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 ;)
As we stated before, copy pasting from Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer directly into WordPress’s Visual Editor is not a good idea, as this will import a lot of styles and fonts – and a lot of unnecessary code – from the word processing software you use into WordPress, leading often to undesirable results, like …
It is not a good idea to copy directly from Word Processing software, such as Microsoft Word, into WordPress’s visual editor directly, as word processors add lots of styling information which gets copied across, and you may well find that your website’s styles and fonts are not respected in your document! When you do copy …
We’ve touched on WordPress comment spam several times over the past few years, and we offer managed WordPress clients the opportunity to use our developer licenced version of Akismet to get rid of comment spam, but if you’re self hosted, the below tutorial will help you to get Akismet installed, setup and running, and get …
A quick WordPress helper tutorial for you, as we’ve been asked this in a couple of different ways over email of late, by people who had experienced PHP errors in their WP installations. PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function request_filesystem_credentials() in [somelocation]/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-upgrader-skin.php on line 93 How to resolve this error This issue is most …
The thoroughly excellent WooCommerce extension WooCommerce Bookings may be further extended with the addition of WooCommerce Accommodation Bookings to swap over days for nights, and to add a checkin and checkout time (i.e. to make the extension useful for hotels, bed and breakfasts and other “overnight” accommodation provider style bookings. We have a client using …
In this tutorial, I will explain, very quickly, how to change the colour of some text, or a heading, in a post or page in WordPress, using the inherent Rich Text Editor (RTE). Step One – Click the “More Options” (show/hide kitchen sink) Button First up, the option you need is in the more, or …
There are lots of times when you want to check the age of your visitors before allowing them access to your WordPress website, for example if you sell or promote alcohol or gambling related content. Whatever the reason, if you’d like to lock out children or people under a certain age from accessing your WP …
Sometimes, for the purposes of style, we want to justify text in web pages. Justification, in a typographical sense, means that text stretches to line up precisely on the right and left margins, and appears straight down the edges (unlike this page, which is aligned left, and therefore is straight down the left edge, but …
We often install WordPress as a CMS for businesses at Silicon Dales, because we know how important it is for companies and small firms to communicate with their customers and clients. This does, however, introduce the business web manager to a new thing: moderating comments; and comment moderation’s ugly sister – Comment Spam! A lot …
