Webinar: 10 Things Site Builders Need to Know Before Leaping to Drupal 8
Everyone is excited for the launch of Drupal 8. Come and join us and Acquia on August 20th for a fast-paced Drupal 8 webinar. Rod…
Use JetPack Statistics in Your WordPress Dashboard
JetPack is an official plugin from Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com. JetPack offers tons of useful features, from security protection and comments to social sharing…
WordPress 4.3: The Customizer Release
The official WordPress 4.3 is still a month away, but this release has already been far more high-profile that most. Since the new admin design…
Social Buttons in WordPress with AddThis Sharing Buttons
Adding social sharing buttons to your WordPress site is very easy with the AddThis Sharing Buttons plugin. It takes only a minute to install and…
Use the Masquerade Module to Test Drupal Roles
If you have a large Drupal site, you may have a large number of roles and users. How do you know if a role is…
Can’t Find the “Install new module” Link in Drupal?
When developers install Drupal modules, they rely on Drush or version control to manage their work. However, most ordinary Drupal users do everything through the…
New Video Class: phpMyAdmin
Here at OSTraining, we teach Drupal, Joomla, WordPress and touch on other software such as Magento. All of these platforms use MySQL as their default…
Easily Add Google Fonts to WordPress
Google Fonts is a wonderful tool to help you customize your site. You can choose from about 700 different fonts to improve the design of…
Connect Drupal and Views to External Databases
We often get asked whether Drupal can show information from other websites. In particular, people want to pull information and display it through Views. The…
Use GenerateWP to Create Custom WordPress Code
GenerateWP.com is a wonderful tool for WordPress developers. GenerateWP can automatically create code for your WordPress project. You can use GenerateWP to build post types,…
Use Rules to Build Drupal Membership Sites
We often have OSTraining members who want to build membership sites in Drupal. There are a variety of ways in which you can control access…
4 Free Online Tools for Web Designers
There’s a trend in software towards expensive online subscriptions, but there are still a lot of great free services out there. Every day, I relay…
You Can Now Get Live Chat Support at OSTraining
Starting today, Pro members can live chat one-on-one with the OSTraining team. What’s not to love about live chat? If you have a WordPress, Drupal…
New Video Class: Build a Drupal Magazine Site
Managing content is one of Drupal’s greatest strengths, so in this week’s new class we decided to build a site that focuses very heavily on…
OSTraining Will Release 200 Drupal 8 Videos for Free
Yes, you read that right: we’re going to release 200 free Drupal 8 videos. We want Drupal 8 to be a success. One way we…
Drupal: What If Your Clean URL Test Fails?
By default, Drupal 7 creates URLs that look like this, “/?q=node/4”. This type of URL can be hard to read, hard to remember and may…
Using Administration Menu and Shortcuts in Drupal
An OSTraining member recently took our recommendation and installed the Administration Menu module, which makes it much easier to navigate through your Drupal site. However,…
The Redirection Plugin Solves WordPress 301 and 404 Errors
Are you moving your WordPress site to a new URL or directory? Are you updating some of your site’s permalinks? If so, you need the…
How Devesh Sharma Launched His WordPress Career at 15
When I was 15 the internet didn’t exist as far as ordinary members of the public were concerned. Devesh Sharma, on the other hand, was…
The Beginner’s Guide to Drupal Security Releases
There was a Drupal security release this week. This release managed to confuse several of our users, because it wasn’t clear if they should update…