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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.
    Which Form Should You Choose in Mautic

    OSTips – Which Form Should You Choose in Mautic

    One of the questions I get every once in a while when I’m creating a form in Mautic to embed on my website is which…

    Rod Martin October 23, 2020
    1 Comment
    How to Hide the Login Page On Your WordPress Site

    OSTips – How to Hide the Login Page On Your WordPress Site

    One of the ways hackers and bots try to break your WordPress site is by going to /login and hammering away at the login screen.…

    Rod Martin October 16, 2020
    1 Comment
    E-Commerce Inside Drupal Made Easy

    OSTips – E-Commerce Inside Drupal Made Easy

    How would you like to be able to set up an ecommerce platform on your drupal site in less than 60 seconds? You can! In…

    Rod Martin October 9, 2020
    4 Comments
    How to Create New Date & Time Formats in Drupal

    OSTips – How to Create New Date & Time Formats in Drupal

    I don’t know about you, but as a site builder when I add a date field to a content type in Drupal, and I tell…

    Rod Martin September 25, 2020
    0 Comments
    How To Keep Your WordPress Site Up To Date

    OSTips – How To Keep Your WordPress Site Up To Date

    One of the fastest ways your WordPress site will get hacked is if you don’t pay attention. Well ,how do you know when stuff needs attention?…

    Rod Martin September 18, 2020
    0 Comments
    Add CSS & Javascript to Your Drupal Site

    OSTips – Add CSS & Javascript to Your Drupal Site

    So you’re a Drupal 8 site builder, and you don’t have access to the theme, but you need to test out some CSS or JavaScript…

    Rod Martin September 4, 2020
    0 Comments
    Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Joomla

    OSTips – Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Joomla

    Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Joomla has always been a bit of a crapshoot. Well not anymore!  As I just said, it’s sometimes really hard…

    Rod Martin August 28, 2020
    0 Comments
    How to Personalize the Subject Line in Your Emails in Mautic

    OSTips – How to Personalize the Subject Line in Your Emails in Mautic

    One of the things that’s going to get your emails opened by people is if they see their own name in the subject line. Well…

    Rod Martin August 21, 2020
    0 Comments
    The Drupal Scheduler Module

    OSTips-The Drupal Scheduler Module

    I’ve never understood why you can’t schedule the publication or unpublish a node in Drupal. WordPress does it. Joomla does it. Well guess what –…

    Rod Martin August 14, 2020
    1 Comment
    Quickly Create Joomla Websites With Your Own Distribution

    OSTips-How To Easily Replace Media In Drupal 8

    One of the great things about Drupal’s new media manager is the ability to easily see all the media you’re using on your website. What…

    Rod Martin July 31, 2020
    1 Comment
    Enforcing Strong Passwords in WordPress

    OSTips-Enforcing Strong Passwords in WordPress

    In this video, I’m going to show you how you to enforce strong passwords in your WordPress site. Weak passwords are probably the number one…

    Rod Martin July 31, 2020
    2 Comments
    Quickly Create Joomla Websites With Your Own Distribution

    OSTips-Quickly Create Joomla Websites With Your Own Distribution

    In this episode I’m going to show you how to build a Joomla distribution so that you can create brand-new websites out on the Internet…

    Rod Martin July 16, 2020
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    Quickly Create Joomla Websites With Your Own Distribution

    OSTips-Speed Up Creating WordPress Posts & Pages

    in this episode, I’m gonna help you make creating your WordPress posts and pages go even faster. If you’re like me, you love the new…

    Rod Martin July 16, 2020
    0 Comments
    Build Your Own Digital Asset Management System in Drupal

    OSTips – Build Your Own Digital Asset Management System in Drupal

    You can create your own Digital Asset Management System right inside your Drupal 8 website using nothing but core modules.  Watch our video and learn…

    Rod Martin July 10, 2020
    0 Comments
    Date and Time Formats in Drupal 8

    Date and Time Formats in Drupal 8

    One of the questions we see regularly is “How do I change the date and time format in my views and posts?”  The most common…

    Rod Martin April 19, 2020
    3 Comments
    Publish Content in Drupal 8 Using the Scheduler Module

    Publish Content in Drupal 8 Using the Scheduler Module

    One of the most basic features of modern content management systems is the ability to easily create and schedule content for publication.  It would be…

    Rod Martin April 13, 2020
    0 Comments
    How to Remove Unused Modules in Drupal 8

    How to Remove Unused Modules in Drupal 8

    One of the important aspects of keeping your Drupal 8 site up-to-date, secure and performing well is to remove unused modules. There are a number…

    Rod Martin March 16, 2020
    9 Comments
    Add Custom CSS and Javascript To Your Drupal 8 Site

    Add Custom CSS and Javascript To Your Drupal 8 Site

    One of the most common questions in our training is how to add custom CSS or Javascript to a Drupal site. The best solution, of…

    Rod Martin March 5, 2020
    8 Comments

    A Review of the Bridge WordPress Theme from Qode Interactive

    The Bridge theme is a highly customizable, creative multi-purpose theme for WordPress and as of November 2019, it includes Elementor and WPBakery, two of the…

    Rod Martin January 24, 2020
    2 Comments
    How To Replace Media in Drupal 8

    How To Replace Media in Drupal 8

    Now that the media module is in core (watch our class on the Media Module here), we’re starting to see some contributed modules come along…

    Rod Martin January 7, 2020
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