Google Maps in Drupal with the GMap Module
Several times in the last few weeks, OSTraining students have asked us about maps in Drupal. The students wanted to set up directories that would…
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 Install PHPMyAdmin for WordPress
PHPMyAdmin is a database administration tool. It allows you to explore your database, make backups and, if neccessary, make changes to your database tables or…
Date and Time Formats in Drupal
One of our members had this question for us: “I’m using the Date module and I would like it to display morning as AM and…
Drupal File Access for Specific User Roles Only
By default, Drupal file fields have very limited permission options. So, if you want to make some files available only to certain user groups, you’ll…
Never, Ever Use FTP For Anything Ever Again
Do you use FTP to upload files to your website? If so, Topher, our WordPress teacher, has some advice for you. In this video, he’s…
Manually Select Content for Drupal Views
Normally, Drupal views are set up to run automatically. In these situations, every time new content is added, Views will instantly update its displays for…
Filter Drupal Content Based on File Type
One of our members asked an interesting question about Views. They had a file field on their user profiles. In that field, the user could…
OSTraining at the Joomla World Conference
In November, several of the OSTraining team headed to Cancun, Mexico We were there for the 3rd annual Joomla World Conference. To my knowledge, this…
How Did We Do? 10 CMS Predictions for 2014
At the beginning of this year, we made our CMS predictions for 2014. Some of those predictions were based on trends we saw in 2013.…
You Can Now Control the Speed of Video Lessons
The most requested feature at OSTraining was the ability to speed up videos. Many of you squeeze in time for training and want to progress…
How to Rewrite the Output of Views with PHP
Views is a very powerful tool that allows you to pull information from your database in many flexible ways. However, there will be situations where…
How to Sort Drupal Views Alphabetically
Alphabetical sorting is one of the most common ways people want to sort content in Views. You may want to sort many types of content…
WordCamp Orlando: See You There?
Florida rarely does small WordCamps. WordCamp Miami regularly attracts 600 to 700 attendees. This Friday and Saturday (December 5 and 6), we’re headed to WordCamp…
A Beginners Guide to the Drupal Services Module
The Services module allows you to provide web services from your Drupal site. Services is really popular and works with formats such as REST, XMLRPC,…
Beautiful Versions of the WordPress, Drupal and Joomla Logos
Earlier this year we wrote about some really interesting uses of the Drupal logo. Most of those logos were funny. Some were bizarre. This week,…
Drupal’s Basic Cart Module: So Close, But …
I wasn’t sure whether to publish this review or not. One of our members wanted a really simple shopping cart for Drupal. They found the…
100% New Drupal 7 Beginner Class
Over the last 3 years, we’ve launched nearly 40 video classes on Drupal. In that time, we’ve covered theming, site-building and almost all of the…
3 Major Features in WordPress 4.1
It seems like only a few weeks ago that WordPress 4.0 shipped. Well, the WordPress team are moving quickly, and version 4.1 is now due…
How to Use the Drupal Quiz Module
The Quiz module is a sophisticated and flexible way to create quizzes in Drupal. Quiz has many nice features such as Views integration, a jQuery-based…
Getting Started with the Make Theme for WordPress
One of our absolutely favorite WordPress themes is Make from the Theme Foundry. We use the Make theme in many of our training classes, and…