WordPress Tutorials

WordPress Tutorials straight from the WP expert developers at Silicon Dales.

WordPress Tutorials

This page contains some of our WordPress Tutorials.

Whether you’re a WordPress novice, or a professional user of the open source CMS which has evolved from the world’s most popular blogging platform, when we find issues that we think the world will want a solution to, we post them here.

Feel free to request a fix or leave a comment on any of our tutorials.

Google is your friend when it comes to open source – so if you can’t find it here, have a look on Google.

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Just show me the WordPress Tutorials, already!

Scroll down! Below you will find our tutorials, which is to say those posted by Silicon Dales. They are sorted in order of “most recently updated at the top” so that you can drill down to what we’ve posted in last, first. We gotta tip the old cap to the blog structure, right ;)

The Silicon Dales Guide to Updating WordPress

WordPress is used by 30% of websites – even in a sample of the top million websites. It’s popular and it works. In order to…

This is a question we are asked by people on a regular basis: “Why is my website slow?” The answer provided here, since 2012, is…

Some problems are first world problems. Other problems are big WordPress problems. Slow WordPress Admin? Slow uncached pageloads? We deal with some big WordPress customers,…

Clients often ask for our recommendation when buying web hosting for WordPress websites. Here, developer Robin Scott gives guidance on choosing the right home for…

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…

Clients often ask for our recommendation when buying web hosting for WordPress and particularly WooCommerce websites. Here, WooExpert Robin Scott gives guidance on choosing the…

Video is a great way to present your business to customers and partners. Create an immersive experience and find news ways to introduce concepts to…

Please note a lot of these keyboard actions have been appended with new actions for the new editor in WordPress 5.0 (aka Gutenberg). We’ll be…

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…

Great looking images are really important when visitors are looking for a quick way to understand your website, brand and business. Good images help with…

If you’re new to the WordPress visual editor, you might be looking up online how to do certain functions. We’ve seen this question asked a…

You would not need to be particularly sharp-eyed, over the past couple of years, to notice that we have been both linking to, and working…

As we often recommend Cloudways as an excellent mechanism through which to access cloud instances from providers like AWS, Vultr, Digital Ocean, Linode and Google…

Are you looking to setup DNS records for Namecheap domains you may add in the future, so that your domain just resolves, and doesn’t go…

Namecheap allows you to host your own nameservers, and therefore point your domains at your VPS or dedicated server’s IP address more quickly in future,…

It is quite simple to add a PDF (or other file for download) into a WordPress post or page, however, sometimes we forget exactly how…

Received a WooCommerce help SOS through our contact form, so here is the simple answer to a question we’ve been asked more than once! Declaring…

Different sales tags for Christmas, Winter, Summer, Spring, Halloween, Black Friday

Whether you’re an ice-cream seller or a Christmas decorations maker, every business has its busy times throughout the year. More often than not, these peak…

A long while back, I wrote a short piece about how to make Linux servers set their local time to Europe -> London, which you…

Gravity Forms is a very easily extended plugin for contact forms, lead capture forms and a lot of other things you can use forms for.…

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…

Free in the GPL means freedom, not free of charge, but also, in the context of this article, it also means free as in it…

We’re often asked by clients to create a Coming Soon page to handle website visitors while a website is either under construction or under maintenance.…

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…

Have you seen the message err_too_many_redirects on a page or pages of your website? Would you like to resolve this? Sure you would! Read on……

A while ago, we started using Gists for code snippets in this site, and this has been a great way to share code and give…

This question was asked of us recently, after a tutorial we posted, so I’m putting this out there in case anyone else wants to know…

A lot of businesses are now using video as a means of communicating with clients and customers. We, at Silicon Dales, fully advocate this. It…

Enfold is a popular theme option for our smaller “DIY” clients. The results are immensely professional and there are some really exciting features such as…

Ever wanted to link to a specific time-point in a YouTube video? Well, you can, just by following the steps below, and link directly to…

WordPress Tutorials