BleacherReport.com and Building a $175 Million Business on Open Source
This month BleacherReport.com became only the second blog to ever sell for over $100 million. Bleacher Report’s slogan is “The Open Source Sports Network”. The…
NextGEN Gallery – The Most Popular WordPress Photo Plugin
NextGEN Gallery is the most popular photo gallery plugin for WordPress, and with over 5 million downloads it is one of the most popular WordPress…
A First Look at Spark Usability Improvements in Drupal
Over the last few months some of the most talented people in Drupal have been working on usability improvements. Their project is called Spark. Initially…
Classroom Ticket Improvements on OSTraining
We’re pleased to say that buying classroom tickets from OSTraining is now a better experience. Over the last two weeks we’ve rolled out a new…
3 Options for WordPress Paid Membership Plugins
If you want to build a paid membership site, then WordPress is a great option for you. There are many paid membership plugins for WordPress…
Drupal Podcasting Class is Now Live
We’re delighted to release our new class on podcasting with Drupal 7. This class is part of our partnership with Brian from Modules Unraveled. Brian…
Free Tickets to Events We’re Sponsoring
Over the next three months, we’re sponsoring Joomla, Drupal and WordPress events all around the world. Many of the events give tickets to sponsors. However,…
Group Registrations Are Now Available
Today we’re adding group registrations to ostraining.com. Group registrations is a new feature that allows you to register and pay for other people. Who would…
Drupal 7.15 Has Been Released
Drupal 7.15 was released this week. Drupal 7.14 came out in early May, so 7.15 is essentially a series of bug fixes that have been…
400 Joomla and Drupal Classes
Today is a day of celebration for OSTraining. Our first live class was in June 2008. Four years later, we’ve now taught 400 Joomla and…
Using Jetpack for WordPress
Jetpack is many plugins in one. Built by Automattic, the people behind WordPress.com, JetPack offers around a dozen features including comments, statistics, social bookmarks and…
Absolute Beginners Guide to Drupal Revisions
Do you work with clumsy people? Are you a clumsy person yourself? If so, then Revisions might be the solution for you. Revisions is a…
Gtranslate for WordPress Provides Automatic Translations
Gtranslate for WP is a plugin that will place a translation widget on your site, and allow for instant machine translation into 58 different languages.…
Creating a Google XML Sitemap for WordPress
The Google XML Sitemap plugin will generate a special sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.…
Reusing Drupal Webforms Across All Your Content
Webform is a wonderful Drupal module. We’ve an introduction to using Webform and a follow-up tutorial on how to send the form results to different…
The Ultimate TinyMCE Editor for WordPress
The default WordPress editor is designed for 80% of people. It’s simple to understand, simple to use and simple in terms of features. However, advanced WordPress…
What You Need to Know About WordPress 3.5
WordPress released version 3.4 last month. Now a roadmap is starting to take shape for version 3.5. What can we expect from WordPress 3.5 and…
What You Need to Know About Drupal 8
Six months ago we said that “Drupal 8 is underway with lots of great ideas and initiatives.” Now it’s time for an update. Where does…
Our New WordPress Theme Design Class
Just over five weeks ago we launched a huge new WordPress Intermediate class. We now have another WordPress treat for OSTraining members: our new WordPress…
Joomla Explained Will Become a Series
One year ago this week, we released Joomla Explained. It was a tough book to write for several reasons, but it was worth it in…