Linkit, CKEditor and Drupal: A Video Introduction
CKEditor is a powerful editing tool that makes content creation in Drupal far more flexible and enjoyable. However, CKEditor has some drawbacks. For example, CKEditor…
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.
Why Does User Experience Design Matter?
David Hurley is one of the lead developers and evangelists for the Joomla project, but he started out as a graphic designer. In this video,…
Learn to Make Your Drupal Site Social
Every single Monday we launch a new video class. We then announce the class with tweets, Facebook posts and Google+ messages. Many of those are…
Joomla 3 Day is August 15th
We released Joomla! Explained almost exactly three years ago. That guide to Joomla 2.5 became the best-selling and best-reviewed Joomla book. Now, we’re delighted to…
Understand WordPress Actions and Filters in 5 Minutes
Actions and filters are two of the most useful features of the WordPress Plugin API. An action allows you to write a function that runs…
Scald: Media Management for Drupal
Until now, when people asked us how to handle media in Drupal, we recommended a couple of solutions: A WYSIWYG module with the IMCE module…
Project Planning and Estimation with User Stories
Most of us dabble in project management as part of our jobs. We need to keep our projects on track and try the best we…
Remove Client Accounts from Your Google Analytics
When we’re building a site, and particularly when we’re migrating a site, clients often give us Google Analytics access. When you’re migrating a site from…
Learn to Build a WordPress Real Estate Site
This week’s new class is a site-building project for WordPress. Our teacher Topher is going to show you how to create functional real estate website…
8 Answers for All Drupal 6 Site Owners
With all the discussion of Drupal 8, we’ve heard more and more questions from nervous people with Drupal 6 sites. In truth, the status of…
Day 1 Review of the Pagekit CMS
9 months ago we wrote a Day 1 review of the Ghost platform. Ghost is designed to be nothing but a blog. Now along comes…
25 Videos in New Drupal Commerce Class
Drupal Commerce has long been one of our most requested topics. So we’re really pleased to complete our 25-video class on Drupal Commerce. To really…
WordPress Galleries and Sliders: 3 Options
WordPress is often accused of lacking features. But, it’s amazing what you can do with the WordPress core and just one or two plugins. Did…
Your Open Source Event Should be Free
I think we charge far too much for open source events. Why do we hold community events for the software we use? Most of the…
We’re Teaching at DrupalCon Amsterdam
Amsterdam is one of the most important cities for open source anywhere in the world. Inside the last year alone, WordCamp Europe, JandBeyond, the Open…
New Drupal Commerce Video Class
Drupal Commerce has long been one of our most requested topics. Not only are we we launching the first part of a new video class…
The State of Drupal 8: July 2014
It’s been 8 months since our last overview of Drupal 8. A good number of OSTraining members went to DrupalCon Austin or to DrupalCamps this…
Display Post Shortcodes Helps Show WordPress Content
I love the Display Post Shortcodes plugin. I’m not alone because Display Post Shortcodes has an almost perfect rating on WordPress.org and is an official…
The 20 Most Popular Drupal 7 Modules
One of the most common questions we get from new Drupal users is, “Which modules do people normally use?” That’s a big question, with over…
Free JoomlaPraise Templates and Extensions
JoomlaPraise is a Joomla company that provided outstanding templates and extensions. However, the owners of the company recently moved to new jobs with large enterprise-level…