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.…
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.
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!…
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…
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.
What is an “Ambitious Site Builder” in Drupal?
The phrase "Ambitious Site Builder" is how Dries views the Drupal audience to be.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…