WordPress 5 is available today. The headline feature is the new Gutenberg editor.
This is perhaps the biggest single-day release in the history of open source software. That's no exaggeration. I'm unable to think of any other change that was so significant and was quickly pushed out to over 30% of the web.
Genesis Explained is the latest OSTraining to be updated. This new release talk about the recently sale of Genesis to WPEngine.
This release also included updates for Genesis 2.7 and 2.7.1, both of which arrived last week and the book already reflects those week.
Nick Croft, the writer of Genesis Explained, has been following along with the development of Genesis. He even got some core contributions in this cycle.
So you have everything ready for launch and your site is sitting on your local computer. You're ready to move WordPress to the "real" server and start publishing.
Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how to export and import your data base, and get WordPress running on the new server.
Did you know that every WordPress site can embed posts from every other WordPress site? WordPress sites are oEmbed providers.
Out-of-the-box, your embeddable posts will take on the look and feel of the WordPress core default template. In this blog post, you will learn how to make your embeddables consistent with the look and feel of your own template.
WordPress themes makes it possible to give your users control of many aspects of their site's designs.
One of the most common design features in themes are featured images. Many bloggers love to use large, high-quality images for their posts.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to add featured image support in a custom WordPress theme.
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, the best way to change your site's fonts via the admin is a module called @font-your-face
The @font-your-face module allows you to work with webfonts like Google Fonts or Font Squirrel. It also provides the ability to work with paid font services like Typekit or fonts.com.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to configure and use this module in Drupal 8.
If you have a multilingual website, it's worth thinking about the SEO challenges you'll face.
Most website owners only need to optimize for one language. Simply adding another language doubles the amount of optimization work you need to do. Plus, you need to think about another version of Google, with different competitors and different challenges.
SEO concerns a real with multilingual websites. In this guide, based on advice from the "How to Build Multilingual WordPress Sites" class, we'll focus on key ways you can improve your site's SEO.
Until the middle of 2017, it wasn't possible to install any plugins on WordPress.com. If you used WordPress.com, you got a very stripped-down WordPress experience. However, that has started to change recently, and users on higher-level WordPress.com plans can now install their own plugins.
Last week, I was helping out a friend with a WordPress.com site and stumbled upon their WooCommerce store. I hadn't been into WordPress.com for some time, and was surprised by how different the experience was. I knew the "Posts" screen was different, but had no idea that WooCommerce also looks very different on WordPress.com.
In this blog post, I'm going to show you to enable Drupal users to select entities using the "Entity Browser" module.
This tutorial was requested by an OSTraining customer who is building a book review site. The customer wanted to use Entity Browser so that they can create this feature:
Spam is more than an irritation. It can reduce your productivity. Sometimes the spam prevention can be as bad as the spam itself, making your visitors spot similar images, do maths sums or answer questions to prove that they are human.
This can put people off interacting with your website. Fortunately, WordPress has plugins that can handle spam transparently, without creating irritation to either you or your visitors. In this blog post, you will take a look at two of them.
The new Gutenberg editor is due to arrive with WordPress 5.0 on November 27.
We're already starting to see new types of Gutenberg-specific plugin. These aren't old plugins that have a layer of Gutenberg comptability. These are new plugins that a block-first. They're built for the new Gutenberg era.
One of the most popular of these new plugins is Advanced Gutenberg from JoomUnited. This plugin provides over 20 new blocks. It's helpful to think of them in two categories:
Say "hello" to the 11th book from OSTraining. This new book introduces a new way to do local web development.
"Local Web Development With DDEV Explained" shows you how to do local development in a way that matches modern development workflows.
Mike Anello is a long-time member of the Drupal and web development communities. In this book, he recommends replacing WAMP, MAMP and similar tools with DDev-Local, a Docker-based system.
DDEV-Local is an open-source local development environment for PHP-based projects. It provides a robust and flexible setup for platforms such as Drupal, WordPress, and TYPO3.
Elementor and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) are two of the most popular and powerful plugins in WordPress:
This week, we have a video showing you how to use these two plugins together to create superb sites. Rod shows you how to create an IMDB-style movie review website using Elementor and ACF together.
There are many ways to present data to your readers. One example would be a table or a list. Sometimes the best approach is to show data on a chart.
It can ease understanding of large quantities of data. There is a way to make charts in Drupal with the help of the Charts module and Views.
In this tutorial, you will learn the basic usage of the module in combination with the Google Charts library.
As you already learned in a previous tutorial, CKEditor, the default WYSIWYG Editor for Drupal 8, can be enhanced through the installation of different plugins. They add buttons to the editor with additional features.
Content editors often need to embed accordion tabs into their articles, for example, to present a group of Frequently Asked Questions with their answers or to visually divide a topic into several subtopics.
The CKEditor Accordion module for Drupal 8 allows editors to insert an accordion directly into the WYSIWYG Editor (and therefore into the node) without the need to configure additional modules or even Views.
This tutorial will explain the usage of this module. Let’s start!
Daniel has played a key role in Gutenberg, the WP REST API, the WP-CLI project, Co-Authors Plus, Edit Flow, Jetpack, Post Meta Inspector, Publishing Checklist, Rewrite Rules and the list goes on and on.
In this episode, Daniel explains how he accidentally stumbled into such a key role in the WordPress world. We spend time talking about how Daniel balances all these duties, including how he moves on when his time is up in a role.
