MP6: The Future of the WordPress Admin
WordPress celebrated its 10th birthday this week, and it is still changing and evolving. In a previous blog post, we speculated on what WordPress might…
Manage Drupal Content Layout with Panelizer
By default, the fields in a content type are displayed from vertically, one field after another. For simple content types, this might not be a…
Michael Lopp’s Keynote from DrupalCon Portland
Steve and I are sitting in the ballroom at the Oregon Convention Center enjoying the Thursday morning keynote: The Engineer, the Designer and the Dictator…
Drupal 7 Explained Launches at DrupalCon
We’re delighted to launch Drupal 7 Explained, a fun and clear introduction to Drupal. The attendees at our DrupalCon class got the very first copies. There’s…
Dries’ Keynote at DrupalCon Portland
As per DrupalCon tradition, Dries gave the opening keynote address at DrupalCon Portland. There were no major announcements in this keynote, although Dries did announce…
Keynote by Karen McGrane at DrupalCon Portland
It’s day three for Steve and I at DrupalCon Portland (we taught the Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Drupal on Monday). This morning’s keynote is by…
Drupal 8 WYSIWYG Editor at DrupalCon Portland
When Drupal 8 launches sometime in early 2014, one of the many new features built into the core will be a WYSIWYG editor. In our…
Our New WordPress Coding Class is Live
Here at OSTraining, we split our time between online and live training. Today we merge the two types of training in a new course called “WordPress…
A Beginners Guide to Drupal Overrides
The problem with many software applications is you can’t make them your own. With Drupal, however, you have the option to override how Drupal does…
Even experts want simpler web software
About a week ago, my Twitter stream was overtaken by just one topic. I follow people who work with many different types of web software.…
The ins and outs of accessible web design
Accessible websites allow users with disabilities to navigate the web and access information. A disabled user may be blind, have a motor disability, dyslexia, or…
The quickest, easiest way to test Drupal modules
A time consuming task for all software users is testing. It takes time to find all the download links, to set up a test environment…
All in One SEO Pack video tutorials
If you exclude the core plugins, All in One SEO Pack is the most popular WordPress plugin of all time, having been downloaded over 65 million…
Move a Drupal Site to a New Folder
Moving a Drupal site to a new location on your server is surprisingly easy. There is a simple 3 step process to move a Drupal…
The Absolute Beginners Guide to LESS
CSS is a simple language. It allows us to style properties of HTML elements using selectors. This makes it easy for beginners to get started…
How I Managed to Cut Our Traffic by 20%
I messed up pretty badly last week. I made a change to our site, and within 48 hours our traffic was down by around 20%.…
How to Use Drupal’s Search Module
A lot of things are simple in Drupal … once you know how. The Search module is a perfect example of something that is initially…
Our Drupal Simplytest.me Class is Live
We’re delighted to launch our latest class, “Simplytest.me“. With Simplytest.me there is no need to install an entire site just to test a new module…
Rod Martin to Keynote at J and Beyond 2013
J and Beyond, an International Joomla! Conference, is back for a fourth year. From May 31st to June 2nd, Joomla! developers and site builders from…
Dropplets: Probably the Simplest Blog in the World
Websites used to be really simple. No databases. No configuration. No complex deployment systems. Perhaps until around the year 2000, most websites didn’t use a…