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Replay of the Hikashop Webinar with Nicolas Claverie

Here at OSTraining, we're huge fans of Hikashop. We have an in-depth video class on Hikashop and cover it regularly on this blog.

We think Hikashop is the best way to build a Joomla e-commerce store.

We're delighted to have hosted a webinar with Nicolas Claverie, the lead developer of Hikashop. Nicolas showed us to power up our Hikashop sites and get them ready for the holiday season.

Here is a complete replay of the webinar:



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The Beginners Guide to Widgetkit from YOOtheme

Widgetkit is a very powerful tool provided by the YOOtheme template club.

Actually Widgetkit is not just one tool: it provides a whole set of extensions, bundled into one.

Widgetkit provides photo galleries, slideshows, maps, accordions and much more in one single extension.

Widgetkit 2 was released in January 2015 and is the successor to the original Widgetkit extension, released back in early 2012.



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New Video Class: Build a Drupal Corporate Site

Drupal is used for a myriad of different kinds of websites. This week we complete the release of the "Build a Drupal Corporate Website" with Robert Ring.

During this class, Robert talks about planning, content types, modules, themes and everything you might need for this kind of site.

You'll build a blog, personnel department, a views slideshow and more for the fictitious corporation, BoardGames Ltd.



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New Video Class: Build a Drupal Corporate Site (Part 2)

 

Drupal is used for a myriad of different kinds of websites. This week we complete the release of the "Build a Drupal Corporate Website" with Robert Ring.

During this class, Robert talks about planning, content types, modules, themes and everything you might need for this kind of site.

You'll build a blog, personnel department, a views slideshow and more for the fictitious corporation, BoardGames Ltd.



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How to Create Footnotes in WordPress

Sometimes you might want to add a clarification to a text. But, as soon as you add it, you realize it's too much text. Footnotes to the rescue!

In this tutorial, we'll show you an easy way to create footnotes in WordPress.



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How to Print the User Group in Joomla with PHP

One of our members asked how to display the user group in the Joomla frontend by using PHP.

In this short tutorial, we'll share the snippet that solves the request.



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Create a Custom Joomla 404 Page with 404 Status Code

Our first 404 tutorial was helpful to a lot of people. However, some users also wanted the status code of the page to be a 404.

This tutorial will show you how to create a custom 404 page with a 404 status code in Joomla. Let's get started...




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Create a Custom 404 Page with 404 Status Code

Our first 404 tutorial was helpful to a lot of people. However, some users also wanted the status code of the page to be a 404.

This tutorial will show you how to create a custom 404 page with a 404 status code in Joomla. Let's get started...




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Goodbye Webform? Contact Forms Are In the Drupal 8 Core

In Drupal 7, if you wanted to create contact forms, you had to use a contributed module. Webform and Entityform were the most popular options.

Now in Drupal 8, forms are in core. Will be saying to goodbye to those popular Drupal 7 modules? Read on and find out ...



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Custom Blog Layouts in Joomla with Menu Item Type Support

One of our users needed a customised blog layout. The user wanted to keep the default blog layout in some situations, and use a new design for some blog pages.

In this tutorial, I'm going show you how to create a custom layout and how to control it via a menu link.



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