How to Manage User and Role Permissions in Drupal 8
This tutorial is all about managing users on your Drupal 8 site. I’ll show you how to control who can do what on your site:…
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.
The OSTraining Podcast #32: Josh Strebel on Pagely and NorthStack
Welcome to the OSTraining podcast in 2019. In this first episode of the year, I talk with Josh Strebel from Pagely. We focus on his…
The Big Wheel Turns for WordPress and Drupal
“The big wheel keeps on turning On a simple line day by day The earth spins on its axis One man struggle while another relaxes”…
Gutenberg Videos Arrive at OSTraining
This week’s new video class brings the new Gutenberg editor to the OSTraining library. “The Beginners Guide to WordPress” is now 100% up-to-date for the…
How to Add Image Blocks in the WordPress Gutenberg Editor
In a previous blog post, we explained that the new Gutenberg editor has moved many key text features into blocks. The same is true with…
Gutenberg is the Biggest Ever Open Source Software Launch
WordPress 5 is available today. The headline feature is the new Gutenberg editor. This is perhaps the biggest single-day release in the history of open source…
Genesis Explained is Updated for WPEngine and Genesis 2.7
Genesis Explained is the latest OSTraining book to be updated. This new release talk about the recently sale of Genesis to WPEngine. This release also included…
How to SEO Optimize Your Multilingual WordPress Site
If you have a multilingual website, it’s worth thinking about the SEO challenges you’ll face. Most website owners only need to optimize for one language.…
WooCommerce Looks Really Different on WordPress.com
Until the middle of 2017, it wasn’t possible to install any plugins on WordPress.com. If you used WordPress.com, you got a very stripped-down WordPress experience. However,…
How to Use the Advanced Gutenberg Blocks Plugin
The new Gutenberg editor is due to arrive with WordPress 5.0 on November 27. We’re already starting to see new types of Gutenberg-specific plugin. These…
New Book: Local Web Development With DDEV Explained
Say “hello” to the 11th book from OSTraining. This new book introduces a new way to do local web development. “Local Web Development With DDEV…
How to Use Elementor with Advanced Custom Fields in WordPress
Elementor and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) are two of the most popular and powerful plugins in WordPress: Elementor is the leading page builder in WordPress,…
The OSTraining Podcast #31: Daniel Bachhuber on a Career in WordPress
Daniel has played a key role in Gutenberg, the WP REST API, the WP-CLI project, Co-Authors Plus, Edit Flow, Jetpack, Post Meta Inspector, Publishing Checklist,…
How to Use Entity Reference Views in Drupal 7
Entity Reference Views are one way you can make life easier for Drupal content creators. Normally, when people are creating content on your site, each…
The OSTraining Podcast #30: Andy McIlwain on GoDaddy and Gutenberg
Andy McIlwain is in charge of the WordPress area at The GoDaddy Garage – the official blog for one of the world’s biggest hosting companies.…
How to Set Up Dropdown Menus in Drupal 8
A few years ago, we published a very popular post called “How to Create Dropdown Menus in Drupal“. That post focused on Drupal 7, but…
New Book: CSS Grid Explained
CSS Grid is revolutionizing the frontend web-design industry. For the last 20 years, web designers have used CSS to lay out web pages. However, CSS has…
Disable a WordPress Plugin Without Access to Your Admin Area
Normally, disabling a WordPress plugin is very simple and straightforward. How easy? You can login to your admin area, click the “Plugins” tab and click “Deactivate”…
The OSTraining Podcast #29: Dusty Davidson on Flywheel and Silicon Prairie
Dusty Davidson is the co-founder and CEO of Flywheel. Flywheel is a fast-growing WordPress hosting company, Yes, they’re in a crowded market, but Flywheel stands…
A Mountain of Gutenberg News!
Yes, WordPress is going to have a new editor called “Gutenberg”. Up until now, the Gutenberg developers made slow and steady progress. Every two weeks,…