What are Custom Taxonomies in WordPress?
Taxonomy is a common word in biology. In science, it’s a hierarchy of terms used to classify almost everything. Wikipedia has a full explanation here.…
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Access Control in WordPress With PublishPress Capabilities
There is one reason I keep hearing over and over again from people who don’t use WordPress: there’s no access control. For large organizations, it’s…
Disable a WordPress Plugin Without Access to Your Admin Area
Normally, disabling a WordPress plugin is very simple and straightforward. How easy? You can login to your admin area, click the “Plugins” tab and click “Deactivate”…
Using the Drupal Aggregator Module
Aggregator is a key part of Drupal that is often ignored. I blame it on the confusing name. No, Aggregator is not an animal in…
Adding a Weather Block to Your Drupal Site
One of our students is building a local tourism website. They wanted to show the local weather on the site but without any of the…
Moving Your WordPress Blog to an Inside Page
It should be a simple task: move your blog from the homepage to an inside page. It’s often an important part of using your WordPress…
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…
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…
Use the Drupal Widgets Module For Reusable Content
The Widgets module allows you to centrally manage text and code snippets across your Drupal site. You can also combine the snippets into sets for…
The Disappearance of Open Source?
A little while ago we made the decision here at ostraining.com to alter how our name is shown to visitors. We changed “Open Source Training”…
The OSToolbar is Now on WordPress.org
Last week we released a completely free version of the OSToolbar. In more good news, the OSToolbar is now available on WordPress.org. The OSToolbar’s official…
GetPantheon.com Drupal Hosting Review
There is one question we get time and time and again from developers who are new to Drupal: “How do I create a staging environment…
What’s New in the OSToolbar for Joomla?
The OSToolbar is our way of making life easier for webdesigners. Using the OSToolbar, you can place video tutorials directly into the Joomla administrator. Your…
What’s New in the OSToolbar for WordPress?
The OSToolbar is our way of making life easier for webdesigners. Using the OSToolbar, you can place video tutorials directly into a WordPress dashboard. Your…
WordPress 3.4 is All About Theme Customization
The beta version of WordPress 3.4 is out. So what’s new? At first glance, you might say “not much”. Unlike version 3.3, there are no…
How to Give WordPress Videos to All Your Customers
The OSToolbar is a great way to provide OSTraining videos to your customers. You can give your webdesign customers WordPress videos, and they can all…
A Introduction to the Drupal 7 Media Module
The Media Module is one of the most hyped new modules for Drupal 7. It is often talked about as the best option for handling…
Who is Drupal User 1?
Drupal User 1 is a deity. Drupal is fairly unique in that it has this one user who towers over every other user on your…
How to Enable or Clear Cache for Drupal 7 sites
Caching increases the apparent speed of the website by storing copies of the pages on the server on the browser and keeping the copies in…
How to Create Dropdown Menus in Drupal
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…