Add Custom CSS and Javascript To Your Drupal 8 Site
One of the most common questions in our training is how to add custom CSS or Javascript to a Drupal site. The best solution, of…
Tag: Drupal 8
What are View Modes in Drupal 8
Drupal is well known for its flexibility in managing and presenting content. Drupal View Modes allow you to render (display) a Drupal entity or entities…
How To Replace Media in Drupal 8
Now that the media module is in core (watch our class on the Media Module here), we’re starting to see some contributed modules come along…
3 Modules to Enhance Drupal 8 Layout Builder
When Layout Builder was introduced into Drupal 8 Core, it gave Site Builders a tremendous amount of flexibility previously reserved for Front End Developers (or…
How To Manage Image Styles for Media in Drupal 8
For years, Drupal site builders have endured a less than great experience with any media they wanted to use. It was difficult to manage and…
How to use the Slick Module in Drupal 8
One of OSTraining’s members wants to have a carousel slider in her site. She wants the carousel to show 3 image slides and some text…
How to Implement a Simple Forum in Drupal 8
Forums or message boards are an implementation of an early way of communicating, generating content and interacting through the internet, by creating threaded discussion boards,…
How to Use Relationships in Drupal 8
With the Views module, it is possible to fetch pieces of data from a Drupal entity and display them according to a specific format. The…
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.…
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…
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…
Development Environments for Drupal with Vagrant and Scotch Box
Your local websites are always developed within the same operating system, that is the operating system of your machine (Windows, OSX, Linux). However, the online…
Theming a Drupal 8 View with CSS Grid
Some different modules and plugins can alter the display of a view in Drupal, for instance, to alternate the order of image and text every…
How to Create a Masonry-Like View in Drupal 8
Masonry is a very popular JavaScript library, that stacks items in columns and rows, like a masonry brick wall. The items reorder themselves according to…
How to Display Your Fields Inside Tabs in Drupal 8
Extensive nodes (or other types of entities) with many text fields, such as biographies, often remain unread because of the huge (and discouraging) amount of…
Control User Access to Restricted Pages in Drupal 8 with Rabbit Hole
Sometimes, you would want to restrict access to certain pages on your site to users who do not have a specific role. You would want…
How to Rewrite the Output of Views Fields in Drupal
One of our customers asked how to tweak the fields of a table output by Views to give the table a cleaner look. They were…
How to Create CSS and Javascript Animations in Drupal 8
There are multiple JavaScript and CSS libraries on the internet. They allow you to animate parts of your site and make them look more attractive.…
Build a Mega Menu with Ultimenu and Bootstrap in Drupal 8
One of our customers asked how to build a mega menu in Drupal 8. Mega menus are menus with multi-column navigation. They are fastly becoming…
How to Use Google Webfonts in Your Drupal 8 Site
Although Drupal has reputation for being a developers’ platform, lots of user rely on Drupal’s admin area for key tasks. For typography in Drupal sites,…