WooCommerce 3.5.5 Update – 20th February 2019

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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 out on 20th February 2019 and it is recommended that stores update as soon as possible. Silicon Dales clients on maintenance contracts do not need to do anything. Click here …

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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 cloud hosting which doesn’t cost the Earth, and doesn’t require a sysadmin on your payroll? Maybe you don’t. Don’t worry, the important thing is: we have scored ourselves a unique …

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Silicon Dales Now Gold WooExperts for 2017

Silicon Dales have moved up to Gold level in the WooExperts programme for 2017 in recognition of our world-class expertise in WooCommerce development. The company joins just 15 other Gold experts worldwide, and is one of just 37 firms accredited as WooExperts as of 27th February 2017. Silicon Dales handles clients’ large scale website migrations, …

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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 used for importing large or complex product or post catalogues from CSV or other formats. The news comes in the same week that Silicon Dales achieved Gold WooExpert status, marking …

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The WooCommerce 3.0 Release – “Bionic Butterfly”

WooCommerce released a major update this week and, by the time of writing, have already released the first patch: 3.0.1. The release, named “Bionic Butterfly” for easy reference, has been feted for some time as it introduces a slightly new way of doing things from a WooCommerce developer‘s perspective . Full version notes are here. Patch …

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WooExpert Robin Scott Interviewed by Matteo Duò of Codeable

Our friends at Codeable have been producing developer interviews for some time now and it was the turn of Silicon Dales’ Robin Scott this month. Robin answered questions on his experience with WordPress, WooCommerce, the industry and associated business models, as well as the impact of partnering with Codeable. The interview is aimed at developers …

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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. About Silicon Dales Silicon Dales is a distributed team of WordPress and WooCommerce developers, who work on complex open source projects for small, medium and larger enterprises. Silicon Dales are …

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Introducing Codeable

Codeable is the No. 1 WordPress outsourcing platform, endorsed and invested-in by Automattic – the company behind WordPress.com, which is owned by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. Founded by Tomaž Zaman and Per Esbensen, Codeable is a Danish company which brings together WordPress experts with clients from around the world looking for WordPress customizations and business …

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GSuite now known as Google Workspace

What’s in a name? Google Apps, Google Apps for Work, Google for Work, GSuite and now Google Workspace – regardless of the name, these tools from Google are an immensely powerful way to organise email, docs, meetings and calendars within your organisation. Coupled with @yourdomain email addresses, it’s everything you need to host your business …

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Google service outages 14th December 2020

Google experienced multiple outages today, including across YouTube, Gmail and Docs. For a fuller breakdown of the services and regions affected, see TechCrunch. All services now appear to be back online and operating normally. To see the Google Workspace status dashboard, click here.