The thoroughly excellent WooCommerce extension WooCommerce Bookings may be further extended with the addition of WooCommerce Accommodation Bookings to swap over days for nights, and to add a checkin and … Read More
Minimum Requirements for WooCommerce
Below are the minimum requirements for WooCommerce and (by extension) WordPress. Some are taken from WooCommerce, some from WordPress, and also, some, we are adding as recommendations. It should be … Read More
How to Handle Emails for an Absent Employee
Employees may be away for a whole host of reasons from holiday (vacations) to sickness or just planned leaves-of-absence. In order to effectively manage their inbox, for any period of time, … Read More
How to Set Out-of-Office Replies in G Suite
At this time of year, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, many companies are beginning to plan holiday breaks and cover. There are many tools available within Google’s G Suite … Read More
Ensuring Business Security Despite Laptop Ban and Border Password Requests
How to ensure your business information is secure while employees and contractors travel. Whether travelling to conferences, or checking-in on work whilst holidaying, travel restrictions imposed during 2017 in the … Read More
How to Migrate to CloudWays
Silicon Dales have been very impressed with the Magento Web Hosting offering over at CloudWays. The service includes 24/7 support and free migrations, as well as being reasonably priced for … Read More
How to Migrate to WP Engine
Silicon Dales have been very impressed with the WordPress Web Hosting offering over at WP Engine. From properly formatted caching through to one-click staging environments and allowing Cron jobs, WP … Read More
How to get a WP Engine account for under $20 a month
We’ve spent a lot of time over the years evaluating hosting for WordPress. We’ve seen the good, the bad and the downright ugly (GoDaddy, I’m looking a little bit at … Read More
Example CodeIgniter .htaccess for mod_rewrite
If you are like Silicon Dales, a few years back, you would have used CodeIgniter (CI) probably quite a lot 5-6 years ago, but perhaps not so much “these days” … Read More
Gsuite / Gmail attachments cannot contain .js files any more
Recent security updates to Google’s mail services mean that Gmail and Gsuite accounts are no longer allowed to attach files with the .js extension (this includes zip files which contain … Read More