Custom Permalinks for WordPress
Custom Permalinks is a useful plugin when you need to assign a custom path to individual posts, pages, tags or categories. This is very helpful…
Author: Valentin Garcia
Valentin discovered Joomla in 2010, and since then he has considered it as the best CMS. Valentin has been coding extensions and templates for Joomla for many years and truly enjoys helping people build their own websites with Open Source tools.
He lives in San Julián, Jalisco, México.
Theme CMSs Are the Most Popular Way to Build a WordPress Website
WordPress themes used to have specific focuses. You could find themes for restaurants, schools, corporate sites or for even more narrow niches. However, in recent…
Social Buttons in WordPress with AddThis Sharing Buttons
Adding social sharing buttons to your WordPress site is very easy with the AddThis Sharing Buttons plugin. It takes only a minute to install and…
Easily Add Google Fonts to WordPress
Google Fonts is a wonderful tool to help you customize your site. You can choose from about 700 different fonts to improve the design of…
4 Free Online Tools for Web Designers
There’s a trend in software towards expensive online subscriptions, but there are still a lot of great free services out there. Every day, I relay…
5 Tips to Get Great Technical Support
Every week we answer 100’s of support forum topics from developers and designers. Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that some users are excellent…
Responsive Design with CSS Viewport Units
Responsive design makes it possible to adapt a website to any screen. In responsive design, the size of a site’s elements change based on the…
Introducing Polymer Web Elements by Google
Polymer is a library created by Google that makes it easier to create elements. Elements are reusable sections of code that makes it much easier…
How to Use Honeypots to Fight Spam
We recently released an awesome plugin named OSpam-a-not. This extension protects your forms from a flood of spam. At the moment it’s only available for…
Padding vs Margin for Web Design Spacing
Spacing is important for web design. Spacing is about giving every piece of content its own space on the screen. We use margin and padding…
Show the WordPress Login Inside Your Theme
This week, one OSTraining member asked us whether it was possible to improve the login experience in WordPress. The member wondered if they could make…
1 Great Thing in 2014: Joomla World Conference
Many things happened in 2014. The redesign of OSTraining, the rebirth of Alledia and my favorite event of the year hosted in my country: the…
Breeze – a New, Free WordPress Theme for You
Today we’re releasing Breeze, a WordPress theme that’s good-looking and really easy to use. Breeze got its name because it’s so speedy and lightweight that installing…
More WordPress Widget Control with the Custom Sidebars Plugin
One of our OSTraining members asked us how they could show different widgets on different WordPress pages. This isn’t a feature that’s available by default…
The Transition Property in CSS3 With Examples
CSS3 makes it possible to easily create animations for hover events. In a previous post, we explained how the hover.css library works and gave a…
Easy CSS3 Animation with Hover.css
CSS3 allows you to add animation to elements such as links. In a previous post about the OSTraining redesign, we showed how CSS3 enabled us…
Improve WordPress Speed With Better WordPress Minify
Better WordPress Minify is a plugin that reduces the loading time of your website by compressing the Javascript and CSS code. Much of these files…
Introducing the New OSTraining Design
Last week we launched a redesign of the OSTraining site. The original OSTraining site design was launched all the way back in 2008. We made…
Flexbox in CSS to Make Columns
Creating columns can be a tricky task in webdesign. For many year webdesigners used tables to show content in columns. More recently, designers have been…
Fullscreen Websites with jQuery.fullscreen
Many years ago, when flash websites were popular and no-one cared about SEO, websites often went fullscreen. A fullscreen website would hide all the browser…