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 ;)
In the next few days, I am going to post a few code snippets which will help those looking to get started with some simple snippets to get into customising the WordPress Customizer, because there aren’t many specific examples out there on the web about how to achieve certain tasks with what is an often …
The instructions below will allow you to copy a complete WordPress website, and all files, from one domain to another, within Plesk version 12.5 or higher. We are assuming that the old domain is called olddomain.com and the new domain is called newdomain.com. First you purchase and add your new domain to Plesk as you …
Got a plugin that does something really nifty, and turns out really good results in your WordPress posts and pages? Want to use that shortcode in your theme files, somewhere, outside the loop, and not sure how to do that? This WordPress tutorial will tell you how to get this done. Thankfully, as with so …
Sometimes in WordPress or WooCommerce website, you find that (for example) some custom post type or other content has been removed, but the taxonomy terms are still registering the “old” content, and therefore the term numbers are all wrong. Well, heck, what to do?! In this situation, there are a few steps you can take …
Today’s tutorial contains a couple of quick fixes which will block out everyone you don’t want from even trying to login to your site. Please note, this will physically block all visitors who don’t come from your list of trusted IP addresses from: Attempting to login (by accessing wp-login.php); and Accessing the wp-admin directory at …
Cloudways is our top recommended host for WooCommerce. In terms of value-for-money, it doesn’t get better than this. With a full range of hosting options to choose from, there are even great datacentre selections available for regions such as Australia, which historically have been a little underserved. If you’re looking for a way to host …
We’ve had a lot of enquiries over the years about turning WordPress into a variety of things. One of the major things people would like WordPress to do is to grapple with affiliate (well, merchant, to be precise) product feeds, and spit out product based pages. Over the years, I’ve installed a few systems to …
We often use WordPress’s in-built “Gallery” function to display all of the photographs we’ve added to a WordPress post or page. This is done by adding the Gallery shortcode, into a WordPress post or page (after, of course, having added some pictures to that post!): [gallery] Sometimes, though, you don’t want to include all your …
We often install the Open source (free, and developed by a community of programmers, rather than one, paid, team) Content Management System (CMS), WordPress. WordPress was originally a blogging platform developed by Matt Mullenweg, but, in its short history, the software, which runs on (also Open source) PHP and MySQL, has developed into far more …
We receive plenty of traffic from people looking for answers to various WordPress and other open source questions, here at Silicon Dales, as we’re constantly posting tutorials and items of information which are likely to be of use to novice and professional webmasters. If you’re looking to troubleshoot issues with auto-update not working on your …
