OSToolbar for WordPress: Give Tutorial Videos to Your Clients
This week we’ve rolled out an update for the OSToolbar for WordPress. If you haven’t used it, OSToolbar allows you to provide our training videos…
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.
Traffic from India is Growing at a Rapid Speed
Several times every year, I wake up, check our traffic stats and think, “YIKES!!” I’m looking a drop of 40% to 50% in our overnight…
Microweber, a New Laravel-based CMS
It’s a brave team that launches a new CMS into such crowded and established marketplace. Boris Sokolov and his team are doing exactly that with…
Paid Memberships Pro for WordPress Membership Sites
I’ve been asked to give a talk about building membership sites with WordPress. Membership sites is a topic I could talk on for hours, but…
Cameroon Doody of GetBellhops.com and Chattanooga
Welcome to the “New Tech Cities” series at OSTraining. In this series we’re talking about cities that were rundown but are re-inventing themselves, as using…
Automattic Buys WooCommerce for Over $30 Million
Wow. There was huge news this week that impacted both WordPress and e-commerce in general. Automattic (the parent company of WordPress.com) purchased WooCommerce for over…
Vote on New Classes You Want at OSTraining
What classes would you like to see added at OSTraining? We’re excited to announce that we have a new “Class Ideas” area at OSTraining where…
DrupalCon Los Angeles and Where DrupalCons are Headed
DrupalCon Los Angeles took place from May 11 to 15 and three of our team were there. Three of our team joined over 3100 people…
Kim White from River City Company and Chattanooga
In this series we’re talking about cities that were rundown but are re-inventing themselves, as using technology to do so. We’re trying to get to…
Beau Moffatt from Chattanooga and WordPress
In this series we’re talking about cities that were rundown but are re-inventing themselves, as using technology to do so. We’re trying to get to…
Emoji are the Most Important WordPress Feature in Years
One of the major features in WordPress 4.2 is emoji support. The inclusion of emoji did not go down well with everyone. Here are some…
The Wierdest, Busiest WordPress Week Ever
If you run a WordPress site, I hope you weren’t on vacation over the last week. The last part of April has been the strangest,…
3 Videos to Get You Started with GIMP Layers
GIMP is a really powerful and free alternative to Photoshop. Over the last few weeks, we’ve released a video series on GIMP that includes over…
The $200 Million Marketing Budgets Behind Shopify, Squarespace and Wix
Yesterday, Shopify, the e-commerce website building platform, filed for an IPO. A couple of months ago we covered the website platform industry and saw that…
7 Videos to Help Publish Your Plugin on WordPress.org
There are over 37,000 plugins on WordPress.org. That means it must be really easy to get your new plugin published on WordPress.org, right? Wrong. It’s…
Help Us Create Free Drupal 8 Training Videos
Drupal 8 is just around the corner, and the Drupal community is excited! We want to make sure that as many people as possible can…
5 Videos to Get Anyone Started with GIMP
If you’re looking for a powerful, free alternative to Photoshop, GIMP is a great choice. GIMP (short for “GNU Image Manipulation Program”) is available for Linux,…
New Video Class: Git and Version Control, Part 2
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.…
Going to California for DrupalCon Los Angeles
Some cities are world class destinations. London, New York, Barcelona, Sydney, Hong Kong … you know the names. DrupalCon isn’t always held in a world…
Mike Bradshaw from Company Lab in Chattanooga
Welcome to the “New Tech Cities” series at OSTraining. In this series we’re talking about cities that were rundown but are re-inventing themselves, as using…