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 ;)
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 …
Another day, another little WordPress tutorial for you guys. This time, I’m posting a how to for those of you who have rolled back the old sleeves, and are actually digging into some PHP to make or edit your WordPress template. Now it should go without saying that if you are making modifications to your …
We often post tutorials for clients, this is one of them – showing simply how to add a category in WordPress and then how to populate it with posts (otherwise known as articles). First, you’ll need to login to the dashboard or backend of WordPress. Then, go to Posts > Categories usually at: YOUR-SITE.com/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category Enter …
Ever had a situation where you’ve got Gravity Forms setup and you want to export entries in CSV format – but you don’t want certain fields… well ever, yet they show up in the export list of options?
I’m talking things like “Payment Amount” or “Payment Date” or other things like “Transaction ID” or even “IP” or “Source URL” or similar. Perhaps you just don’t need these at all, and you want to be able to “just export” by hitting “select all”?
In these circumstances, code comes to the rescue!
If you have recently installed WordPress, or you have just started tinkering with some image or other (such as the header image in the default WordPress theme) on a new installation, you might have run into the following problem: Image could not be processed. Please go back and try again. When the above comes through, …
Whenever there’s a new version of WordPress out (which should always be installed for security reasons – (WordPress 3.4.2 is out today!)) or a new version of your WordPress website’s theme or plugins is released, you’ll often want to update from within WordPress without having to download, FTP, upload and install each new version. Luckily …
Looking to squeeze a little more speed out of your WordPress installation? Trying to drive an AWS micro instance beyond the realms of sensibility out of a spirit of good old-fashioned thriftiness? Whatever you’re looking to achieve with WordPress, if you want to speed things up and you have root access to your server, one …
If you’re recently installed WordPress onto a new server (we do this a lot on Amazon EC2 instances of varying sizes) and you notice that your image uploads aren’t auto-thumbnailing (when WordPress “crunches” your images into “thumbnail” “medium” and “large” sizes for use throughout your website) then chances are your server doesn’t have the GD …
Scaling WordPress websites to stupidly big levels is something that makes us very, very happy. Over the past 10 years, I’ve overseen some fairly significant web applications, powered by WordPress, which pushed the envelope in terms of what the CMS can do. One instance saw us taking 5,000+ XML (NewsML + other types) files pushed …
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