FacetWP and the WordPress 5.0 Update

FacetWP

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 …

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How to Delete All Spam on Gmail / Google Workspace

If you’re looking to delete spam on your Google Mail account (whether Gmail or Google Workspace) the following instructions will get you there. Note spam will automatically be deleted after 30 days, and you can use mail filters to automatically remove spam (not recommended in case of false positives). How to Delete All Spam from …

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How to Automatically Delete Spam Email from Gmail

If you use Gmail – or Google Workspace (formerly Google Apps) – based email, you might find, over time, you start to collect a lot of spam in your “Spam” (junk) folder. In particular, if you use an email client, via IMAP, and you like to use your own junk filter on email on your …

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How To Use Shortcodes in WordPress Widgets

Shortcodes are great, and can be used for a variety of purposes within WordPress to cut out the hassle of adding code all over the place. Even better, shortcodes allow you to edit things centrally and have them updated wherever they appear across your blog. But, often, we find, our clients would like a feature …

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How to Exclude Photos from a WordPress Gallery

We often use WordPress’s in-built “Gallery” function to display all of the photographs we’ve added to a WordPress post or page. This is done by adding the Gallery shortcode, into a WordPress post or page (after, of course, having added some pictures to that post!): [gallery] Sometimes, though, you don’t want to include all your …

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