Open Source

Open Source (sometimes hyphenated as open-source or abbreviated to be FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) is generally software – or code – for which the source code is “open” and may be edited (albeit usually with some form of review) by, essentially, anyone.

Open Source is often compared with “closed source” where source code may not be edited by anyone other than the software owner, or someone operating under licence.

Open Source software does, though, have a licence. Two popular open source licences are the GPL and MIT licences.

WordPress Extensions

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 …

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 …

You would not need to be particularly sharp-eyed, over the past couple of years, to notice that we have been both linking to, and working with, a service called Codeable. I’ve been interviewed on and off tape by the service, in a series of blog posts, articles, videos, and more; and also some of the …

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For some of our corporate clients used to paying for licences, Open Source can present the legal department with some challenges. This guide explains some of the terminology, the real-world application for the Open Source approach and where this has been tested in court. This guide will be of interest to legal departments and web …

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Migrating an online store to Open Source can be a great way to bust out of vendor lock-in and take back control of your business functions and costs. Benefits Open Source is a great way to future-proof your eCommerce requirements. Here’s how it can offer improvements to the bottom line: Customization Take Open Source code …

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This guide looks at the impact of the GDPR with special regard to website admins, owners and developers – primarily those using the WordPress and WooCommerce platforms, as well as those using Google’s Google Workspace.

Silicon Dales are accredited WooCommerce developers, as well as Google Partners reselling Google Workspace to business clients inside and outside of the European Union. While this content is primarily expected to be of interest to those in a similar position, it is likely that this explanation may well be of interest to webmasters, developers, web and PR agencies, business owners, as well as senior executives looking to come up to speed with GDPR, in the context of what this might mean for their web operations.

There is also some discussion of the wider WordPress and Open Source community and how the challenges of GDPR might be addressed within that context.

Received a WooCommerce help SOS through our contact form, so here is the simple answer to a question we’ve been asked more than once! Declaring WooCommerce theme support is really important after WooCommerce 3.3.0 – if your theme does not contain this in functions.php, then there’s a good chance any woocommerce templates you add to …

Open Source

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