How to Create a Popular Articles View in Drupal
Many sites want to showcase their most popular content to visitors. However, creating a “Popular Articles” list in Drupal is harder than it might seem.…
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 Book Launch: MySQL Explained
Do you use Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, Magento or other PHP software? If you answered “yes”, then you use MySQL. MySQL is the world’s most popular…
Should I Use Context or Panels for Drupal Sites?
There are multiple different ways to design a Drupal site. You can code your theme, or you can use modules such as Panels, Context and…
15 Great Themes for Your WooCommerce Store
If you want to create a fully-functional online store, then you should consider WooCommerce, the most popular way to build an online store. In order…
Drupal 8 is Close and So Are the 200 Free Videos
Last week the Drupal 8 community hit an important milestone with the first Release Candidate for Drupal 8. What does “Release Candidate” mean? It means…
What is the Drupal 7 Dashboard?
When you login to a Drupal site, the very first link you will see in the admin bar is “Dashboard”. Even though it’s the first…
Webinar: Increase Conversions to Your Membership Site
Here at OSTraining, we’re huge fans of memberships sites. They’re a wonderful way to create value for your members, create a community, and build a…
Use Adminimal for a Responsive Admin in Drupal 7
Do you want many of the benefits of the new Drupal 8 admin area, without actually needing to upgrade? Check out the Adminimal theme. Adminimal…
New Video Class: Speeding up Joomla
If you run a Joomla site, then you really need this week’s new video class from Rod Martin called “Speeding up Joomla“. Rod starts by…
All About WooCommerce’s New Onboarding Process
WooCommerce 2.4 was released in August, and had a really cool codename, “the Helpful Hedgehog.” Why did the WooCommerce team choose that name? Because they…
5 Steps to Build a Drupal 8 Multi-lingual Site
Drupal 8 is a massive undertaking. It’s already been 5 years in the making. Why did it take so long? Partly because so many important…
Our 14-video DesktopServer Class is Now Free
We love DesktopServer. It’s one of the very best ways to develop WordPress sites on your own computer. So today we’re happy to annnounce that…
Use Views to Control Drupal’s Taxonomy Pages
Whenever a user clicks on a taxonony term, they will see a page showing all content tagged with that term. By default, Drupal shows the…
Use Views to Display Fields inside Panels
One of our members had a problem. They wanted to display a large number of images inside a Panel. The images were all uploaded to…
How to Use Aggregation and Compression in Drupal
By default, the Drupal 7 core loads around 20 different CSS and Javascript files. So, in order to make your Drupal site run quickly, it’s…
Introducing the 5 New Fields in Drupal 8
The Drupal 8 core has far more features than the Drupal 7 core. Many popular contributed modules have been included in the core, including five…
Redirect Drupal Webform Submissions Based on Answers
This week one of our members came up with an interesting question about the Webform module. They wanted to redirect users to different pages depending…
How to Create a REST API Export in Drupal 8
Creating a REST API export in Drupal 7 is not always an easy process. In a previous tutorial, we explained how to use the Services…
The Simmer Plugin for WordPress Food Sites
Food blogs are enormously popular at the moment. The Simmer plugin is a great option for building a food site in WordPress. Simmer enables you to…
Views Bulk Operations Makes Mass Updates Easy in Drupal
Views Bulk Operations (VBO) is one of those modules whose name and Drupal.org description doesn’t indicate how useful it is. Here’s the short version of…