Introducing the Free Drupal 8 Site Building Class
Drupal 8 was the biggest launch in Drupal’s history. After 5 years of development, Drupal 8 arrived in late 2015. Has it been a success…
How to Display PDFs on a Drupal Site
An OSTraining member asked us about attaching PDFs to a Drupal site. It is possible to use the default File field and allow people to…
Half a Million Views of the Drupal 8 Beginner Class!
Drupal 8 is now eight months old. Has it been a success so far? Yes. Drupal 8 is running over 100,000 sites and is now…
How to Install Drupal VM on Windows
An OSTraining member asked how to use the Drupal VM environment on Windows. Drupal VM is a virtual machine that contains many convenient utilities for…
New Class: How to Use the WordPress REST API
If you are a WordPress developer, you need to learn about the WordPress REST API. This is the new feature that will define working with…
New and Updated Class: Joomla 3 Beginner
The very first class we ever put on OSTraining was a Joomla Beginner class in 2010. Now, several years later, we’re pleased to release the…
How to Create a Node Override in Drupal 8
For Drupal 7 users, many things have changed in Drupal 8, but many are reassuringly familiar. One great example is template overrides. The process for…
New Class: How to Use AngularJS
Our latest class, “How to Use AngularJS“, teaches you how to use AngularJS, the enormously popular Javascript toolset from Google. AngularJS is what HTML would have…
New Class: How to Use the Bootstrap Framework
This new class, “How to Use the Bootstrap Framework“, teaches you how to use the world’s most popular design framework. Bootstrap is an HTML, CSS…
New Class: How to Use the Twig Template Engine
This week, we’re happy to add a new and much-requested class to the OSTraining library, How to Use the Twig Template Engine. Twig is a…
Debug Your Designs on iOS Devices With BrowserStack
BrowserStack is a tool that we constantly rely on at OSTraining. It’s an online service that makes it easy to do cross-browser compatibility testing. Whenever we…
This is Bootstrap Week at OSTraining: Watch 2 Free Classes
We’ve just published a post explaining that “Bootstrap’s popularity grew 1,000% in 3 years“. It’s clear that Bootstrap is the most popular design framework in…
Bootstrap’s Popularity Grew 1,000% in 3 Years
Back in mid-2013, I wrote a post called, “The Bootstrap Boom is Just Getting Started“. Looking at the statistics, it was clear that Bootstrap was on…
Make a Drupal Menu Appear Only a Single Node
An OSTraining member asked how us how they could display a menu block on one single page. They wanted to have relevant links appear only…
Track Google Analytics Clicks and Downloads in Drupal
Over the last week, several people have asked us about tracking Google Analytics “events” on their Drupal site. “Events” describe anything from clicking on an…
Conditional Logic with Gravity Forms in WordPress
WordPress’ Gravity Forms plugin allows you to have certain forms appear, based on conditions being met. However, when a form is complex, it’s not always…
How to Uninstall a WordPress Theme
We always recommend uninstalling WordPress themes that you aren’t using. Themes can have security holes, and your site will be safer with fewer installed themes.…
Faster and Better OSTraining Support
Training videos are great. But, they are not enough. Videos can’t solve specific problems with your site. Videos can’t help you when an emergency strikes. Videos…
Drupal 8 and the EU Cookie Consent Law
One of our OSTraining members asked how to add a cookie notification message to their Drupal 8 site. We recommended the CookieConsent module which provides…
Using Google’s URL Shortener Tool
An OSTraining member asked how he could add a long external link to their site. Generally you want to keep URLs short so you can…