ServerPilot: A Control Panel for PHP Sites in the Cloud
If you build websites, you’re familiar with hosting control panels such as cPanel, Plesk and others. These control panels allow you to create sub domains,…
Join DrupalCon Amsterdam From Your Desk
DrupalCon Amsterdam takes place this week. Nearly 2000 people are going to be at the venue itself, but even more will join remotely. If you’re…
Ghost 0.5.2 Adds Meta Data, Cover Images and More
The development on Ghost is moving faster than ever. Ghost version 0.5.2 was released on September 25th. This release is an important milestone as it…
Video Class Update: Introduction to HTML
One of the first classes ever created at OSTraining has been completely overhauled! Our Introduction to HTML class has been significantly updated and expanded. There…
Simple Renew: the New Joomla Subscription Extension
Here at OSTraining, we’ve made a lot of mistakes in building this site. It’s been really hard to run a successful subscription site. A couple…
Use the Drupal ShareThis Module
Last year, we wrote about 4 social sharing modules for Drupal: Service Links, Social Share, AddThis, AddToAny. ShareThis is another useful option for adding Facebook,…
Manage Amazon and Digital Ocean Servers with Cloudways
Unmanaged virtual private servers such as those offered by Amazon and DigitalOcean offer you complete control at a lower cost. However, without the technical skills…
We’re Hiring Video Trainers
Do you enjoy teaching web design? Do you have between 10 and 40 hours per month? If so, you should consider working with us. We’re…
Day 1 Review of Discourse
Discourse is new open-source discussion software. Version 1.0 of Discourse launched at the end of August. Within days, both the SitePoint and Twitter developer forums…
Teaching Drupal to College Students
On this blog we’ve interviewed with people who are helping open source make inroads at universities. We’ve spoken with teachers of open source at Harvard,…
WordPress Caching with WP Rocket
WordPress has made it much easier to own and host your own website. However, while choosing a great looking theme and adding a slider might…
Why SitePoint Forums Moved to Discourse
This week we reviewed Discourse, the new open source forum software. At the same time as that version 1.0 of Discourse was released, I saw…
Fix a Broken Drupal Database Table
One OSTraining member told us that they had a database error on their site. Here’s the error that was showing: PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or…
New Video Class: Quick Tabs for Drupal
In this week’s new Drupal class, Brian introduces you to the Quick Tabs module for Drupal. The Quick Tabs module allows you to create blocks…
Could My WordPress Site be Hacked via TimThumb?
TimThumb is a wonderful idea. TimThumb is a script that allows your site to grab an image and resize or reshape it automatically. TimThumb will…
What Modules is a Drupal Site Using?
Last year we wrote a blog post called, “5 Ways to Tell if a Site is Built in Drupal“ That helped answer one of the…
New Video Class: Joomla 3 SEO
This week’s new class, by Steve Burge, introduces you to Joomla search engine optimization. Getting your Joomla! site indexed and ranked by Google (and other…
The Greatest Success of the Open Source Movement
I was watching British TV last week, and a newsreader asked if a politician should “step up to the plate”. It’s strange for a BBC…
How to Use Drupal as a Static Site
Static websites, with no database, used to be enormously popular in the 1990’s. They are slowly becoming more popular again in the 2010’s. Some developers…
Stop MailChimp Forms Breaking Your SSL
We recently re-designed this site, and when we did we also decided to run the site entirely over SSL. Actually moving our site to SSL…