The most popular CMS for websites is WordPress, currently standing at around 32% of the web. However, the team at Silicon Dales have experience with Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, CodeIgniter, ASP and, of course, the major platforms including Amazon, eBay and Etsy.
However your website or storefront is built, the Content Management System it uses can make a difference to what’s possible – from functions such as subscriptions through to search engine optimization extras like schema or content options like video.
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For many mid-cap and enterprise-level companies, choosing a content management system (CMS) is a significant decision that has long-lasting implications. Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and WordPress are among the top choices, each with its own set of advantages. However, if you find that WordPress better meets your company’s needs for flexibility, ease-of-use, and cost-effectiveness, you …
For mid-cap and enterprise businesses, the choice of content management system (CMS) is a crucial decision that impacts virtually every aspect of their online operations. WordPress has evolved from a simple blogging platform to a full-fledged CMS that powers over 40% of websites worldwide, including high-traffic and complex enterprise sites. If you’re considering replatforming to …
In today’s digital age, WordPress has emerged as the leading Content Management System (CMS), powering an extensive array of websites across the globe. From small blogs to large-scale enterprise websites, WordPress’s flexibility, ease of use, and robust feature set make it the preferred choice for content management. Its dominance is not just a testament to …
A lot of businesses are now using video as a means of communicating with clients and customers. We, at Silicon Dales, fully advocate this. It is a great way to reach out to clients in a way they enjoy. Not everyone has the time – or the will – to read through your company messages, …
We often install WordPress as a CMS for businesses at Silicon Dales, because we know how important it is for companies and small firms to communicate with their customers and clients. This does, however, introduce the business web manager to a new thing: moderating comments; and comment moderation’s ugly sister – Comment Spam! A lot …
We often install the Open source (free, and developed by a community of programmers, rather than one, paid, team) Content Management System (CMS), WordPress. WordPress was originally a blogging platform developed by Matt Mullenweg, but, in its short history, the software, which runs on (also Open source) PHP and MySQL, has developed into far more …
Sometimes, we need to find and replace certain strings or pieces of data in MySQL on the fly, for example if we’ve changed a Top Level domain (TLD) and want to update a bunch of links all in one go. For those times, the following command can be issued: The code from the Gist above …
We receive plenty of traffic from people looking for answers to various WordPress and other open source questions, here at Silicon Dales, as we’re constantly posting tutorials and items of information which are likely to be of use to novice and professional webmasters. If you’re looking to troubleshoot issues with auto-update not working on your …
Scaling WordPress websites to stupidly big levels is something that makes us very, very happy. Over the past 10 years, I’ve overseen some fairly significant web applications, powered by WordPress, which pushed the envelope in terms of what the CMS can do. One instance saw us taking 5,000+ XML (NewsML + other types) files pushed …
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 …
