How Do We Stop the Next OpenSSL Disaster?
Open Source hasn’t had good press in recent weeks. The OpenSSL Heartbleed bug led to many articles revealing how badly run OpenSSL was. One typical…
Custom Formatters for Easy Drupal Embeds
Many websites want to allow users to submit videos, audio files, documents and the like. However, if those files are stored on other sites, it…
Learn Hikashop to Build Joomla E-Commerce Sites
Today we launch the second and final part of our video training series on Hikashop. These additional videos cover launching and running your store. We’ve…
Build a New Drupal Homepage With Panels
Panels is one of the most popular modules amongst serious Drupal site-builders. Panels allows you to easily create custom layouts for your content and your…
Is a Website Using WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal?
The following tutorial will show you a quick way to check if a site is built with WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal. Using the technique, you…
Personalized Content Feeds in Drupal
One of our members wanted to allow users to create customized information feeds in Drupal. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to do that.…
Why is WordPress Easy? Can It Become Simpler?
A lot of people say that WordPress is easy to use. I hear that claim all the time, but rarely see anyone show evidence that…
Ripple: An Open Source Way to Send Money
We mainly focus on open source with this blog, but we’re fascinated by technology in general. I’ve been reading a lot about digital currencies lately…
Fullscreen Websites with jQuery.fullscreen
Many years ago, when flash websites were popular and no-one cared about SEO, websites often went fullscreen. A fullscreen website would hide all the browser…
Learn Hikashop for Joomla E-Commerce
We’ve recently launched a large e-commerce project for an OSTraining customer. They wanted a Joomla store that was powerful, flexible and easy-to-use. After evaluating the…
Why is My Database So Large?
One common question we hear from our members is this: “My hosting company tells me my database is too large. But, I’m not sure what’s…
Learn Drupal 7 Panels
Every Monday we release a new video class, and this week’s class is Drupal 7 Panels. Panels is a powerful module you can use to create…
Your Video Introduction to WordPress 3.9
WordPress 3.9 is due to be released in mid-April. Topher, our WordPress teacher, is here to give you your video introduction to 3.9. In the…
27 Funny, Imaginative and Odd Drupal Logos
Some organizations are very serious about their logos. They produce exhaustive guidelines on how their logo should and should not be used. The Drupal community…
How to Use Akeeba Backup for WordPress
The de facto standard for backing up a Joomla site is Akeeba Backup. The software is excellent, feature rich, and very reliable. The developer of…
Join Us in Texas for DrupalCon Austin
Are you looking for a good excuse to get out of the office, head somewhere interesting and learn some new skills? DrupalCon Austin is in…
Add Links to Fields in Views – Drupal 7
This blog post is the answer to a common request we get from people learning how to use Views. The question is: “How do I…
Learn the Drupal 7 Search API
Every Monday we release a new video class, and this week’s class is Drupal 7 Search API. Drupal’s built-in search module is a search engine…
Why WordPress for Developers? Watch the Webinar
Last week, we launched a new video class called Why WordPress? The Developer Perspective. We also held a webinar on the same topic. Our WordPress trainer,…
How Long Until Most WordPress Posts are from Mobile?
WPTavern is one of the oldest and best WordPress news sites. Jeff Chandler has been running the site for nearly 8 years now. I spoke…