Using WordPress as a Static Website
We teach many different types of software. No matter what we teach, students often arrive with ideas about the sofware. Our job is to convince…
Creating Printer-Friendly Versions of WordPress Posts and Pages
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to place Print This Post buttons into WordPress posts and pages. The main reason you’d want to do this…
5 Reasons Not to Require Composer in Your CMS
Some people love Composer. They use it to build their PHP projects and manage all the external libraries and dependencies. They love it so much…
New Class: Drupal 8 Composer and Configuration Management
Drupal development is changing fast, and with Drupal 8 there are lots of new tools to explore. This week’s new class is called “Drupal 8…
How to Block Spam Comments in WordPress with Akismet
Have you heard people complain that Windows computers get more viruses than Apple computers? There are many reasons for that. One of the most common…
How to Add a Sitemap to Your WordPress Site
Every website needs a sitemap, but it might not be for the reasons you expect. Sitemaps do not improve your ranking in search engines. However,…
Dark Sidebar Menus with White Icons and Text
This week a friend commented to me that too many user interfaces look like WordPress. That’s crazy talk, I thought, until I started Googling around.…
How to Migrate Joomla to WordPress
This tutorial will show you how to migrate a Joomla site to WordPress. We’re going to do this with an out-of-the-box Joomla site with demo…
What Are Experimental Modules in Drupal?
Drupal 8 introduced an interesting new approach called “experimental modules”. These experimental modules are included in the Drupal core, and have inspired several questions from…
New Class: How to Develop WordPress Plugins
This week’s new class is “How to Develop WordPress Plugins“. The class a step-by-step guide to building your first WordPress plugin. We’ve released the first…
Add Parallax Blocks to Drupal 8 With ScrollMagic
In this tutorial, I will explain how to use custom block types to create a Parallax effect in your Drupal 8 subtheme. To follow along…
How to Create a Drupal 8 Bootstrap Subtheme
Bootstrap is an incredibly popular option for creating Drupal themes. Using the Bootstrap CDN allows you to quickly and flexibly add custom code that overrides…
Drupal 8’s Field Layout is an Alternative to Display Suite
In Drupal 7 to create custom displays, you would probably use Display Suite. Drupal 8 just added a potential alternative to the Display Suite in…
How to Create the Standard Bootstrap Navbar and Button for Mobile Devices
Bootstrap is an HTML, CSS and JavaScript framework. Using it, you can easily build mobile-first responsive websites. It offers you plenty of pre-set CSS styling…
How to Create Multiple Responsive Columns with Bootstrap 3
Would you like to improve your website responsiveness with Bootstrap? The most important aspect of Bootstrap is its 12-column mobile first grid system. This is…
After Years of Decline, Magento is Spending and Growing
A couple of years ago, Magento appeared to be a dying platform lost inside eBay’s corporate ownership. The software was being poorly developed, and their…
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…
DrupalCon Baltimore Will Be Popular, Controversial, and Worth Attending
Yes, this is a bumpy time for Drupal. The Drupal controversy continues to rumble on with plenty community posts, and articles in major publications like Inc and…
Introduction to Bootstrap for Absolute Beginners
Bootstrap is the best HTML, CSS and JavaScript framework for any web developer. It will help you quickly produce responsive, clean looking websites. It does this simply…
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…