TemplateToaster Website Builder Review
Website development has been a difficult task for developers, especially those who are new in this field. But, with the advancement in technology, you can…
Author: Steve Burge
Steve is the founder of OSTraining. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. Steve's work straddles the line between teaching and web development.
How to Use the WP RSS Aggregator Plugin
Over the years, we’ve relied on RSS feeds for many different tasks. Ten years ago, we used RSS feeds to create news sites, pulling in…
A Review of the Modern Events Calendar Plugin for WordPress
Finding the best WordPress event calendar for event management can be a challenging task. If you are a website owner and plan to create events…
How to Add Push Notification to Your WordPress Website
Content creation is one thing, but content distribution is a completely different ball game. Most websites master the art of content creation and still wonder…
How to Use WooCommerce Product Revisions
WooCommerce is the most popular way to build an eCommerce site with WordPress. If you are careful with your product listings, you will want to…
PublishPress Revisions is the Major New Version of Revisionary
Revisionary is a WordPress plugin that has been around for nearly 10 years. Revisionary allowed you to moderate or schedule changes to published posts. The…
How to Schedule a Revision to Go Live in WordPress
One OSTraining user asked us this week if it was possible to schedule a revision to go live in the future. This would be very…
How to Moderate and Schedule Revisions in WordPress
WordPress has one of the most powerful revision systems available on any blogging platform. When you start writing in WordPress, your changes will be automatically…
The Next Decade at OSTraining
OSTraining’s tenth anniversary is coming up on November 18th! This is a meaningful milestone, and we owe a huge “Thank You” to OSTraining’s members, viewers…
How to Change Edit Permissions For WordPress Content
WordPress is an excellent platform for writing, editing and publishing content. So it’s important to know who has permission to do that on your WordPress…
Notifications For Yoast SEO Scores in WordPress Posts
We’ve written about the PublishPress plugin before on this blog. In one popular post, we showed how to email WordPress users when a new post…
Allow WordPress Users to Create Only Lower-level Accounts
WordPress arrives with five user roles that you’ll see on a new site. Subscriber Contributor Author Editor Administrator These roles are in a hierarchy from…
The WooCommerce Explained Book Is Ready for WooCommerce 3.7
This week we’ve published a major update for WooCommerce Explained, the best-selling WooCommerce book. This book will teach you everything you need to know to…
How to Remove Unwanted WordPress User Roles
By default, WordPress arrives with five default user roles: Contributor, Subscriber, Author, Editor, and Administrator. However, when you start installing plugins, you may see many…
New Book Update: Local Web Development With DDEV Explained
For many years, web developers have relied on WAMP, MAMP, XAMPP and other local development tools. However those tools have some severe limitations, particularly if…
Introducing the Flexbox Explained Book from OSTraining
Say “hello” to the 13th book from OSTraining. We’re delighted to announce the launch of “Flexbox Explained” by Jorge Montoya and Steve Burge. Flexbox Explained…
How to Give WordPress Users Their Own Content to Edit
One OSTraining user asked us if it was possible to give everyone their own content in WordPress. For example, is it possible to create a…
How to Build User Profiles With Fields in Drupal 8
By default, a Drupal 8 user account collects only very basic information about the user. And, most of that information is not visible to visitors…
There’s a New Version of the CSS Grid Explained Book
CSS Grid is revolutionizing webdesign For the last two decades, we’ve relied on CSS to lay out websites, but it has always been missing some…
How to Use the New Pre-Publish Checks in WordPress
It’s amazing how much has been written about the new Gutenberg editor for WordPress. But many people haven’t really started to the use Gutenberg in…