How to Create a WordPress Child Theme
Child themes are the professional way to modify WordPress themes. Matt Mullenweg who founded WordPress said that “child themes are the only way you should…
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Protect Drupal Content with Node Access Password
Node Access Password is a module that allows you to password-protect your Drupal content. This module will automatically generate a random password for each node…
Custom Search Module for Drupal
The Drupal core provides a Search module that is great for many sites. However, it doesn’t provide some of the more sophisticated features that some…
9 Essential WordPress Plugins
WordPress has nearly 20,000 plugins, which is both a blessing and a curse for beginners. On the one hand, it’s wonderful that so many developers…
How to Set Up Drupal Multi-sites
Multi-sites is a Drupal feature that makes managing many websites easier. The idea with multi-sites is that you can use a single codebase for more…
Context: Placing Drupal Blocks and Themes on Different Pages
The Drupal project page for Context describes it in this way: “Context allows you to manage contextual conditions and reactions for different portions of your…
Update Your Drupal 6 Core Files
You should always update to the latest version of Drupal to take advantage of updates and to also guard your site’s security. It’s not a…
Change the Site URL and Home URL on a WordPress Site
If you move your WordPress site, you may have trouble getting your pages to show correctly. Often this problem is caused by two WordPress settings:…
Using the Views Slideshow Module in Drupal 7
Slideshows are one of the most popular things that people want on their website and the Views Slideshow Module is the most popular way to…
What is WordPress?
WordPress started out as a simple way to share your thoughts on the web through, what was then, a new concept, blogging. People wanted to…
How to Find the Location of Your php.ini File
A critical file you often need to manage is the php.ini file. It controls many import aspects of what you can and can not do…
Using Firebug to Find and Replace Logos
UPDATE: Firebug is not supported anymore. Please try Dev Tools in Firefox, or Developer Tools in Chrome instead. As templates and themes become more complicated,…
How to Change Language Strings in Drupal 7
Drupal has language files that hold all of the messages and labels you see while using your site. You can change this text if you…
What is Open Source?
This short article will give you a insight into how something “free” evolved in a capitalistic society. The two most popular operating systems for computers…
How to Change Language Strings in WordPress
WordPress has language files that hold all of the messages and labels you see while using your site. You can change this text if you…
How to Enable or Clear Cache for Drupal 7 sites
Caching increases the apparent speed of the website by storing copies of the pages on the server on the browser and keeping the copies in…
How to Use the Gantry Framework for WordPress
Frameworks offer a new level of control over website development. Gantry is one of several frameworks available that extend your ability to layout and modify…
Widget Context Allows Different Widgets on Different Pages
WordPress is making great strides as a CMS, but it does lack one feature found in most CMSs: the ability to control over which posts…
10 Responsive WordPress Themes
The phrase “Responsive Web Design” isn’t even two years old, but it’s hard to read web design articles these days without hearing it mentioned. What…
An Introduction to Responsive Themes in Drupal
It’s hard to miss the word “Responsive” when looking at Drupal themes these days. What does it mean? “Responsive” design means that your theme is…