AMP for WordPress 1.2.0 Update 19th June 2019

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AMP for WordPress 1.2.0 was released on 19th June 2019. You can see the notice here or the changelog here. Check out the Silicon Dales Guide to Updating WordPress before hitting update. What’s new? AMP Stories is the big news this time around – visual narratives and full screen experiences including animations and interactive tappable …

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WooCommerce 3.6.4 Update 27th May 2019

WooCommerce 3.6.4 was released on 27th May 2019. You can see the changelog here. Check out the Silicon Dales Guide to Updating WooCommerce before hitting update. If you’d like a specialist to run the update for you, book Silicon Dales today. We will: Setup a staging environment Run the updates and troubleshoot any issues or …

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WooCommerce 3.6.2 Update 24th April 2019

WooCommerce 3.6.2 was released on 24th April 2019. You can see the changelog here. Check out the Silicon Dales Guide to Updating WooCommerce before hitting update. If you’d like a specialist to run the update for you, book Silicon Dales today. We will: Setup a staging environment Run the updates and troubleshoot any issues or …

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WooCommerce 3.6 Released

WooCommerce 3.6 was released on 17th April 2019. You can see the changelog here. There’s also an additional release, put out one day later to mitigate issues in some hosting environments – so if you haven’t updated already, consider skipping straight to 3.6.1 – changelog and notes here. Check out the Silicon Dales Guide to …

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WordPress 5.1 Update – “Betty”

There’s a new WordPress update just been released on 21st February 2019. Called “Betty”, the WordPress 5.1 release builds upon the new editor experience with some enhancements to the block editor, a few log issues and most noticeably for most of our clients, there will be prompts for sites running outdated PHP versions. View the …

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Upgrading WordPress – Silicon Dales Featured in Codeable Blog

The latest read from our very own Robin Scott has been featured on the Codeable platform, where 250+ expert WordPress developers work with clients worldwide. Take a look now to find out all about the importance of upgrading WordPress and the different ways this can be achieved: Read “Upgrading WordPress” on the Codeable Blog

WordPress Plugins Auto Update Doesn’t Work – What to Do?

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 …

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WordPress 4.7.1 “Vaughan” Security Release & WooCommerce 2.6.12 Fix Release

New versions of WordPress and WooCommerce were shipped last week with many corresponding updates to plugins and integrations. WordPress 4.7.1. was a quick follow up to December’s release of “Vaughan”. As this latest WordPress update is a security fix, WordPress websites should be updated straight away if they haven’t already been auto-updated (some admins disable …

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How to Update Linux on Amazon EC2 with Yum

It’s really quite straightforward to update your Amazon EC2 instance to the latest versions: Login with your secure key via your terminal window; then Type “Sudo -i” and hit enter Type “yum update” and hit enter Hit “Y” to agree to the updates Wait for the software to carry out the update. That’s it! The …

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