A boxout is a design element used mainly in magazines to enclose related information to the main article while retaining some type of connection. You can use it to add extra links related to your content or a small bio.
The "Boxout" contrib module helps you add this design element to your content directly in CKEditor. In this tutorial, you will learn how to do just that. Let’s start!
One of our customers recently asked us how to set up a multilingual WordPress site to manually translate it. The Polylang plugin does just that.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Polylang plugin to create a multilingual WordPress site from scratch.
If you really care about your WordPress content, you know that it's a constant struggle to maintain high standards.
It's not easy to create consistent, high-quality posts. Without a careful approach, you'll find your site has a different approach from post to post, and you'll soon end up with lots of messy content.
One solution is a WordPress checklist plugin. These plugins enable you to decide the requirement for each post before you publish.
We downloaded and tested all the checklist plugins for WordPress. Here's our review of all four WordPress checklist plugins ...
Does it matter how many words you write in each blog post?
Yes, for many people, it does.
Some writers set themselves a target number of words per day, as a good habit. Whether your target is 500, 1000, 2000 or even more words, a lot of writers love the discipline of hitting a daily target.
Some other writers are aiming for a specific word count simply for marketing purposes. It's generally thought that Google gives a higher rank to longer posts, so long as they're interesting. So many SEO experts recommend you write posts between 2000 and 2500 words.
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. Let’s start!
Does your WordPress site show a message similar to this?
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in wp-admin/includes/theme.php on line 81
If your answer is "yes", this tutorial is for you.
We've helped several of our students with similar issues so we decided to write a tutorial to hopefully help someone else out as well.
Before starting to read this guide, it's worth understanding what PHP errors are in WordPress.
One of our members was wanting an efficient way to track which content needs review, so we created this tutorial for him.
WordPress has really useful features for content creation and maintenance. One of those features is the core "Pending Review" feature. "Pending Review" is one of two default statuses in WordPress, in addition to "Draft". Click here to see the difference between Pending Review and Draft.
We'll also show you how to use a really powerful plugin called PublishPress.
Happy New Year, everyone.
For me personally, this month marks 7 years of OSTraining and 10 years of doing online training full-time.
That's long enough to have been through a few cycles.
2017 was a relatively quiet year. There were almost no major releases. WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Bootstrap - none of them had a blockbuster release last year.
That's all about to change in 2018.
If you’re looking to translate and display your website in different languages, whether it’s to increase your audience or to reach more customers, you should be very interested in Weglot plugin.
It is a WordPress multilingual plugin. It enables you to translate and manage your translations. With this plugin, you can deploy and display your translated pages extremely efficiently.
In this blog post, you will learn how to quickly set it up. You will also take a look at how to enjoy multi-lingual features Weglot Translate offers to you.
As the years go by, businesses need to adapt to a changing market.
Customers want different things in 2018 than they did a few years ago.
In 2012, our business was 90% live training. One of our teachers flew to a city and stood in front of a room full of students. We then tried to mentor the students with ongoing support after the class.
In 2018, our business is 90% online training.
If you already learned how to embed a media asset into CKEditor in this tutorial, you’d probably noticed that the media asset selection occurs through an autocomplete field.
This doesn't really help those working with their media assets. Nobody remembers every single name of every single asset to embed. Good news is there are a few modules in Drupal 8, which can help you enjoy your media browsing task.
In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to configure the Entity Browser Module, in order to quickly find your media assets and easily embed them in your text editor.
Sometimes I invite people on the podcast because we've been friends for years. Other times, I invite people because we love their products. Pressbooks falls squarely into the second category.
At the beginning of 2017, I'd never heard of Pressbooks. We now use them to write, edit and publish ALL our books.
Pressbooks is a WordPress-based platform that actually makes book publishing fun! We used to take 3 years to write a book. With Pressbooks we're often done in less than 3 months.
Follow Pressbooks on Twitter at @pressbooks and try their platform at Pressbooks.com.
Akeeba Backup is one of the most popular Joomla extensions. It helps you to backup your Joomla site in case a disaster strikes. We love it. So do our customers.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to bring the security of your backups to the next level. You will learn how to store your Akeeba Backup created backups more securely.
Child themes are the best way to modify WordPress themes. With a child theme, you can add custom CSS styles and keep the original theme intact in case it needs to be updated in the future.
However, child themes aren't always easy to create. In this post, you will learn how to generate them with just a few clicks, using the Child Theme Configurator plugin.
The new media capabilities in Drupal allow you create a media library with all kinds of media assets and use these assets everywhere.
One way to use them is to embed these assets directly into CKEditor.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to pull a video from Vimeo with the Video Embed Field module. You will only need to store the video URL on your Drupal site. This will come in handy for a lot of site editors. Let’s start!
Multisites allow you run multiple websites from just one WordPress installation. Each website can have different users, different themes and different plugins.
This is possible because the old WPMU (WordPress Multi-User) project was merged into the main WordPress system. This is the same codebase that allows WordPress.com to run millions of sites, so you can be sure it works well.
In order to set this up, you will need access to your files so that you can edit them. This tutorial will show you how. When you've finished, click here to read Part 2 of this tutorial: Managing WordPress Multisites
