I had some fun this morning with the Google team at Wordcamp Europe in Berlin. Google are promoting web speed at Wordcamp Europe – specifically helping webmasters to speed up their WordPress websites.
Author archives: 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!).
Meet me in Berlin, June 20-22
I am attending WordCamp Europe 2019 from 20th – 22nd June in Berlin, Germany.
Magento 1.x to WooCommerce Migration
Looking to get a quote or estimate to migrate a Magento 1.x store over to WooCommerce in the next year or so?
Resolve WordPress “The site is experiencing technical difficulties.”
If you recently upgraded WordPress to version 5.2 you’ll maybe have seen there are a lot of new Health Check and technical goodies – particularly, there’s some disaster prevention elements in there. But, maybe you were unfortunate, and a plugin or theme update has shown you a new message, which says “The site is experiencing […]
Need help setting up WooCommerce Shipping rules?
A lot of my clients come to me looking for help with a range of WooCommerce problems, and one of the main things many don’t have so much concept of (before they get started with their stores) is shipping.
Resolving Siteground CPU Issues
In the past couple of years, as well as overseeing medium and large business WordPress development at Silicon Dales, I’ve also kept my skills sharp working on over 330+ freelance projects of varying sizes. Often I’m contracted to consult or troubleshoot difficult situations, so I see a lot of common threads running through tasks, which […]
Wireless Charger for iPhone X
This is a post for those of you who, like me, have one of these smart phones which is short on battery life, and gets a lot of use.
PageSpeed Insights Showing Slow Loading Times for your Website?
Is Google’s PageSpeed Insights showing low scores or slow loading times for your website?
“I want my website to load in under 1 second”
Do you want your website to load in under 1 second? On the front end (the public side) and the backend (the admin side)… in fact, on all pages? Of course you do.
Outsource WordPress Maintenance
Before I get into this one, I’ll first define “WordPress Maintenance” and what I consider this to mean.