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Google Workspace – Help, My Signature Input has no Image Uploads!
Continue reading: Google Workspace – Help, My Signature Input has no Image Uploads!Here we have an uncommon Gmail or Google Workspace issue, which will affect users rarely, but when it does, will be most perplexing to the afflicted. Luckily, in this Google… -
PHP 7.0 Reaches End of Life on 3 December 2018 😱
Continue reading: PHP 7.0 Reaches End of Life on 3 December 2018 😱If you, like us, were thinking Christmas comes round faster and faster each year, then you’ll no doubt think it was only yesterday that the awesome improvements PHP 7.0 brought…
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Facebook Page Cover Image Size & Dimensions
Continue reading: Facebook Page Cover Image Size & DimensionsBecause we’re regularly changing Facebook pages for ourselves and our clients, we regularly need to check the dimensions of various buttons and images to be used within Facebook. While the… -
Google Search Ranking Increase – for Logged in Google Accounts
Continue reading: Google Search Ranking Increase – for Logged in Google AccountsWe’ve noticed an increase in the search engine rankings for several of the websites we manage, including this website, over the past couple of weeks. While we always expect our… -
How to Update Linux on Amazon EC2 with Yum
Continue reading: How to Update Linux on Amazon EC2 with YumIt’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… -
How to Do a Screenshot
Continue reading: How to Do a ScreenshotSometimes, people ask us how we’ve done things on the Silicon Dales website itself, as they’d like to take a technique and put it into their own website. Today, I’m… -
Twitter: “The email confirmation link you followed is invalid. Click “Resend confirmation” from Settings for a new one.”
Continue reading: Twitter: “The email confirmation link you followed is invalid. Click “Resend confirmation” from Settings for a new one.”This is a Twitter error message that we have sometimes received when signing up a new Twitter account (usually for a client). The email confirmation link you followed is invalid…. -
How to Get Auto-Update Working on WordPress – Update WP Version & Plugins Without FTP
Continue reading: How to Get Auto-Update Working on WordPress – Update WP Version & Plugins Without FTPWhenever there’s a new version of WordPress out (which should always be installed for security reasons – (WordPress 3.4.2 is out today!)) or a new version of your WordPress website’s… -
How to Exclude Photos from a WordPress Gallery
Continue reading: How to Exclude Photos from a WordPress GalleryWe 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… -
How to Find & Replace in MySQL
Continue reading: How to Find & Replace in MySQLSometimes, we need to find and replace certain strings or pieces of data in MySQL on the fly, for example if we’ve changed a Top Level domain (TLD) and want… -
How Do You Pronounce “MySQL”?
Continue reading: How Do You Pronounce “MySQL”?We sometimes talk on the telephone with various technology companies, and their representatives, and there’s still confusion over the pronunciation of MySQL. After 12 years since this blog post was… -
WordPress Extensions
Continue reading: WordPress ExtensionsWe 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… -
The Correct Way to Copy/Paste From Microsoft Word / OpenOffice Writer to WordPress
Continue reading: The Correct Way to Copy/Paste From Microsoft Word / OpenOffice Writer to WordPressAs we stated before, copy pasting from Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer directly into WordPress’s Visual Editor is not a good idea, as this will import a lot of styles… -
How To Remove Microsoft Word Formatting From a WordPress Post
Continue reading: How To Remove Microsoft Word Formatting From a WordPress PostIt is not a good idea to copy directly from Word Processing software, such as Microsoft Word, into WordPress’s visual editor directly, as word processors add lots of styling information…
