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WordPress Hosting – Best hosts for your website
Continue reading: WordPress Hosting – Best hosts for your websiteClients often ask for our recommendation when buying web hosting for WordPress websites. Here, developer Robin Scott gives guidance on choosing the right home for your WP site. The order… -
How to fill your WordPress website with great looking videos
Continue reading: How to fill your WordPress website with great looking videosVideo is a great way to present your business to customers and partners. Create an immersive experience and find news ways to introduce concepts to your audience. High quality video…
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WordPress Tip: Adding a PDF Link into a WordPress Post
Continue reading: WordPress Tip: Adding a PDF Link into a WordPress PostIt is quite simple to add a PDF (or other file for download) into a WordPress post or page, however, sometimes we forget exactly how to do it in the… -
WordPress Plugins Auto Update Doesn’t Work – What to Do?
Continue reading: 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… -
How to Make WordPress Auto-Thumbnails Work
Continue reading: How to Make WordPress Auto-Thumbnails WorkIf you’re recently installed WordPress onto a new server (we do this a lot on Amazon EC2 instances of varying sizes) and you notice that your image uploads aren’t auto-thumbnailing… -
How to Change the Colour of Text or a Heading in a WordPress Post or Page
Continue reading: How to Change the Colour of Text or a Heading in a WordPress Post or PageIn this tutorial, I will explain, very quickly, how to change the colour of some text, or a heading, in a post or page in WordPress, using the inherent Rich… -
Fix Broken YouTube Auto Embed with WordPress
Continue reading: Fix Broken YouTube Auto Embed with WordPress2018 UPDATE – please note that the issue below is resolved in the latest versions of WordPress. Update to the latest version of WP and you should find video embeds… -
WordPress – Using MySQL to Update Specific Custom Fields
Continue reading: WordPress – Using MySQL to Update Specific Custom FieldsSome time ago, we told you how to Find & Replace Data using MySQL – today I am going to explain how to use this query to update specific custom… -
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… -
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… -
What to Do With Comment Spam
Continue reading: What to Do With Comment SpamWe often install WordPress as a CMS for businesses at Silicon Dales, because we know how important it is for companies and small firms to communicate with their customers and…
