download. This morning, we committed the 1.0 version of a new WordPress plugin, called “Race Maps” to the WordPress plugins repository, on behalf of international running website, Race-Calendar.com. The plugin very simply allows bloggers with an interest in running, or health, to very quickly …

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Finding Us on Automattic’s Jetpack.pro

Automattic, the owners of WordPress.com, have recently setup a WordPress professionals directory, which they’re calling Jetpack.pro. You can find us (well, me, actually, as, like with Codeable, they’ve gone down the “human profile page” route (nudge 😉 ) and our profile has a human face… mine), at the following link: https://jetpack.pro/profile/robscott/ Its pretty cool that …

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A Web Based Electronic Safety Management System (WBESMS)

What does the abbreviation WBESMS mean? Well, sometimes it can be taken to mean a Web Based Electronic Safety Management System (WBESMS). Such systems control the placement, access and updating of Health & Safety related materials. Silicon Dales can help you to move such documents into the Cloud, meaning it is easy to access, store …

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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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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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WordPress 4.9.3 Released – Update! (We have)

A new version of WordPress has shipped today, with the release of WordPress 4.9.3. The release contains the following fixes and enhancements, as reported on WordPress.org: This maintenance release fixes 34 bugs in 4.9, including fixes for Customizer changesets, widgets, visual editor, and PHP 7.2 compatibility. For a full list of changes, consult the list of …

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Silicon Dales Managed Hosting Servers – Dirty COW Free!

There is a Linux vulnerability known as Dirty COW which surfaced a week or so ago, for which there have been frequent warnings around the Linux community pretty much as soon as the vulnerability was uncovered, as it is a particularly nasty one which can, in some circumstances, allow malevolent forces to gain control of …

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