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PHP (or WordPress) City / Locations to use for North American (USA) Timezones
Continue reading: PHP (or WordPress) City / Locations to use for North American (USA) TimezonesIf you’re ever setting the PHP or WordPress timezone for a site in the USA, and you’d like to make sure you pick a city to match their timezone (and… -
WP Engine Coupon Code Discount: Get 10% off
Continue reading: WP Engine Coupon Code Discount: Get 10% offWe’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…
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Reverse Date Order of WooCommerce Reviews – Show Newest / Oldest First
Continue reading: Reverse Date Order of WooCommerce Reviews – Show Newest / Oldest FirstSometimes you want to change some (seemingly) simple setting in your WordPress & WooCommerce website and you feel sure there should be “some setting” somewhere to fix it. For those… -
New WordPress 4.0 Lets You Embed Tweets… Here’s How!
Continue reading: New WordPress 4.0 Lets You Embed Tweets… Here’s How!The latest version of WordPress shipped this week. If you’re on WP, then updating is recommended as soon as possible. WordPress 4.0! WordPress 4.0 is another fairly big overhaul, however,… -
How To: Turn WordPress into an Affiliate Store
Continue reading: How To: Turn WordPress into an Affiliate StoreWe’ve had a lot of enquiries over the years about turning WordPress into a variety of things. One of the major things people would like WordPress to do is to… -
CSS Tutorial: Justifying Text
Continue reading: CSS Tutorial: Justifying TextSometimes, for the purposes of style, we want to justify text in web pages. Justification, in a typographical sense, means that text stretches to line up precisely on the right… -
How to Use Shortcodes in your WordPress Theme Files
Continue reading: How to Use Shortcodes in your WordPress Theme FilesGot a plugin that does something really nifty, and turns out really good results in your WordPress posts and pages? Want to use that shortcode in your theme files, somewhere,… -
Getting Started with the Enfold Advanced Layout Editor – Video Tutorial
Continue reading: Getting Started with the Enfold Advanced Layout Editor – Video TutorialEnfold is a popular theme option for our smaller “DIY” clients. The results are immensely professional and there are some really exciting features such as the masonry gallery. For those… -
Mandrill: wp_mail has been declared by another process or plugin, so you won’t be able to use Mandrill until the problem is solved.
Continue reading: Mandrill: wp_mail has been declared by another process or plugin, so you won’t be able to use Mandrill until the problem is solved.Troubleshoot this Mandrill-related clash on your WordPress website. The following error message may be produced if the WordPress plugin Mandrill is installed and activated while there exists another plugin on… -
WooCommerce Tutorial: Remove “Showing All … Results” and “Default Sorting” from Shop / Category Pages
Continue reading: WooCommerce Tutorial: Remove “Showing All … Results” and “Default Sorting” from Shop / Category PagesIf you use WordPress and WooCommerce to sell products on your website, you may well want to remove the default sorting and/or “Showing All X Results” text from your shop… -
WordPress Problem: Image could not be processed. Please go back and try again.
Continue reading: WordPress Problem: Image could not be processed. Please go back and try again.If you have recently installed WordPress, or you have just started tinkering with some image or other (such as the header image in the default WordPress theme) on a new… -
Tuning WordPress for Faster PageSpeed: Use Httpd.conf Instead of .htaccess for Permalinks
Continue reading: Tuning WordPress for Faster PageSpeed: Use Httpd.conf Instead of .htaccess for PermalinksLooking to squeeze a little more speed out of your WordPress installation? Trying to drive an AWS micro instance beyond the realms of sensibility out of a spirit of good… -
Transport HTTPS traffic to HTTP with .htaccess
Continue reading: Transport HTTPS traffic to HTTP with .htaccessThe 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… -
How To Use Shortcodes in WordPress Widgets
Continue reading: How To Use Shortcodes in WordPress WidgetsShortcodes are great, and can be used for a variety of purposes within WordPress to cut out the hassle of adding code all over the place. Even better, shortcodes allow…













