Move Your Drupal Site to a New Location
This tutorial will show you how to move your Drupal site from one server to another. This example uses two live servers, however the same…
Author: Robbie Adair
Robbie started her career in corporate training until starting her own custom training and media company almost seventeen years ago. In 2010, she began doing classroom training for OSTraining while running Media A-Team. She is often presenting about various tech topics such as Joomla, Fabrik, Web Development, Social Media, and Augmented Reality. She loves seeing that "ah-ha" moment in peoples eyes in her sessions and workshops. She lives in Houston, Texas, but enjoys all the travel for client work and speaking gigs.
How to Install WordPress Locally on a P.C.
This tutorial will show you how to install WordPress locally on your P.C.. We’re going to use WAMP for this task. WAMP stands for “Windows,…
Using Rokbox in WordPress
Rokbox is a popular plugin made by Rockettheme for Joomla. It allows you to display images inside a stylish pop-up. You can see the Joomla…
Find and Edit Drupal CSS Problems
The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to find and fix problems with your Drupal templates. We’re going to focus on CSS…
Finding and Installing WordPress Themes
This tutorial will show you how to find, install and activate free themes for your WordPress site. Video on Installing WordPress Themes Go to the…
Creating RSS Feeds in Drupal Using Views
This tutorial will show you how to create a custom RSS feed in Drupal. To do this you’ll need to have the Views module uploaded…
Using the Flutter Plugin for WordPress
Flutter is a WordPress plugin that allows you to move beyond simple posts and pages in WordPress. You can create different types of pages with…
Adding a New Drupal Block Position
We’re going to be adding a block position to a Drupal 6 theme called ShallowGrunge: http://drupal.org/project/shallowgrunge The Goal One of our students wanted to put…
Hiding a WordPress Site from Search Engines
This tutorial shows an easy way to work on a WordPress site without taking it live. There is a setting that makes the search engines…
Creating a Workflow for Drupal Users
This week’s tutorial is the second of a two-parter. We’ve had several students in our classes looking to build websites with multiple content authors ……
Allow Drupal Users to Manage Their Own Content
This week’s tutorial is the first of a two-parter. We’ve had several students in our classes looking to build websites with multiple content authors ……
Adding Metadata to Drupal Nodes
This week’s tutorial explains how to add metadata to your Drupal site. By default, Drupal has no fields for metadata. Check the source code at…
Importing RSS Feeds Into WordPress Posts
This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and import it into your WordPress site. Each item on the RSS feed will…
Improving Drupal’s Clean URLs with the Pathauto Module
This tutorial was requested by a student who is learning the Drupal basics. They turned on “Clean URLs” in the Drupal admin area and were…
First Baptist Church Atlanta Launches Joomla Site
We just had this wonderful email from one of our Joomla training clients. Paulo and his team came to the class knowing nothing about Joomla,…
Showing Different Drupal Themes on Different Pages
This tutorial was written after a request in one of this week’s Drupal classes: “How do I show different Drupal themes on different pages?”. The…
Adding a WYSIWYG Editor to Your Drupal Site
What is a WYSIWYG Editor and Why Do You Need It? So your site users don’t have to use code. Its as simple as that.…
Blocking Spam Comments and Users on Your Drupal Site
Why Block Spam Comments? If you site is new, this might not be too much of a problem. However, as your site grows, it will…
How to Add a Sitemap to Your Drupal Website
Why Add a Sitemap? I’ll be honest and say that I don’t believe sitemaps improve your ranking in search engines. However, they do make sure…
Showing an RSS Feed in a Drupal Block
In this tutorial we’ll show you how to place an RSS feed inside a block. You can then display that RSS feed anywhere around your…