WordPress Post and Page Screen Options
One of our students noticed that his Add a New Post area looked different that our tutorial. For example, he had no excerpt or custom…
Clearing your Browser Cache, Cookies and History
Browsers want to appear really fast for you. So instead of going back to the webpage every time you visit it, they save copies of…
How to Exclude a Page from the Pages Widget in WordPress
One of our students asked us how to remove a link from a left menu. In his case the link was coming from the Pages…
We’re Teaching at DrupalCon London in August
As an ex-pat Brit, it gives me great pleasure to say that we’re coming home in August. OSTraining is going to be providing Drupal training…
How to Use the BrightCove Debugger
Here at OSTraining, we usethe same video provider as the New York Times, Sky, Fox, the Weather Channel and more so the video quality is…
Welcoming Rod Martin to OSTraining
We’re delighted to welcome Rod Martin to OSTraining this week. Rod’s a “new” staff member only in a very literal sense. He’s been working with…
Use W3 Total Cache to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
Speed is everything these days. People are browsing faster and have a shorter attention span. Time is literally money: Microsoft showed that when pages slowed…
All in One SEO Pack Tutorial
This video and tutorial will show you how to use the All in One SEO Pack, perhaps the most popular plugin for optimizing your WordPress…
Drupal Classes Starting in Tampa
OSTraining Drupal classes are coming to Florida. Over the last year we’ve been slowiy expanding up and down the U.S.. We now run classes from…
Drupal 6 and 7: Author and Date Information
There was one small little feature in Drupal 6 that would routinely drive students in our classes mad. It wasn’t a major feature but it…
Drupal 7 Uploading Modules and Themes
In Drupal 6, uploading modules and themes was often troublesome for beginners. They would have to follow a confusing process: Download the files Uncompress them…
Drupal 7 Taxonomy Changes
Drupal 7 introduced many new changes. One of these involves Taxonomy, Drupal’s way of organizing content. Let’s see what’s changed with Taxonomy and what you’ll…
How to Create a Frontpage Slideshow in WordPress
This tutorial will walk you through step by step how to create a slideshow for the frontpage of your WordPress site. We’re going to use…
$220 of Birthday Presents with Your Joomla Training
It was 12 months ago when we officially launched our online Joomla training program; and since it’s our 1st birthday, we are offering a very…
We’re Teaching at DrupalCon Chicago
We’re happy to announce that we’ll be presenting a pre-conference training session: the Absolute Beginners Guide to Drupal, at DrupalCon Chicago next month. The class…
Joomla 1.6 and Drupal 7 Demo Sites
Are you wondering what’s new in Joomla 1.6 and Drupal 7? Well, wonder no longer. We’ve set up demo versions of Release Candidates for both…
Restore a WordPress Backup Using Automatic WordPress Backup
Things are not quite right with your site. You have tried troubleshooting the issue for the last four hours and you are getting frustrated. Then…
How to Automatically Backup WordPress
Backup! Backup! Backup! There are few things more frustrating than having to redo an entire site from scratch after a major issue occurs with the…
2 Drupal Classes in Washington DC Every Month
Drupal is taking off in Washington D.C. At the beginning of 2010 we were running our Beginner and Intermediate Drupal classes every three months in…
How to Turn On the Drupal Search Module
Drupal’s search module allows your site’s users to search both the content on the site and also the registered users. In order for your users…