Template Monster Giveaway: Win Joomla, WordPress and Drupal Themes
Welcome to a really cool giveaway offer from OSTraining and TemplateMonster. If you need a new design for your site, and you wouldn’t mind getting…
New Video Class: Introduction to Audacity
This week, we’re really proud to introduce our members to a high-quality open source product. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder.…
Easily Create Tables in WordPress with TablePress
Creating tables, especially ones that look nice, can be difficult for beginners. This tutorial will show you how to easily create tables in WordPress. Plus,…
5 Tips to Get Great Technical Support
Every week we answer 100’s of support forum topics from developers and designers. Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that some users are excellent…
Allow Users to Delete Their Drupal Accounts
It’s good practice to allow users to leave your site completely. That means users should be able to delete their account entirely, together with all…
New Video Class: Build a WordPress Bed and Breakfast Site
In this class, Topher builds a WordPress site that allows you to rent just about anything, but focusing on a Bed and Breakfast. Using the…
New Video Class: WordPress Quick Post Types and Metaboxes
In this short class, Topher takes an intermediate-level approach to quickly creating custom post types and meta boxes. First, using a plugin called GenerateWP, you’ll…
Easily Apply Drupal Patches with Patch Manager
Have you ever updated your Drupal site only to suddenly have errors? If you use Drupal regularly, this will happen to you at some point.…
How to Add a Slider Search to Drupal
One of our customers was setting up a Drupal Commerce site and wanted to add a slider search. Here’s an example of a slider search…
How to Fix a 500 Internal Server Error
At OSTraining, we get many questions about internal server errors. This article will cover what an internal server error is and how to resolve it.…
Responsive Design with CSS Viewport Units
Responsive design makes it possible to adapt a website to any screen. In responsive design, the size of a site’s elements change based on the…
There’s an Updated Drupal Logo for Drupal 8
Drupal 8 will ship with a new version of the Drupal logo, known as the Druplicon. It’s not the biggest news in the world, but…
OSToolbar for WordPress: Give Tutorial Videos to Your Clients
This week we’ve rolled out an update for the OSToolbar for WordPress. If you haven’t used it, OSToolbar allows you to provide our training videos…
Traffic from India is Growing at a Rapid Speed
Several times every year, I wake up, check our traffic stats and think, “YIKES!!” I’m looking a drop of 40% to 50% in our overnight…
Microweber, a New Laravel-based CMS
It’s a brave team that launches a new CMS into such crowded and established marketplace. Boris Sokolov and his team are doing exactly that with…
New Video Class: Drupal Contextual Views
In this advanced views class, Robert explores contextual filters. Contextual filters work similarly to regular filters, but there is one important difference. Instead of setting…
Paid Memberships Pro for WordPress Membership Sites
I’ve been asked to give a talk about building membership sites with WordPress. Membership sites is a topic I could talk on for hours, but…
Cameroon Doody of GetBellhops.com and Chattanooga
Welcome to the “New Tech Cities” series at OSTraining. In this series we’re talking about cities that were rundown but are re-inventing themselves, as using…
New Video Class: Drupal Advanced Rules
The Rules module adds amazing functionality to a Drupal site. A site builder can set up almost limitless “if this, then that” scenarios to manage…
Automattic Buys WooCommerce for Over $30 Million
Wow. There was huge news this week that impacted both WordPress and e-commerce in general. Automattic (the parent company of WordPress.com) purchased WooCommerce for over…