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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.
    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
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    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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    3 Modules to Enhance Drupal 8 Layout Builder

    3 Modules to Enhance Drupal 8 Layout Builder

    When Layout Builder was introduced into Drupal 8 Core, it gave Site Builders a tremendous amount of flexibility previously reserved for Front End Developers (or…

    Rod Martin January 6, 2020
    5 Comments
    How To Manage Image Styles for Media in Drupal 8

    How To Manage Image Styles for Media in Drupal 8

    For years, Drupal site builders have endured a less than great experience with any media they wanted to use.  It was difficult to manage and…

    Rod Martin January 3, 2020
    7 Comments
    How to Automatically Add Stripe's Fee Using RSForm!Pro

    How to Automatically Add Stripe’s Fee Using RSForm!Pro

    It’s fairly easy to create a simple payment system using RSForm!Pro in Joomla!.  When you combine it with Stripe as the payment processor, you get…

    Rod Martin November 17, 2019
    1 Comment
    Using Content Versions in Joomla

    Using Content Versions in Joomla

    Do you edit a particular article on a regular basis? Do you ever make mistakes and hit Save and Close too quickly? If you answered…

    Rod Martin October 31, 2019
    0 Comments
    3 Options for Contact Forms in WordPress

    3 Options for Contact Forms in WordPress

    One very popular WordPress beginner question is “How do I create a contact form in WordPress?“. When you search for a contact form plugin in…

    Rod Martin June 2, 2018
    1 Comment
    Creating Printer-friendly Versions of Wordpress Posts

    Creating Printer-Friendly Versions of WordPress Posts and Pages

    In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to place Print This Post buttons into WordPress posts and pages. The main reason you’d want to do this…

    Rod Martin May 26, 2017
    7 Comments
    How to Add a Sitemap to Your WordPress Site

    How to Add a Sitemap to Your WordPress Site

    Every website needs a sitemap, but it might not be for the reasons you expect. Sitemaps do not improve your ranking in search engines. However,…

    Rod Martin May 15, 2017
    11 Comments
    Drupal 8 Site Building

    New Video Class: Drupal 8 Site Building

    This week’s new video class is “Drupal 8 Site Building“. This class follows on from last week’s Drupal 8 Beginner Class. If you watched the…

    Rod Martin December 16, 2015
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    Drupal 8 Beginner

    New Video Class: Drupal 8 Beginner

    This week’s new video class is “Drupal 8 Beginner“. This class teaches you all of the essential concepts and knowledge you need to get started…

    Rod Martin December 1, 2015
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      I will check. Thank You.

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      And, if you were more thinking code blocks, here's information about those - https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206543167-Code-blocks

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      Sara, Squarespace doesn't exactly have shortcodes, but they have keyboard shortcuts - here's a list of all of them: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/214491097-Squarespace-keyboard-shortcuts-and-tips…

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      great plugin, do you have knowledge to use this type of plugin in my Squarespace website?

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