How to Connect to a Web Server Over SSH with Private/Public Keys Using PuTTY on Windows
Knowing how to connect to your website over SSH authenticating with Public/Private Key pairing is a great skill. Authenticating and working on your website over…
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,…
Using the Focal Point Module for Images in Drupal 8
You most likely created image styles with Drupal’s “Scale and crop” image effect. This style allows you to display large images on a smaller scale…
Adding a MailChimp Newsletter to Your Drupal Site
Finding easy to use modules for Drupal 8 is not always easy. Often they haven’t been migrated from Drupal 7. Or they are still in…
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…
Making Sure Your WordPress Site Complies with Google’s Security Guidelines
Way back in 2014 Google made a push towards the use of HTTPS and SSL. Since then we all know that we need to check…
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…
How to Create Fancy Pagers in your Drupal Views with Pagerer
The Pagerer module provides additional preset styles for Drupal standard pages and Views. It is a very simple module with styling options for everyone. In…
Should I Use Drupal 7 or Drupal 8?
Over the last 15 years, Drupal has earned a reputation for being the most powerful open source content management system. Yes, Drupal may be harder…
Create a One Page Drupal Site with Views Infinite Scroll Module
You most likely already navigated across some sites, blogs or galleries, that present the content in an infinite scroll mode. Such scrolling can easily be…
New Class: How to Build Magento Themes
This week’s new class is a complete beginners guide to Magento theming. “How to Build Magento Themes” will help you create your very first Magento theme.…