The Magento 2 Explained Book is Here
Do you need to build an eCommerce site with Magento? Today, we’re delighted to say that the “Magento 2 Explained” book is here. This step-by-step…
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 #25: Beka Rice on eCommerce and the GDPR
Some people have scanned a few blog posts about the GDPR. Very few people have researched it deeply and really know what they’re talking about.…
The OSTraining Podcast #24: Jerry Eadeh on the Past and Future of Magento
When we scheduled this podcast, I planned to talk about the history of Magento. Jerry works for Nexcess, a hosting company that is famous for…
The OSTraining Podcast #23: Jen Kramer, Harvard, and Bootstrap 4
Jen Kramer describes herself as a “Web Design Teacher” but that barely scratches the surface of what she does. She’s a speaker, a teacher, a…
The OSTraining Podcast #22: Andrew Embler and Concrete5
Andrew is the founder and CTO of Concrete5, an open source CMS that’s comparable to WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and others. Concrete5 has been around for…
Open a WordPress Form by Clicking on a Menu Link
Some websites make it really hard to contact them. The “Contact Us” page is hidden in the footer. The social media icons, if there any,…
How are Open Source Projects Complying With the GDPR Law?
We’ve just seen the launch of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) law in Europe. If you need some general background on the GDPR itself,…
New Class: Build a Shopify Site in 1 Hour
If you want to set up an online store, then Shopify is a great solution. It’s one of the most popular eCommerce platforms in the…
Adobe Are the New Owners of Magento
Adobe has just purchased Magento for $1.68 billion. This deal is not a big surprise. People were predicting it a couple years ago, when Magento started…
What are Website Internationalization and Localization?
When you build multilingual websites you will probably come across two keywords, “Internationalization” and “Localization”. These are complicated words for fairly straightforward ideas. In this…
How to Find and Translate WordPress Plugins
If you’re building a multilingual WordPress site, there are four things you need to find translations for: The WordPress core Your content Your theme Your…
Easy Updates Should be Drupal’s Top Priority
Drupal is having another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time. Two new security issues, named “Drupalgeddon 2” and “Drupalgeddon 3“, have resulted in widespread problems.…
Updated Class: How to Use WooCommerce
WooCommerce is probably your best choice for eCommerce in WordPress. WooCommerce is hugely popular and now powers over 40% of all online stores. It is…
Top Reasons Why You Should Be Using Magento
Magento is an open source ecommerce platform designed and used by many companies to strengthen their brands. Today it is one of the most trusted…
How to Remove the Footer Links from Magento 2
Great software development can turn difficult problems into easy tasks. But sometimes, the opposite happens and apparently easy problems become difficult tasks. Magento makes some…
New Class: How to Build Multilingual WordPress Websites
This week’s new class is a guide to building WordPress sites in multiple languages. “How to Build Multilingual WordPress Websites” will help you create a…
Show Your WordPress Contact Form In a Floating Tab
Many WordPress contact forms allow you to embed the form into a post or a page. The Gator Forms plugin is a little different. It…
How to Get Started With WooCommerce Theming
WooCommerce Explained is the best-selling book on WooCommerce. In this exclusive tutorial, taken from WooCommerce Explained, we’re going to show you some WooCommerce theming and…
How to Get Started With WooCommerce Programming
WooCommerce Explained is the best-selling book on WooCommerce. Throughout that book, we mostly avoided using any code. We believe that anyone is able to build…
5 Software Platforms You Didn’t Know OSTraining Covered
Much of our time and effort at OSTraining goes towards covering the most high-profile platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Magento. But there are…