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 ;)

Local Time in London – Display in a WordPress website

A long while back, I wrote a short piece about how to make Linux servers set their local time to Europe -> London, which you can find here. Today, I’m going to show you how to post a quick snippet into your WordPress to allow you to display what the local time is anywhere in …

What Theme? Our Favourite Free WordPress Themes

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 costs you nothing. A lot of people say “free as in beer” – this may or may not mean anything to you, but the WordPress themes in this post are …

How to set up a Coming Soon page for WordPress

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.

Why do you need a Coming Soon page?

A Coming Soon page keeps trust high with any visitors who land on your website while it’s unavailable. It helps to service pre-existing links, reassuring people – and search engines – that yes, they’re in the right place, but no, the website isn’t available right now.

Coming soon pages are a powerful way to build hype before a site or project launch, and also conveniently hide work in progress until you’re ready to go live.

How to fill your WordPress website with great looking images

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 trust, expectations and, ultimately, sales. Finding images Stock images A quick way to give viewers what they’re looking for is to use professional images from a stock image services such …

Cyber Monday Deal – Free WordPress Security Consultation @ Codeable

There’s a great Cyber Monday deal for all you WordPress webmasters out there! Our friends at Codeable are offering a Free WordPress Security Consultation to any WordPress webmaster on Cyber Monday, whether you have a Codeable account already or not! This is a huge offer, as Codeable devs (which we are proud to say we …

Getting Started with the Enfold Advanced Layout Editor – Video Tutorial

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 the masonry gallery. For those looking to get started with Enfold, the developers behind this theme, Kriesi, provide really top class support and heaps of information in the forms of walk-throughs and demonstrations.

WP Engine Coupon Code Discount: Get 10% off

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 you, okay!?) and, as we’re honing our WordPress offering to offer maintenance and support for the very best WordPress installs out there, we’re always looking …

How to Fix WordPress White Screen of Death (WSOD)

Okay, so you got a problem? Your WordPress website just. Went. White!! In this WordPress tutorial, I will describe some of the processes you can go through to resolve your WordPress White Screen of Death (WSOD) quickly and efficiently, so that you can get your website back up and running; you can worry about the …

Getting Started with Cloudways Guide

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 Cloud Platform, without taking on the technical debt of managing your own stack, particularly for WordPress and WooCommerce clients, we often find we are repeating some instructions. As a result, …

Location of functions.php in WordPress

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 this – and also so that I can link this up in future WordPress tutorials too. Where is functions.php in WordPress? When developers talk about “adding this code to your …