Do you accept guest blog posts on your WordPress site?
It's a great way to drive traffic to your site, improve your SEO, and create connections with other bloggers.
However, by default, everyone who writes on your WordPress site has to have a user account. So to accept a guest author post, you need to create a user account that the author may never use.
PageSpeed Insights is a great website speed testing tool from Google.
Millions of webmasters across the globe use it on a daily basis to measure performance and loading speed of their sites.
When it comes to testing, you may want to diversify your toolset though.
In this blog post, you will look at the top eight alternatives to Google's PageSpeed Insights.
Drupal is having another terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time.
Two new security issues, named "Drupalgeddon 2" and "Drupalgeddon 3", have resulted in widespread problems. These latest issues resulted in cryptocurrency mining hacks to a number of high-profile sites, including several run by US federal agencies.
WooCommerce is probably your best choice for eCommerce in WordPress.
WooCommerce is hugely popular and now powers over 40% of all online stores. It is so commonly used that WooCommerce was purchased by Automattic and Matt Mullenweg back in 2015. This might be controversial to say, but it is close to being the "official" WordPress eCommerce plugin.
In this week's video release, Rod Martin updates our WooCommerce class. This class is now over 30 videos long and covers every aspect of getting started with WooCommerce.
The lessons are based on the WooCommerce Explained book. Join OSTraining today and you'll get access to both the books and videos.
If you're building a multilingual WordPress site, you need a multilingual WordPress theme.
You don't necessarily need a theme that has been translated, but you do need a theme that can be translated.
Let me show you how you can find a translatable theme.
This tutorial is all about managing users on your Drupal 8 site.
I'll show you how to control who can do what on your site:
You also see how to make user accounts more interesting. You do this by allowing users to add more information about them.
By default, a Drupal 8 user account collects only very basic information about the user.
And, most of that information is not visible to visitors or other users on the site.
Fortunately, Drupal makes it easy to modify and expand this profile so that people can add useful information about themselves such as their real name (versus a username), address, employer, URLs, biography, and more.
You may face issues with Joomla when reinstalling it is the best solution.
Our customer support team used this tested approach to resolve hundreds of issues.
In this post, you will learn how to easily reinstall the Joomla core files and database to their default state.
Magento is an open source ecommerce platform designed and used by many companies to strengthen their brands. Today it is one of the most trusted platforms for developing web based ecommerce businesses.
Setting up an ecommerce store requires lots of strategies to be undertaken in order to come up with an excellent working online store, something that is not as easy as it sounds. By using Magento, users can create both simple and sophisticated stores that can be customized as per the users’ ideas.
You have a number of tools available to power your website creation and growth today. And they are quickly getting more and more comprehensive and newbie-friendly year after year.
Having a wide array of options is always great, isn’t it? However, the more you have to choose from, the harder it is to make a choice.
In this post, I will compare the two most popular go-to places to jump-start a process of your website creation: TemplateMonster vs. Wix.
Let’s get started!
How do I get started with Drupal development?
That's a common question we get from people who join OSTraining for the first time. They want to know about the skills they will need, and what kind of classes they should take.
In this guide, I'll give you an overview to help you get started with Drupal development.
One of OSTrainings members asked how to create a search box with a sliding out effect. Their goal was to arrive at the search box similar to the one you can find at the top of Drupal's own website.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a search box that expands once you clicked on its icon. Also, while it stays expanded until you close it, it will keep blurring out your main menu.
Great software development can turn difficult problems into easy tasks. But sometimes, the opposite happens and apparently easy problems become difficult tasks.
Magento makes some tasks way harder than they should be.
This week's new class is a guide to building WordPress sites in multiple languages.
"How to Build Multilingual WordPress Websites" will help you create a single site with content in more than one language.
Did you know that around half of WordPress sites are non-English? That number is only going to increase in the next few years? This class will help you get conformtable with the international side of WordPress.
Watch these videos and you'll learn to translate the WordPress core, plus themes and plugins. You'll also see how to use WPML, the most popular plugin for multilingual WordPress sites.
Telegram is an easy to use free chat application that is rapidly winning fans all over the world.
There is a Telegram plugin for WordPress but there is not yet a Telegram module for Drupal.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to integrate the Telegram app with your Drupal 8 site using JavaScript from Re:plain.
Many WordPress contact forms allow you to embed the form into a post or a page.
The Gator Forms plugin is a little different. It provides you with a floating tab so that visitors can easily access the contact form no matter what page they're on.
Here's how to use Gator Forms to show your contact form inside a tab.
