How to Rewrite the Output of Views Fields in Drupal
One of our customers asked how to tweak the fields of a table output by Views to give the table a cleaner look. They were…
Author: Jorge Montoya
Jorge lived in Ecuador and Germany. Now he is back to his homeland Colombia. He spends his time translating from English and German to Spanish. He enjoys playing with Drupal and other Open Source Content Management Systems and technologies.
How to Create a Voting System in Drupal 8
One of OSTraining’s customers asked how to implement content voting on their site. In Drupal 7, the popular choice was the Fivestar module, but that’s…
How to Create CSS and Javascript Animations in Drupal 8
There are multiple JavaScript and CSS libraries on the internet. They allow you to animate parts of your site and make them look more attractive.…
How to Create a Contact Form in Drupal 8
One of OSTraining’s members asked how to create a following web form with the Webform module: The site has four regions to be contacted: NE,…
Build a Mega Menu with Ultimenu and Bootstrap in Drupal 8
One of our customers asked how to build a mega menu in Drupal 8. Mega menus are menus with multi-column navigation. They are fastly becoming…
How to Use Google Webfonts in Your Drupal 8 Site
Although Drupal has reputation for being a developers’ platform, lots of user rely on Drupal’s admin area for key tasks. For typography in Drupal sites,…
Allow Your Users to Choose Drupal Entities with the Entity Browser Module
In this blog post, I’m going to show you to enable Drupal users to select entities using the “Entity Browser” module. This tutorial was requested…
How to Create Drupal Charts With Views
There are many ways to present data to your readers. One example would be a table or a list. Sometimes the best approach is to…
How to Use the CKEditor Accordion in Drupal 8
As you already learned in a previous tutorial, CKEditor, the default WYSIWYG Editor for Drupal 8, can be enhanced through the installation of different plugins.…
Dropdown Menus in Drupal 8 with the Superfish Module
If you want to build a large, multi-level drop-down menu in Drupal 8, then the Superfish module is a great choice. The Superfish module makes…
How to Import Data from CSV Files to Drupal with Content Import
Sometimes you may need to import data from a CSV file into Drupal. We’ve spoken with OSTraining users who need to import from another CMS,…
How to Create a Request Contact Form in Drupal 7
An OSTraining member has asked us how to create a request form in Drupal 7. They needed to process requests using this workflow: A customer…
How to Install CKEditor Plugins in Drupal 8
CKEditor is the WYSIWYG editor that you’ll see in Drupal 8. The default installation of CKEditor has a lot of options, but you can also…
How to Create a Search Box with a Sliding Effect in Drupal 8
One of OSTraining members asked how to create a search box with a sliding out effect. Their goal was to arrive at the search box…
How to Use the Fullcalendar View Module in Drupal 8
One of our customers asked us how to integrate a calendar with events on their site. The Calendar module is the most popular module in…
How to Highlight the Menu Item of the Current Page in Drupal
One of our customers asked how to highlight an active menu item in Drupal and how to keep it highlighted once it has been clicked.…
How to use Search API Solr Search in Drupal 8
Apache Solr is a very popular open source search platform, based on the Java Lucene Library. Solr is very stable, scalable and reliable and provides…
Create WordPress Forms that Open and Close Automatically
Gator Forms is our favorite WordPress forms plugin. One of the reasons we like it so much is that it has a wide range of display…
Place a WordPress Form on the Side or Top of Your Site
Gator Forms is our favorite WordPress forms plugin. One of the reasons we like it so much is that it has a wide range of…
How to Use the New Layout Builder in Drupal 8
Earlier on the OSTraining blog, Steve Burge gave an introduction to the new Layout Builder in Drupal 8. Many users have been eagerly waiting for…