How to Test a WordPress Backup Before Restoring
If you’re here, you probably have a sound backup strategy in place to protect your data from any loss or outages. But, do you have…
WordPress Multisite vs Multiple Sites
WordPress Multisite vs Multiple Sites – that is the question. Are you running a global business offering customized products to individual countries or regions? Do…
How to Automatically Add Stripe’s Fee Using RSForm!Pro
It’s fairly easy to create a simple payment system using RSForm!Pro in Joomla!. When you combine it with Stripe as the payment processor, you get…
Introduction to Animation in CSS
CSS Animations give your site and/or brand a unique touch, provide more accessibility, help create affordance (the perception about how an element inside the design…
Using Content Versions in Joomla
Do you edit a particular article on a regular basis? Do you ever make mistakes and hit Save and Close too quickly? If you answered…
The OSTraining Podcast Season 2 Ep #1: Miguel Balparda on Magento
In this first episode of season 2, we’re happy to welcome Miguel Balparda of Nexcess to talk about Magento 2. Miguel is a globe trotting…
How to Use Contextual Filters in Drupal 8
Contextual filters in Drupal allow you to add or remove information (content) to the currently displayed view. The filter acts dynamically based on the URL.…
Joomla Template Tools – Viewing Positions and Other Templates
Have you ever been trying to figure out which position was where on your template? Ever wanted to see your Joomla site using a different…
Are Progressive Web Apps the Future of Magento eCommerce?
The ecommerce industry has evolved since Magento was first released over a decade ago. In 2008, shoppers visited stores on desktop machines. They were tolerant…
How to Use WooCommerce Product Revisions
WooCommerce is the most popular way to build an eCommerce site with WordPress. If you are careful with your product listings, you will want to…
How to Perform a Backup of Your WordPress Site and Store It in Dropbox
As a web developer or a site builder, you know that there is always something that could go wrong with your site. As an example,…
View your Joomla Site as a Public User while Set Offline
Sometimes when building a new site or making changes to an existing site, you want to have the site online, yet in an offline mode.…
PublishPress Revisions is the Major New Version of Revisionary
Revisionary is a WordPress plugin that has been around for nearly 10 years. Revisionary allowed you to moderate or schedule changes to published posts. The…
How to Schedule a Revision to Go Live in WordPress
One OSTraining user asked us this week if it was possible to schedule a revision to go live in the future. This would be very…
How to Moderate and Schedule Revisions in WordPress
WordPress has one of the most powerful revision systems available on any blogging platform. When you start writing in WordPress, your changes will be automatically…
How to Manually Update Drupal Core through CPanel
Drupal is a wonderful Content Management System with tons of features that solve many problems for editors and content managers. A developer can take different approaches…
How to Migrate an existing WordPress instance to an Azure VM with WP+MySQL running in Docker
All deployments of WordPress require an installation of PHP for running WordPress Core and associated extensions, along with a MySQL database for backing storage of your…
How to Create Image Collages in WordPress
The Easy Image Collage plugin for WordPress allows you to create image collages within your WordPress site and use them everywhere, either on a post,…
CSS Flexbox # 17. Using CSS Variables With CSS Flexbox
We’ve already determined that CSS Flexbox is super cool, so let’s look at mixing in another super cool CSS tool. Custom Properties (also known as…
Useful Tips for Securing your Drupal Site
Drupal is well known for its stability and security out-of-the-box. However, we all know how dangerous the internet can be with all the risks of…