4 Useful Features of Discord for Businesses
Since the pandemic many businesses find themselves scrambling for video conferencing tools that will keep their teams connected and work flowing. Many schools and other…
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Discord – To Boost or Not?
Discord is freemium application available on pc, mac, and mobile devices, all you have to do to get started is download the application and create…
Discord for Business – What You Need to Know
In an online world cluttered with communication options like Zoom, GoTo Meeting, and Slack, Discord emerges from the gaming world as a possible awesome alternative…
Is it time to dump subscription software?
I’ve used Adobe products exclusively for years. They’re the industry standard after all. But what if you’re not part of the industry? For the casual…
Where Will the CMS World Be in 3 Years?
The OSTraining podcast has kicked off again for 2019. In the first episode of the year, we welcomed Josh Strebel from Pagely. Pagely is a hugely…
Best Multi-site Management Platforms for Your Agency
There are plenty of reasons why your team might be in a position to manage multiple websites concurrently. In some cases, you have a major…
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”…
Build Your Shopify Store in 1 Hour
Shopify is one of the most popular eCommerce platforms in the world. For under $30 per month, Shopify offers everything your store needs from products…
Your Plain English Guide to Gartner Magic Quadrants
A few weeks ago, WPEngine purchased StudioPress. This was a major move in the WordPress space. This also seemed like a simple move. One of…
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…
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,…
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…
How OSpam-a-not Protects Your Joomla Forms From Spambots
In 2014 here at ostraining.com, we decided to stop the flood of spambots sending spam via forms on our site. We tried one particular unobtrusive…
10 Options for Multi-Vendor Shopping Carts
Multi-vendor e-commerce sites are really popular. Sites such as eBay, Etsy and AliBaba have enormous reach and support with 100,000’s of sellers on just one…
New French Law May Cause Havoc With ECommerce Platforms
A new law in France is threatening to cause major headaches for e-commerce platforms. First off, thanks to Olivier Karfis for the heads up on…
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…
High Signal, Low Noise News for Your Favorite Software
All of us are busy. All of us have over-flowing email inboxes. It can be difficult to find sources of news that are high on…
Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Selling Subscriptions
We first launched a website selling subscriptions in 2007. In the five years since then, we’ve sold subscriptions to tens of thousands of people. During…
Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Video Hosting
One of the features that our members most often want is to host videos on their site. As it happens, we’ve learned a little about…