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 ;)
Silicon Dales have partnered with Automattic in relation to WordPress.com, Jetpack and WooCommerce. This means we are affiliates for the products and services provided – please note, for full disclosure, this does mean we are paid commissions for referring sales to Jetpack, WordPress.com and WooCommerce. Jetpack (and also WordPress.com) have provided an awesome special offer …
Fresh and relevant writing on your website is an essential way to reach customers, business partners and search engines. But where do you start? The guide below will help you to put together a content strategy and fill your WordPress website with the words you need. Devise a strategy A good plan will help you …
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, and often their sites can become slow. There’s sometimes a myth floating around that “WordPress doesn’t scale” or, more specifically, that “WooCommerce doesn’t scale” but there’s a reason I call …
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 your audience. High quality video is now available more easily than ever using some of the services and tools below: Finding Video Stock Footage A quick way to give viewers …
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 adding a Gutenberg tutorial later. Over the years, we published a lot of WordPress (and other) Tutorials, and often its the simplest of them which are the most used. We …
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 your WP setup which tinkers with the email settings on your WordPress: wp_mail has been declared by another process or plugin, so you won’t be …
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 through that “free parking at Namecheap” phase, or the additional Nginx 500 response that sometimes happens? The instructions below will get you there. Preconfigure Namecheap DNS to Auto Add DNS …
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, by doing the following: Note you only need to do this once, for the domain with which you will host the nameservers. Your future domains (assuming they reside on the …
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 to do it in the way that we want (i.e. with the correct link text and linking to the right place!). How to Add PDF into WP The following steps …
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 WooCommerce theme support is really important after WooCommerce 3.3.0 – if your theme does not contain this in functions.php, then there’s a good chance any woocommerce templates you add to …
