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    Author: Rod Martin

    Rod holds two masters degrees and has been training people how to do "things" for over 25 years. Originally from Australia, he grew up in Canada and now resides just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. He has worked in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds, in small companies and large corporations. His extensive open source experience includes WordPress, Joomla and Drupal and he really knows how to help you get the most out of the system you chose. Rod plays ice hockey a couple of times a week and rides his Goldwing motorcycle pretty much everywhere he can.
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    Introducing Drupal Starshot: A New Version of Drupal CMS

    For 20 plus years, Drupal has been the content management system of choice for some of the world’s largest and most successful websites.  With that…

    Rod Martin May 9, 2024
    2 Comments

    How To Open A PDF In A New Tab or Window in Drupal

    Whenever I embed a PDF, or any document for that matter in a Drupal website, I always prefer to have the document open in a…

    Rod Martin December 12, 2023
    0 Comments
    Learn How To Use Visual Studio Code and DDEV with Drupal

    Learn How To Maximize Your Drupal Development With Visual Studio Code With DDEV.

    I have just returned from NedCamp ’23 (New England Drupal Camp – https://nedcamp.org) where I taught the “Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Drupal”. It’s always a…

    Rod Martin November 22, 2023
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    The Best Drupal Site Building Workflow

    Today, we want to share with you one of the best tips we ever give to Drupal site builders – the Drupal Site Building Workflow.…

    Rod Martin June 2, 2023
    5 Comments
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    How to Use Drupal to Create Your Own URL Shortener

    Problem: You’re over at tinyurl.com (or any of the other URL shortening services) and the shortcut you want to use isn’t available. Solution: Use Drupal!…

    Rod Martin June 1, 2023
    0 Comments

    Great New Features for Site Builders in Drupal 10.1

    Drupal 10.1 is set to drop on June 21st, 2023 (subject to change of course). This minor update comes with some great enhancements for the…

    Rod Martin May 31, 2023
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    How To Move a Drupal Site From Gitpod.io To A Live Server

    In this tutorial we show you how to move a Drupal site from our Gitpod repository to a live Drupal server.
    Rod Martin January 16, 2023
    8 Comments

    What is an “Ambitious Site Builder” in Drupal?

    The phrase "Ambitious Site Builder" is how Dries views the Drupal audience to be.
    Rod Martin October 19, 2022
    3 Comments

    A Better Administration Theme for Drupal!

    Want to learn how you can give your content editors a better experience with a better administration theme for Drupal? Well you are in the right place…
    Rod Martin October 5, 2022
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    Crop and Size in Drupal

    The Best Way to Scale and Crop Your Images in Drupal

    Best Way to Scale and Crop Your Images in Drupal. Focal Point allows you to pinpoint that area where your scale and crop is going to zoom in on when y…
    Rod Martin September 18, 2022
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    How to manage joomla and wordpress sites using watchful

    Manage Multiple WordPress or Joomla Sites with Watchful

    Manage Multiple WordPress or Joomla Sites with Watchful. Watchful is a service that allows you to manage both WordPress and Joomla websites by running…
    Rod Martin September 3, 2022
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    Improving the Joomla Editing Experience

    Can we make the editing experience in Joomla better? Yes we can. We are trying to make the editing experience for content editors in various…

    Rod Martin August 25, 2022
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    How To Create an Advanced Accordion View in Drupal 9

    Here is a scenario someone posed to us:  “I have a content type “Staff Member” with fields of photo department, title, first name, last name,…

    Rod Martin July 2, 2022
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    Behind the Scenes of the Admin Panels of Joomla 4

    Behind the Scenes of the Admin Panels of Joomla 4
    Rod Martin June 29, 2022
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    How to Embed ANY Remote Video using Drupal 9’s Media Manager

    Updated May 1, 2023 (the instructions changed with Drupal 10) I love the media manager in Drupal 9 (and 10) that is no secret, anyone…

    Rod Martin May 31, 2022
    3 Comments

    OSTips – Can You Really Manage Your Drupal Site On An iPad?

    So you head outside for a break maybe to the park because it’s a beautiful day. You’re sitting there relaxing, and you get a call…

    Rod Martin August 18, 2021
    2 Comments

    OSTips – How to Force Strong Passwords in Drupal 9

    One of the problems in Drupal core “out of the box” is that you can pretty much use anything you want for a password.  And…

    Rod Martin August 13, 2021
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    OSTips – How to Display a PDF in Browser with Drupal 9 & 8

    We’ve been posting blogs about Drupal for over 10 years at OSTraining, and so every once in a while someone finds an old blog post…

    Rod Martin July 29, 2021
    4 Comments

    OSTips-Can You Manage Your Joomla Site On An iPad?

    It’s April 14, 2010. I’m on a motorcycle on my way from where I live, outside of Cincinnati, to a town called Sussex, New Brunswick…

    Rod Martin July 22, 2021
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    OSTips – Here We Go Again! The Changes Coming To Drupal 10

    (Transcript of the OSTips Video) During this year’s Drupalcon North America, Dries took to the stage at his DriesNote speech and mentioned that Drupal has…

    Rod Martin July 7, 2021
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      Hey Jason, that is a very old class (2013) for Drupal 7. Here's the link: https://ostraining.com/courses/how-to-use-the-rules-module-in-drupal/ sorry about that.

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