Just a short one, today, to announce with much fanfare that this here website is running on PHP 8.0, which was released a short while ago. A pain free upgrade. Your mileage will vary – lots of breaking changes happened in PHP 8.0, but over here, I keep things nice and light.
Author: Robin Scott
I'm Robin Scott, a WordPress and WooCommerce expert who, along with three other people, runs a business called Silicon Dales Ltd remotely, from a base in the North West of the UK (kind of near Manchester!). I enjoy using my talents for programming to track and interpret sporting, political or retail data - and therefore you'll see me posting some content in these spaces in this, my personal website. If you're interested to talk about leveraging this for your business (in sport, entertainment, retail, etc) please contact me.
Tuesday Tunes: Graeme Park @ 90s Fest
More music, this time some melodic house from the 1990s which was mixed by Graeme Park, at 90s Fest in Magna Sheffield a couple of years ago. Graeme Park was an early pioneer of house music, who played at the Hacienda in Manchester, and is now in his fourth decade of DJing.
Ryan’s Toy Reviews Videos with no Ad Interruptions
A little bit of lockdown assistance to those who have small children around. Ryan’s Toy Reviews are popular videos, and I have noticed that if I embed videos, they don’t get those “Skip” video ads (that kids cannot skip!) popping up… therefore, for the purposes of anyone who would like, a playlist of Ryan’s Toy… Continue reading Ryan’s Toy Reviews Videos with no Ad Interruptions
Monday Music: Daft Punk; One More Time / Aerodynamic
Daft Punk today announced that they are hanging up their hats, after 28 years of making great, world changing music. So… one more time. Don’t stop the dance, yeah. Actually… just slap the whole thing on playlist and enjoy:
UEFA Champions League Highlights 16 Feb 2021 – Round of 16
The Round of 16 for UEFA Champions League 2021 took place on Tuesday 16 February 2021, with some of the biggest names in European football facing off. Below are highlights from both first leg matches, Barca Vs PSG and RB Leipzig Vs Liverpool FC, in one fast loading, ad-free, page. Highlights are courtesy of UK’s… Continue reading UEFA Champions League Highlights 16 Feb 2021 – Round of 16
WordPress is now 40% of the web
… and WooCommerce, if it were a stand-alone CMS (and not a part of WordPress) would be the second fastest growing CMS in the world, each month, for the past three months. WordPress – the Open Source flagship Content Management System continues to flourish. It doesn’t seem a moment ago that WP accounted for 30%… Continue reading WordPress is now 40% of the web
How to add Structured Data in WordPress
My SEO colleagues shorthand “Structured Data” to “schema” but as a developer, the word schema has a meaning… they mean: Schema.org structured data. That’s the subject of this blog post: How to add Schema.org structured data to your WordPress website – with or without WooCommerce – in order to get some Rich Snippets happening in… Continue reading How to add Structured Data in WordPress
Monday Music: Sub Focus x Wilkinson @ Corfe Castle, Dorset
I haven’t posted any music for a long long time, so here is about an hours worth of uplifting and extremely well mixed D&B from masters-of-the-art SUB FOCUS and WILKINSON. This impressive set had an outstanding backdrop as it was filmed in 2020 – the never-ending year – with no crowds and just smoke and… Continue reading Monday Music: Sub Focus x Wilkinson @ Corfe Castle, Dorset
Mitigating High TTFB With Cloudflare
Since I made a post a number of years ago, half-jokingly referring to this, my personal blog, as the fastest website in the world, I’ve obviously invited an amount of scrutiny onto the performance of my own pages. I use this site to test bleeding edge things that clients – frankly – wouldn’t want to… Continue reading Mitigating High TTFB With Cloudflare
Dark Mode Initiated
This website is now dark mode by default. Not because of any particular reason, other than because I wanted to put a change in place… If you are looking at this in dark mode, leave a comment below, or ping me on Slack and say something fun! I’ve also been doing some performance enhancements… to… Continue reading Dark Mode Initiated