WP Super Cache to Speed up WordPress
Everyone is concerned about the speed of their website for at least two important reasons: Search engines now take page speed into account when ranking.…
New and Free (!) K2 Class for Joomla
K2 is a really powerful way to manage your Joomla content. Normal Joomla articles give you a title and body. In contrast, K2 allows you…
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Drush
Drush is a great tool for quickly managing routine tasks with a Drupal installation. Drush allows you to search the drupal.org site, install Drupal, install…
WordPress 3.4 is Out With Theme Customization
WordPress 3.4 is out and is available as an upgrade. There are no security issues, so upgrading is recommended but not urgent. There is one…
Drupal Global Training Day: Use Our Videos and Support
Drupal Global Training Days is an initiative by the Drupal Association (D.A.) to introduce new and beginning users to Drupal. Four times every year, the…
Page Title Module – Control Meta Titles in Drupal
Page Title is a very simple, yet very important module when it comes to SEO on your Drupal site. This module gives you granular control…
Sending Drupal Webform Results to Different Email Addresses
One of our students is using Drupal’s Webform module for their site’s contact form. They asked if it was possible to send submissions to different…
Incapsula: CDN, Security and Monitoring for Your Site
Incapsula is one of those companies whose product is useful but also hard to explain. The short version is that your site traffic goes through…
Grab a One Week Free Trial at OSTraining
Hi Everyone, Thanks for giving us a few moments of your time each week. In return, we’ve been working really hard to make OSTraining membership…
Recover a Lost Drupal 7 Password
It happens to all of us … we lose our password. Actually recovering your original password in Drupal 7 is not possible, but resetting one…
Our Drupal 7 Display Suite Class is Here
Last week we launched our class on the Organic Groups module, which explains how to build a social networking site in Drupal. This week we…
10 Easy, Beautiful Drupal Themes
One of the most common complaints we get from newcomers to Drupal is that easy, good-looking themes are hard to find. There are themes which…
How to Create Dropdown Menus with WordPress Pages
No matter what CMS we’re teaching, when we come to talking about themes and designs, one question always comes up quickly: “How do I make…
Using WordPress Custom Menus
Beginners don’t need to know complex coding to manage their menus and navigation in WordPress. They just need to understand the Custom Menu feature that’s…
WordPress One-Click Child Theme Creator
Matt Mullenweg said: “Child themes are the only way you should build your WordPress site on top of a framework.” Why are child themes the…
An Introduction to Functions.php in WordPress
If you’re an aspiring WordPress developer, one of the most important files you need to master is the functions.php file. If you’re developing or modifying…
Watch Out, Munich. Here Comes OSTraining!
OSTraining is going to be providing the pre-conference beginner Drupal training at DrupalCon Munich. We’ll be teaching the Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Drupal, which we…
New, Huge WordPress Intermediate Class
Over the last few months we’ve been releasing some shorter mini-courses with 10 to 12 sessions. Still, sometimes it feels great to just release a…
Insert Audio and Video into Drupal With TinyMCE’s Media Plugin
If you have TinyMCE installed on your Drupal site, you have all you need to upload and play audio and video files. The Media module…
Use Firebug for Editing WordPress Themes
It can be difficult to edit WordPress templates. Many have a lot of CSS files, which makes it difficult to test and to make changes.…