The OSTraining Podcast #9: Aleksander Kuczek and Brad Morrison
In this week’s episode, I talk with Aleksander Kuczek and Brad Morrison about WordPress site maintenance. Alex runs a SaaS service (PerfectDashboard.com) and Brad runs…
How to Create a Custom jQuery Plugin
jQuery is, in my humble opinion, the best Javascript library. Much of jQuery’s popularity is due to the fact that it considerably reduces development time.…
Create a Simple Timeline with Views in Drupal
The “A Simple Timeline” module allows you to create a great looking, vertical timeline of Drupal entities. This timeline could be used to tell the…
How to Target Elements in CSS with Attributes
When working with CSS, designers usually target elements based on id or class. However you can target elements using more than just these two attributes.…
Create a Google Map with Location Markers in Drupal 8
The Geolocation Field Module allows us to store geographical locations (e.g. addresses) as value pairs (latitude, longitude). These values can be rendered in a map…
Better Category URLs in WordPress with Remove Category URL Plugin
By default, when the SEF URLs are enabled in WordPress, the category links include the word “category” just before the category slug. In this tutorial,…
The OSTraining Podcast #8: Andy Miller
In this week’s episode, I talk with Andy Miller. Andy Miller has a long and storied history as web developer and businessman. Andy started as…
Magento 2 Explained is Coming Soon
Do you need to build an eCommerce site with Magento? Today, we’re delighted to say that “Magento 2 Explained” is coming soon. This book will…
New Book: Multilingual Joomla Explained
Do you need to build a multilingual site with Joomla? Today, we’re delighted to launch a new book, “Multilingual Joomla Explained”. This book teaches everything…
New Class: The Beginners Guide to Building Websites
Are you absolutely new to building websites? Then this week’s new class is for you. “The Beginners Guide to Building Websites” will help you create your…
The OSTraining Podcast #7: Alan Hartless
In this week’s episode, I talk with Alan Hartless. Alan is the lead engineer at Mautic, a marketing automation platform that’s 100% open source. Alan…
How to Build Drupal 8 Slideshows
If you’re getting started with Drupal 8, there are some key features you’ll need to master. You’ll probably want to learn how to set-up calendars,…
Our Popular Class “Why Should You Use Joomla?” Is Now Free
We are happy to announce that “Why Should You Use Joomla?” is now a free class. These videos are ideal if you or your client…
The Beginners Guide to Drupal Distributions
One of the most common hurdles that Drupal beginners face is learning to navigate all the modules available on Drupal.org. With over 38,000 modules, choosing…
The OSTraining Podcast #6: Tessa Mero
In this week’s episode, I talk with Tessa Mero. Tessa used to work at OSTraining, and is responsible for some of the most popular posts…
New Class: The Drupal Paragraphs Module
Over the last few months we’ve worked with more and more Drupal 8 sites. Those projects all had one thing in common … they used…
Conditional Logic with Caldera Forms in WordPress
The general rule for building forms is that you should have as few fields as possible, as too many fields can lead to a drop…
Debugging Your Website with Chrome Developer Tools
If you’re using Chrome and want to debug your site’s design, this browser already comes with a great built-in feature called Developer Tools. In this…
New Class: How to Use LESS
CSS stylesheets can become hard to manage on large projects. It can become a headache to manage hundreds or thousands of styles. LESS is a…
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…