New Class: Develop WordPress Themes, Part 1
Do you want to design WordPress themes? This class is the perfect place to start. Topher uses Underscores, a very popular starter theme, to introduce…
How Did We Do? Revisiting Our CMS Predictions for 2015
Back at the beginning of 2015 we made 10 predictions for the year ahead. We said that the last few years had been quiet in…
Automatic Pop-ups with jQuery bPopup Plugin
One of our users asked for a way to open a modal pop-up automatically when a page loads. In this tutorial, I’m going to show…
Take MotoCMS for a Test Drive With This Giveaway
With MotoCMS you don’t have to be a pro developer or hire an army of professionals to produce your own stylish website. MotoCMS is a…
New Video Class: Drupal 8 Beginner
This week’s new video class is “Drupal 8 Beginner“. This class teaches you all of the essential concepts and knowledge you need to get started…
Add reCaptcha to Contact Form 7 in WordPress
Google has an improved, user-friendly Captcha system. Contact Form 7 is the most popular contact form plugin for WordPress. By combining the two, you can…
The Beginners Guide to Font Awesome
Font Awesome is the most popular way to add font icons to your website. Font Awesome icons are created using scalable vectors, so you can…
Parties and Events at WordCamp US in Philadelphia
WordCamp US is coming up soon in Philadelphia and it’s going to be a special event. WordCamp US is the first time that the WordPress community…
Put Drupal Sites in Maintenance Mode Manually
Drupal allows to set a website offline with a few clicks via the admin interfacte. However, we’ve seen situations where the admin interface becomes unavailable,…
Inline Editing in Drupal 8 (Video tutorial)
Drupal 8 just launched and we’re starting to release videos from the Drupal 8 Beginner class. In this video, Rod will show you how to…
How to Exclude your Own Visits from Google Analytics
One of our users asked for a way to exclude the visits that his employees make to his website from Google Analytics. In this tutorial,…
Firefox error: OCSP Stapling Failing Intermittently
For a couple of weeks, we had wrestled with a sec_error_ocsp_unauthorized_request error on our site in Firefox. The error only appeared intermittently and for a…
The Drupal 8 Beginner Class is Here and is Free
Congratulations to the Drupal community. Today, they released Drupal 8! It has been an epic journey to get here. Back in March 2011, we sat…
Webinar with ManageWP: Control Many WordPress Sites
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…
How to Install Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is here and it promises to be the best version of Drupal yet. In these two videos, Rod will show you how to…
How to Remove Unused Drupal Modules
Over the last few years we’ve had a wide variety of questions about removing Drupal modules, including these: Do I need to remove modules via…
Create a Magnifying Glass Effect with OKZoom jQuery Plugin
Would you like to allow your users to use a “magnifying glass” to zoom in and see your site’s images in detail? A magniying glass…
New Video Class: Managing Multiple WordPress Sites With ManageWP
This week’s new video class is “Managing Multiple WordPress Sites With ManageWP“. Managing multiple WordPress sites can be a challenge. There are always updates, comments…
Change Drupal’s File Permissions for sites/default and settings.php
If you login to a new Drupal site and check your Status report screen, you may see this warning: The directory sites/default is not protected…
How to Embed Tweets in WordPress
WordPress makes super easy to embed a tweet in your website thanks to the oEmbed protocol. In this post, we’ll show you how to embed…