Improve the WordPress Admin Menu with the Hierarchy Plugin
In this post, I’ll share with you how the Hierarchy plugin can improve the organization of your WordPress dashboard. With it, you can merge the…
Add External Featured Images to WordPress Posts
WordPress allows us to upload a featured image to posts. By default, these featured images must be hosted on your site’s server. However, what happens…
New Video Classes: Drupal 8 Backups and Installs
Last week, we published our roadmap for Drupal 8 classes. This week, we completed two more items on that roadmap with the release of “Backing…
Add Custom CSS to Your Drupal 7 Site
One of the common requests in our support chat and forum involves adding custom CSS to a site. Normally the solution is to add the…
How to Create a Calendar in Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is still a very new system and many contributed modules are just starting to catch up. However, there are some features already available…
Use Google Trends to Find Keywords for Your Content
If you’re trying to optimize your site to meet the needs of potential visitors, then Google Trends is a very useful tool. If you’re going…
An Update on Drupal 8 Classes at OSTraining
Just over 1 month ago, on November 19th, the Drupal community released Drupal 8. However, the practical kick-off for Drupal 8 was two weeks earlier…
Show a WordPress Menu Item Only When Logged In
One of our OSTraining members was wondering how to set up a WordPress menu item so that only subscribers could view it. He wasn’t sure…
How to Enable and Disable the Shortcut Menu in Drupal 7
One of our users wanted to re-enable the Shortcut menu in his Drupal 7 site, after it had become disabled. In this short tutorial, I’m…
Insert Font Awesome Icons in WordPress Posts and Pages
One of our users asked for a way to insert an icon in WordPress. AGP Font Awesome Collection plugin makes this process easy by integrating…
MySQL Explained: Paperback and Kindle Versions Available
Do you use Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, Magento or other PHP software? If you answered “yes”, then you use MySQL. MySQL is the world’s most popular…
Create Vine Embeds that are Responsive and have a Square Aspect Ratio
Vines are funny, short videos that many people want to share on the site. To embed a Vine in your site you need the HTML…
New Video Class: Drupal 8 Site Building
This week’s new video class is “Drupal 8 Site Building“. This class follows on from last week’s Drupal 8 Beginner Class. If you watched the…
WordPress 4.4, Responsive Images and scrset
WordPress 4.4 shipped this week with a really interesting approach to responsive images. Joe McGill, who led the project, has an overview of the changes:…
Watch ManageWP Talk About Their WordPress Tools and New Orion Project
Here at OSTraining, we’re enthusiastic users of ManageWP. We have an in-depth video class on using ManageWP and use the service to maintain our own…
Turn Off Comments in WordPress with Disable Comments Plugin
One of our users asked for a quick way to disable comments globally in WordPress. By using the Disable Comments plugin, it’s easy to solve…
How to Create Footnotes in Drupal
If you’re using Drupal for an academic site, you may want to use footnotes in your content. There is a Drupal module that makes this…
A Video Introduction to BuddyPress Groups
BuddyPress is the social networking plugin for WordPress. You can create public, private or hidden (invite-only) groups. A BuddyPress group is very similar to a…
Custom Permalinks for WordPress Category and Tag Pages
By default, WordPress includes the words category and tag as the basis for the URLs of important pages. For example: mysite.com/category/something – for a category page. mysite.com/tag/something…
What are Loops in Drupal Rules?
Loops are potentially confusing, but they are a very useful feature in Drupal’s Rules module. Essentially a loop allows you to run an action over…