8 Things to Know About the Drupal Security Issue
By now you’ve probably heard about the extremely serious Drupal security issue from mid-October. The Drupal security team issued a new warning two weeks later…
See You at the Joomla World Conference?
The Joomla team are doing something really different with this year’s Joomla World Conference. Instead of being stuck in a cavernous venue with people spread…
Auto-Update or Die
One of the really interesting and scary things about this month’s Drupal issue is how fast the hackers moved. Hackers moved faster than the vast…
How to Check Your Drupal Site Security
If you weren’t able to update your Drupal site within a few hours on October 15th, you may be worried about your site. Even under…
Node Gallery: The Easiest Drupal Photo Gallery
We have several different Drupal photo gallery tutorials on this blog. The most popular is Views Photo Galleries for Drupal 7, followed closely by an…
Re-name Your WordPress Login Area
One of the most common ways that people attack WordPress sites is via the wp-login.php file. Hackers try a “brute force attack” where they simply…
Two Free Tickets for DrupalCamp Ohio
Rod Martin, our Director of Training, is going back to DrupalCamp Ohio and he’d love to meet you there. DrupalCamp Ohio is being held again…
New Video Class: SEBLOD for Joomla
In this week’s new Joomla class, James Morrell shows you how to build a restaurant website using SEBLOD, a content construction kit (CCK) for Joomla!.…
New Video Class: Why Drupal?
In this week’s new Drupal class, Rod Martin helps you consider if Drupal is right for your next web project. If you’re new to Drupal,…
All OSTraining Extensions are Moving to Alledia.com
We have some news today about all the Joomla extensions currently hosted on OSTraining. We’re moving almost all our extensions from ostraining.com to Alledia.com. Why…
Drupal 7.32 is an Absolutely Necessary Update
We’re accustomed to the Drupal security team releasing security fixes. Fortunately, most of the fixes were relatively minor. They either impacted a small group of…
Teaching Joomla at Portland Community College
On this blog we interview people who are helping open source make inroads at universities. We’ve spoken with teachers of open source at Harvard, Emory,…
New Video Class: Build a Drupal Site
One of the most difficult things for Drupal beginners is understanding how the many pieces fit together. How do you make sense of Views, Panels,…
The Payment Module: A Simpler Alternative to Drupal Commerce
Here at OSTraining we’ve given significant coverage to Drupal Commerce. You can watch a video class with nearly 30 lessons and download a book, “Building…
New Video Class: Pods Framework for WordPress
WordPress is all about creating content. WordPress arrives with Posts and Pages, which you can organize using Categories and Tags. But, what if you need…
New Video Class: Why Joomla!?
In this week’s new Joomla class, Rod Martin helps you consider if Joomla! is right for your next web project. If you’re new to Joomla,…
6 Modules to Avoid Before Drupal 8 Arrives
Over the last few months, Dave Reid, one of the most active Drupal developers, has been giving a presentation called “Future-proof your Drupal 7 site”.…
How Many Sites Use Plain Text Passwords?
In the last couple of years, at least two popular web design sites have been hacked and had customer data stolen. In 2014 it was…
New Video Class: Drupal Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization for Drupal sites is not an easy task. To fully optimize a site, you need to install and configure several key modules.…
New Video Class: Simple WordPress Payments
We have video classes on some of the most powerful WordPress shopping carts including WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads. However, sometimes you just want to…