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 ;)
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 …
Some time ago, we told you how to Find & Replace Data using MySQL – today I am going to explain how to use this query to update specific custom fields in WordPress databases, in bulk, on-the-fly, without having to login, open, and edit every single WordPress post you’ve got! Remember, before doing anything to …
Silicon Dales have been very impressed with the WordPress Web Hosting offering over at WP Engine. From properly formatted caching through to one-click staging environments and allowing Cron jobs, WP Engine is one of the best WordPress-specific hosting providers we’ve seen to date, as well as being reasonably priced for most entry-level clients. Silicon Dales …
We’ve spent a lot of time over the years evaluating hosting for WordPress. We’ve seen the good, the bad and the downright ugly (GoDaddy, I’m looking a little bit at you, okay!?) and, as we’re honing our WordPress offering to offer maintenance and support for the very best WordPress installs out there, we’re always looking …
For business, time is money, so any time saved can equal money in the bank. We know this, at Silicon Dales, so we build websites that work, quickly. We also know that the computer should be doing a lot of the hard work, even when you are trying to communicate your messages to your clients, …
Is it a Black Friday Deal? Or a Cyber Monday Deal? It’s a big deal, we know that! WP Engine is offering 35% off hosting plans from Wednesday 22nd November 2017 until Thursday 30th November 2017. That’s a whole week to make the most of this super-generous discount. WP Engine is one of Silicon Dales’ …
Sometimes you want to change some (seemingly) simple setting in your WordPress & WooCommerce website and you feel sure there should be “some setting” somewhere to fix it. For those times, we do the heavy lifting for our management clients, but for those of you learning how to self-host WooCommerce, we post tutorials. This is …
If you use WordPress and WooCommerce to sell products on your website, you may well want to remove the default sorting and/or “Showing All X Results” text from your shop and category pages – particularly if you don’t have more than a handful of products! The code snippets below will allow you to do just …
Step-by-step guide to troubleshooting the WordPress page permissions error message. If you’re trying to access the WordPress admin on a website you administrate, and you’ve just logged in with the correct username and password, and seen a grey box with the words: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” Then you’ll likely …
