WordPress Tutorials straight from the WP expert developers at Silicon Dales.
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.
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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 ;)
Are you using WordFence to secure your WordPress application? Have you been doing some admin action, like scanning for some file, or loading lots of pages which keeps triggering the firewall and blocking you out? Whatever it is you’d like to do, it can make a lot of sense to whitelist your IP address (or …
Kinsta is Silicon Dales’ favourite managed WordPress + WooCommerce hosts when it comes to the support, available features and admin panel. Though they’re traditionally a little more expensive than most other hosts, they nicely combine the things business owners need to know with a developer friendly approach (they allow SSH access and WP CLI, by …
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 right home for your WP site. The below will be updated in future as recommendations are updated. Best Hosts for WooCommerce Here’s a list in order of my personal preference …
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 with, a service called Codeable. I’ve been interviewed on and off tape by the service, in a series of blog posts, articles, videos, and more; and also some of the …
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 few times: how do you strikethrough text in the WordPress visual editor? 2019 Update – How to Strikethrough in Gutenberg (the new editor) The below tutorials applied to the old …
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 is a description of how to use Gravity Forms to collect the referring page URL, so you know where the person filling in the form came from, easily, without any extra effort!
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
