The 2015 OSTraining Report
This week marks six years since we launched online training here at OSTraining. And, it’s now nearly ten years since we started training people to…
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.
New Video Class: Drupal 7 Module Development
This week’s new video class is “Drupal 7 Module Development“. This massive new course is 57 videos long and covers everything you need to know…
New Video Class: Updating Drupal 8 Sites
This week’s Drupal class is essential for anyone who manages a Drupal website. In this class, Robert demonstrates how to properly update Drupal 8. Since…
You Should Use the Drupal Security Review Module
There are two really useful checklist modules in Drupal: The SEO Checklist module gives you a rundown of all the search-engine optimization fixes you can…
What Are WordPress Template Tags?
In this video, we’re going to take a look at WordPress template tags. If you’re a PHP developer, you’ll recognize that template tags are simply…
Doug’s Success Story with OSTraining
When you give personalized, hand-holding mentoring and support, you get to know some of your students really well. I remember when Doug Beale came to…
How to Backup and Restore a Drupal 8 Site
Drupal 8 is here and ready to use right now. However, not all of the contributed modules are available yet. That includes the Backup and…
New Video Class: Drupal 7 Layout and Theming
This week’s new video class is “Drupal 7 Layout and Theming“. This massive new class is 56 videos long and covers everything you need to…
Video: Train Your Staff for Drupal 8
In mid-January we held a webinar with Acquia, explaining how to train your team on Drupal 8. This was an interesting webinar to run because…
What WordPress Template File Am I Using?
Sometimes you discover a plugin and wonder how you ever survived without it. For me, that’s true for the “What Template Am I Using?” plugin.…
Use Openlayers to Build Drupal Maps
Openlayers is a Javascript library that allows you to display maps from multiple sources. It works with Mapquest, Yahoo Maps, Stamen, Google Street Map, Open…
Your Complete Introduction to Drupal 8 Configuration Management
A lot of OSTraining members have started to experiment with Drupal 8. Some of the features are really well documented and are easy to use.…
Show Drupal Content Only With Terms of Specific Depth
Is it possible to allow Views to show only content that has child terms from a taxonomy? Yes, it is. This is similar but slightly different…
Show Only Specific Levels of Taxonomy in Views
One OSTraining member asked us this question: How can I set the filter criteria so that Views shows only the second level of a taxonomy?…
Use Views to Show Content Created by Drupal Users
One OSTraining member wanted to allow site admins to show the content created by different users. For example, the admins wanted to see all the…
Count the Total Number of Results in Drupal Views
One of our members wondered if it was possible to automatically calculate the number of results displayed in a View. Yes, this is definitely possible.…
Drupal 8 Themes for Beginners
A couple of years ago, we realized that a lot of Drupal beginners were asking us for simple, good-looking Drupal themes. These beginners didn’t want…
Add Onclick Events to Drupal Menu Links
We’ve written before that menu links are one of the more basic features on a Drupal site. One of our members wanted greater control over…
New Video Classes: Drupal 8 Backups and Installs
Last week, we published our roadmap for Drupal 8 classes. This week, we completed two more items on that roadmap with the release of “Backing…
How to Create a Calendar in Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is still a very new system and many contributed modules are just starting to catch up. However, there are some features already available…