We’re Hiring Additional WordPress Video Teachers
Do you enjoy teaching WordPress? Do you have between 10 and 40 hours per month? If so, you should consider working with us as a…
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.
An Apology to Brian Teeman
This week, I messed up badly and owe an apology. I published two video classes that were created by Brian Teeman. I took Brian’s name,…
8 Things to Know About the Drupal Security Issue
By now you’ve probably heard about the extremely serious Drupal security issue from mid-October. The Drupal security team issued a new warning two weeks later…
See You at the Joomla World Conference?
The Joomla team are doing something really different with this year’s Joomla World Conference. Instead of being stuck in a cavernous venue with people spread…
Auto-Update or Die
One of the really interesting and scary things about this month’s Drupal issue is how fast the hackers moved. Hackers moved faster than the vast…
How to Check Your Drupal Site Security
If you weren’t able to update your Drupal site within a few hours on October 15th, you may be worried about your site. Even under…
Node Gallery: The Easiest Drupal Photo Gallery
We have several different Drupal photo gallery tutorials on this blog. The most popular is Views Photo Galleries for Drupal 7, followed closely by an…
Re-name Your WordPress Login Area
One of the most common ways that people attack WordPress sites is via the wp-login.php file. Hackers try a “brute force attack” where they simply…
Two Free Tickets for DrupalCamp Ohio
Rod Martin, our Director of Training, is going back to DrupalCamp Ohio and he’d love to meet you there. DrupalCamp Ohio is being held again…
All OSTraining Extensions are Moving to Alledia.com
We have some news today about all the Joomla extensions currently hosted on OSTraining. We’re moving almost all our extensions from ostraining.com to Alledia.com. Why…
Drupal 7.32 is an Absolutely Necessary Update
We’re accustomed to the Drupal security team releasing security fixes. Fortunately, most of the fixes were relatively minor. They either impacted a small group of…
The Payment Module: A Simpler Alternative to Drupal Commerce
Here at OSTraining we’ve given significant coverage to Drupal Commerce. You can watch a video class with nearly 30 lessons and download a book, “Building…
New Video Class: Pods Framework for WordPress
WordPress is all about creating content. WordPress arrives with Posts and Pages, which you can organize using Categories and Tags. But, what if you need…
6 Modules to Avoid Before Drupal 8 Arrives
Over the last few months, Dave Reid, one of the most active Drupal developers, has been giving a presentation called “Future-proof your Drupal 7 site”.…
How Many Sites Use Plain Text Passwords?
In the last couple of years, at least two popular web design sites have been hacked and had customer data stolen. In 2014 it was…
Join DrupalCon Amsterdam From Your Desk
DrupalCon Amsterdam takes place this week. Nearly 2000 people are going to be at the venue itself, but even more will join remotely. If you’re…
Simple Renew: the New Joomla Subscription Extension
Here at OSTraining, we’ve made a lot of mistakes in building this site. It’s been really hard to run a successful subscription site. A couple…
Use the Drupal ShareThis Module
Last year, we wrote about 4 social sharing modules for Drupal: Service Links, Social Share, AddThis, AddToAny. ShareThis is another useful option for adding Facebook,…
We’re Hiring Video Trainers
Do you enjoy teaching web design? Do you have between 10 and 40 hours per month? If so, you should consider working with us. We’re…
Day 1 Review of Discourse
Discourse is new open-source discussion software. Version 1.0 of Discourse launched at the end of August. Within days, both the SitePoint and Twitter developer forums…