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September 21, 2015
Updated Video Class: WooCommerce Part 2
As I mentioned last week, WooCommerce is one of the best choices for e-commerce on WordPress.
WooCommerce really can transform your WordPress website into an excellent online store.
In this week's video release, Topher gives us Part 2 of the update of our WooCommerce class.
In Part 2, Topher covers advanced features in WooCommerce from product attributes and variations, to shipping and taxes, to theming and coding for WooCommerce.
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WooCommerce really can transform your WordPress website into an excellent online store.
In this week's video release, Topher gives us Part 2 of the update of our WooCommerce class.
In Part 2, Topher covers advanced features in WooCommerce from product attributes and variations, to shipping and taxes, to theming and coding for WooCommerce.
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September 19, 2015
Gantry 5: Particles, Atoms and the Layout Manager
Welcome to the third post in our 5-part series on the Gantry 5 framework from RocketThemes.
In the previous post, we learned how to build a simple website using Gantry and the Hydrogen template.
Now that we've created our first website, let's look at creating a more advanced layout.
Normally, as a Joomla user, we would now add some modules to the site. However, Gantry 5 introduces a few other ways of adding modules.
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In the previous post, we learned how to build a simple website using Gantry and the Hydrogen template.
Now that we've created our first website, let's look at creating a more advanced layout.
Normally, as a Joomla user, we would now add some modules to the site. However, Gantry 5 introduces a few other ways of adding modules.
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September 18, 2015
Automatically Populate Drupal Fields From Other Content
One of our members wanted to automatically fill in Drupal fields from another node.
It took a little experimentation, but we managed to make it work using the Token, Token Filter and Entity Reference modules.
This technique works for nodes, but it should allow you to automatically popular field using data from any entity.
Before you begin, follow this tutorial on using tokens in Drupal fields. That will give you set up you need to complete these next steps.
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It took a little experimentation, but we managed to make it work using the Token, Token Filter and Entity Reference modules.
This technique works for nodes, but it should allow you to automatically popular field using data from any entity.
Before you begin, follow this tutorial on using tokens in Drupal fields. That will give you set up you need to complete these next steps.
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September 17, 2015
Debug Your Mobile Site in Android with Chrome Canary
Google's Chrome browser includes DevTools, a built-in feature similar to Firebug.
DevTools is really helpful for debugging CSS problems ... on a desktop computer. However, DevTools is no use on a mobile device.
In this tutorial, I'm going show you how to use the Chrome Canary browser to debug CSS on your Android phone. Chrome Canary is a version of the normal Chrome browser, but modified specifically for developers.
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DevTools is really helpful for debugging CSS problems ... on a desktop computer. However, DevTools is no use on a mobile device.
In this tutorial, I'm going show you how to use the Chrome Canary browser to debug CSS on your Android phone. Chrome Canary is a version of the normal Chrome browser, but modified specifically for developers.
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Use Views to Display Fields inside Panels
One of our members had a problem. They wanted to display a large number of images inside a Panel.
The images were all uploaded to a node and they were displaying vertically.
Our recommendation was to use Views. This allows you to take much greater control over how the images are displayed.
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The images were all uploaded to a node and they were displaying vertically.
Our recommendation was to use Views. This allows you to take much greater control over how the images are displayed.
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September 16, 2015
How to Upgrade from PayPal Personal to Business
When people are setting up an e-commerce store, it's common to use PayPal.
Love it or hate, many of us have PayPal accounts and it's the first way that many of try to accept money.
However, your account may well be showing your personal name rather than your business name. It looks so much more professional to pay "OSTraining" rather than "Steve Burge".
In this video, Topher shows you how to solve this problem by upgrading from PayPal Personal to Business.
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Love it or hate, many of us have PayPal accounts and it's the first way that many of try to accept money.
However, your account may well be showing your personal name rather than your business name. It looks so much more professional to pay "OSTraining" rather than "Steve Burge".
In this video, Topher shows you how to solve this problem by upgrading from PayPal Personal to Business.
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September 15, 2015
How to Use Aggregation and Compression in Drupal
By default, the Drupal 7 core loads around 20 different CSS and Javascript files.
So, in order to make your Drupal site run quickly, it's essential to load those files as quickly as possible. It's easy to get started by enabling the aggregation and compression options in Drupal.
Aggregation gathers all the files together and loads them as one. Compression reduces the size of each individual file, stripping out unnecessary characters, whitespace and implementing CSS shortcuts.
In this video, Robert Ring shows you how enable Drupal's core aggregation and compression options:
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So, in order to make your Drupal site run quickly, it's essential to load those files as quickly as possible. It's easy to get started by enabling the aggregation and compression options in Drupal.
Aggregation gathers all the files together and loads them as one. Compression reduces the size of each individual file, stripping out unnecessary characters, whitespace and implementing CSS shortcuts.
In this video, Robert Ring shows you how enable Drupal's core aggregation and compression options:
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Introducing the 5 New Fields in Drupal 8
The Drupal 8 core has far more features than the Drupal 7 core. Many popular contributed modules have been included in the core, including five field types.
Here are the 5 new fields in Drupal 8:
Date
Email
Link
Telephone
Reference
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Here are the 5 new fields in Drupal 8:
Date
Link
Telephone
Reference
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September 14, 2015
Updated Video Class: WooCommerce
WooCommerce is one of the best choices for e-commerce on WordPress.
WooCommerce really can transform your WordPress website into an excellent online store.
Created by the WooThemes team, WooCommerce now powers around 30% of all online stores. It is so popular that WooCommerce was recently purchased by Automattic and Matt Mullenweg.
In this week's video class, Topher updates our class and takes us through everything we need to know to get WooCommerce working on your WordPress sites, along with the fantastic updates to this very popular plugin.
Because this class is nearly 30 videos long, we're releasing Part 1 this week, followed by Part 2 next week.
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WooCommerce really can transform your WordPress website into an excellent online store.
Created by the WooThemes team, WooCommerce now powers around 30% of all online stores. It is so popular that WooCommerce was recently purchased by Automattic and Matt Mullenweg.
In this week's video class, Topher updates our class and takes us through everything we need to know to get WooCommerce working on your WordPress sites, along with the fantastic updates to this very popular plugin.
Because this class is nearly 30 videos long, we're releasing Part 1 this week, followed by Part 2 next week.
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Redirect Drupal Webform Submissions Based on Answers
This week one of our members came up with an interesting question about the Webform module. They wanted to redirect users to different pages depending on their answers.
Here's how you can make that work using Webform conditionals.
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Here's how you can make that work using Webform conditionals.
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