We’re Ending Our Technical Support Offerings
As the years go by, businesses need to adapt to a changing market. Customers want different things in 2018 than they did a few years…
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 #16: Liz Mays and Pressbooks
Sometimes I invite people on the podcast because we’ve been friends for years. Other times, I invite people because we love their products. Pressbooks falls…
New Video Class: How to Use PHP References
This week’s new class continues to build out the library of PHP lessons that’s available to OSTraining members. “How to Use PHP References” is an…
The OSTraining Podcast #15: Rod Martin, How to Create Online Video Tutorials
Rod is responsible for many of the most popular videos in OSTraining history, including the Drupal 8 class that has around 2 million views. In…
The Beta Version of WordPress Explained is Here
Do you need to build a WordPress site? The “WordPress Explained” book is coming to your rescue. Today, a beta version of this book is…
The OSTraining Podcast #14: Everything You Need to Know About Drupal 8
Consider this episode to be the busy person’s guide to Drupal 8. If you haven’t had time to keep up with what’s new in the…
The WooCommerce Explained Book, With Patrick Rauland
Do you need to build a WooCommerce site? If you can wait a few weeks, the “WooCommerce Explained” book is coming to your rescue. This…
New Video Class: Building Joomla Extensions With Component Creator
In the other classes in the “Joomla 3 Development” pathway, we showed you how to code your own extensions. In this week’s class, “Building Joomla…
The OSTraining Podcast #13: Everything You Need to Know About Magento
Magento is one of the two most popular e-commerce platforms in the world. In this episode, we talk with Ray Bogman, who’s been working with…
What Does Delta Mean in Drupal?
When you are adding Views, you may have seen an extra option called “Delta”. Several students have asked us about the purpose of this field,…
The OSTraining Podcast #12: Brian Hogg and Selling WordPress Plugins
In this week’s episode, I talk with Brian Hogg. Brian is a WordPress developer who writes plugins, but also creates super-helpful content for other developers.…
The OSTraining Podcast #11: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wix?
Wix, Weebly, Squarespace and other hosted services are an increasingly big threat to open source platforms. We discuss whether open source projects should be nervous.…
New Class: Introduction to PHP, Part 2
This week’s new class continues to build out the library of PHP lessons that’s available to OSTraining members. “Introduction to PHP, Part 2” follows directly…
The OSTraining Podcast #10: Mendel Kurland and Camp Press
In this week’s episode, I talk with Mendel Kurland. If you’ve been to a WordCamp over the last few years, there’s a good chance you’ve…
The WordPress Explained Book is Coming Soon
Do you need to build a WordPress site? If you can wait a few weeks, the “WordPress Explained” book is coming to your rescue. This…
Introducing PublishPress: WordPress for Teams
PublishPress is a really useful WordPress plugin that our team have been working on as a side project. The plugin is designed for any WordPress site…
Base, Small, Thumbnail and Swatch Images in Magento
If you add products to your Magento store, multiple versions of your image are created automatically. When you’re editing your product, you’ll see four different…
Free Tickets for the Merge Show in Orlando
Lots of conferences follow a very standard format that you’ve seen many times before. That is absolutely not true of the Merge Show in Orlando,…
And Then Everyone Started Moving to React …
Throughout 2017, the WordPress team has been building key new features using React, a Javascript framework developed by Facebook. However, React has suffered from licensing…
What New Features Are Available in Drupal 8.4?
Every six months, the Drupal team get to release new features. This is a major change in Drupal 8. Whereas Drupal 7 never had any…