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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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    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
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    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
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    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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    Drupal 9 jQuery Accordian

    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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    Joomla 4 Admin Panel

    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

    I love the media manager in Drupal 9 that is no secret, anyone who’s taken my training over the last year has been inundated with…

    Rod Martin May 31, 2022
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    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
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    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
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    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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    OSTips – Alternatives to Acquia’s DevDesktop For Local Drupal Development

    Video Transcript: “If you’ve installed or updated Acquia’s DevDesktop lately, you’ve seen this message: And so you know that DevDesktop is approaching end of life.  …

    Rod Martin June 17, 2021
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    OSTips - Place Modules in Joomla with Advanced Module Manager

    OSTips – Place Modules in Joomla with Advanced Module Manager

    One of the things you expect from a modern content management system is a lot of flexibility. Well, Joomla doesn’t really give you a lot…

    Rod Martin January 15, 2021
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    Add Code to Articles and Modules in Joomla

    OSTips -Add Code to Articles and Modules in Joomla

    It’s one thing to carve the date in stone when you’re beautifying a town in rural Indiana, but it’s another thing if the footer of…

    Rod Martin December 11, 2020
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    Search and Replace in any Joomla Database Table

    OSTips – Search and Replace in any Joomla Database Table

    Replacing the content on one article or even two articles on your Joomla website is pretty simple, but what if you have to replace the…

    Rod Martin November 20, 2020
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    Creating a Copy of a Drupal Site in Acquia’s DevDesktop

    OSTips – Create a Drupal Site Copy in Acquia’s DevDesktop

    So you’re working away on your Drupal site using Acquia’s DevDesktop just like we do here at OSTraining, and you want to take a snapshot…

    Rod Martin November 12, 2020
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    Check Modules and Themes for Move to Drupal 9

    OSTips – Check Modules and Themes for Move to Drupal 9

    We all know that Drupal 9 is here, but is your site ready? In this video, I’m going to share with you 3 ways to…

    Rod Martin October 30, 2020
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