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 ;)
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 sales periods can be predicted. This presents a great opportunity for businesses to prepare and get ahead of the competition. Here’s a quick guide to getting your website ready for …
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 another fairly big overhaul, however, so where we’re managing client updates, we’re rolling changes through carefully to watch for any little snags, like theme and plugin incompatibilities. One of the …
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 back to Open Source.
However, since implementing AMP, this has not always played nicely when viewing pages on a mobile, via AMP.
That is now fixed! Any Gist you see in this site will now show up just fine when you visit the AMP version, too. Win.
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 is a great way to reach out to clients in a way they enjoy. Not everyone has the time – or the will – to read through your company messages, …
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 a video, starting at the point you chose. Great for linking to TED Talks without the waffly intro part, or just to get to the clearest rendition of “all the …
2018 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 work exactly as expected now. You can chalk this off your list 🙂 On WordPress blogs, there has for a number of versions been a …
This tutorial describes how to quickly and easily unattach media from a WordPress post or page. Some WordPress themes use a post or page’s attached images (or other media) to trigger certain actions, like, for example, a rotating header image gallery or similar. This is a great way to quickly and easily add images to a …
It’s never too early to get ready for Cyber Monday when you’re in business. The annual technology sales event following the US Thanksgiving weekend has become an international phenomenon. Why bother? Cyber Monday is bigger than Black Friday, it’s also bigger than Boxing Day in the UK and outperforms the Click Frenzy sales event in …
The mobile web is here, and it doesn’t look like it is going anywhere fast, now, does it?! So you probably want to make your company website look good on an Apple iPhone, iPad, or Google Android Handset? Well, the good news for people who use WordPress to manage their web content is that there …
Shortcodes are great, and can be used for a variety of purposes within WordPress to cut out the hassle of adding code all over the place. Even better, shortcodes allow you to edit things centrally and have them updated wherever they appear across your blog. But, often, we find, our clients would like a feature …
