Resolving err_too_many_redirects

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Have you seen the message err_too_many_redirects on a page or pages of your website? Would you like to resolve this? Sure you would! Read on… What err_too_many_redirects Means It doesn’t take a genius to realise what this error means, but its probably worth breaking it down. Error. Too many redirects. There is no such thing …

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Halloween Offer from Silicon Dales: 20% off Security Certificate Installation (HTTPS)

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Keep your WordPress website visitors happy and help your search rankings too, by making sure your site security certificate is installed and working.

Installation can be tricky, so if you’re seeing mixed content warnings, or don’t know where to start, book Silicon Dales today for SSL Certificate Installation, and get 20% off as part of our Halloween offer.

Simply enter the code “HALLOWEEN20” at checkout and let us know your preferred time to be contacted. Once booked, an expert developer will then be in touch to arrange the necessary credentials to begin setup.

Halloween offer from Silicon Dales: 20% off SSL installation "don't let your site spook your visitors this Halloween"

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Relaunch: Constable Burton Hall Caravan Park

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Last week, saw the relaunch of a long-standing client site, as Constable Burton Estate had us rebuild their Constable Burton Hall Caravan Park website in a mobile friendly, responsive, WordPress skin. The website includes a WooCommerce accommodation booking system, which allows guests to register online for stays at the caravan Park. This booking system is …

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Fix Broken YouTube Auto Embed with WordPress

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2018 UPDATE – please note that the issue below is resolved in the latest versions of WordPress. Update to the latest version of WP and you should find video embeds work exactly as expected now. You can chalk this off your list 🙂  On WordPress blogs, there has for a number of versions been a …

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How to Customize Your PayPal Checkout with Your Logo

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If you use PayPal as a checkout, either on its own, or with other payment gateways and providers, in your online shop, or auction, chances are you’ll want to customise the look and feel of your checkout yo provide your customers with a more seamless transaction process. This tutorial will help if you use the …

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Case Study: PayPal Response to WooCommerce Fix for EconomicsHelp.org

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Tejvan Pettinger is an A-Level economics teacher at Greene’s Tutorial College, Oxford. He studied PPE at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, gaining a 2:1. Between 2001 and 2006 he worked as examiner and Team Leader for Edexcel examinations. He also contributes articles to the Economic Review. Tejvan has written a full range of GCSE, AS-Level and …

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Why Your Website Needs a Security Certificate – and How to Get One

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Introduction Users who browse the web using the Google Chrome browser will now be served with warnings whenever they view a website without a security certificate. Google has said this is because: “When you load a website over HTTP, someone else on the network can look at or modify the site before it gets to …

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Transport HTTPS traffic to HTTP with .htaccess

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The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed that we very recently updated a couple of things here at the Silicon Dales website, and one of those steps has involved switching from delivering pages via HTTPS, now that we have retired the online shop section. The precise mechanism for doing this on a LAMP setup using …

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