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Solving the Invalid Token Error in Joomla

As a Joomla user, you've likely experienced the "Invalid Token" error when logging into your site.

You've probably had questions about it from users or customers who wanted it resolved.

In the following tutorial, we'll cover what it is and how to resolve it. Unlike other solutions you might find, this won't involve a core hack and it won't compromise your site's security.



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OSTraining Will Release 200 Drupal 8 Videos for Free

Yes, you read that right: we're going to release 200 free Drupal 8 videos.

We want Drupal 8 to be a success. One way we can help make that happen is to make reliable training available to as wide an audience as possible.

Back in April, we launched our Drupal 8 training Kickstarter project. The project closed in mid-May with enough sponsorship for 100 videos, but over the last 6 weeks we've been talking with more sponsors and now have backing for 200 videos!

Here's an overview of the all the free Drupal training, plus an introduction to the organizations who made it possible.



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Using Administration Menu and Shortcuts in Drupal

An OSTraining member recently took our recommendation and installed the Administration Menu module, which makes it much easier to navigate through your Drupal site.

However, after enabling Administration Menu, they found that they lost their Shortcuts menu. This is normally the grey bar under Drupal's default admin toolbar.

Here's how to use Administration Menu and Shortcuts together.



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The Redirection Plugin Solves WordPress 301 and 404 Errors

Are you moving your WordPress site to a new URL or directory?
Are you updating some of your site's permalinks?


If so, you need the Redirection plugin for WordPress.

Redirection can manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and tidy up any loose ends your site has with permalinks.

Here are 3 videos to get anyone started with the Redirection plugin:



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New Video Class: Build a WordPress Membership Site

Adding a revenue stream on your WordPress website is something a lot of our members want to do.

In this class, Topher explores Paid Memberships Pro, a WordPress Plugin and support community for membership site curators. This plugin is straightforward, very robust and completely free!



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Book Review: Programming Joomla! Plugins by Jisse Reitsma

Programming Joomla! Plugins by Jisse Reitsma is a very precisely named book.

Jisse takes 350 pages to cover every aspect of coding Joomla plugins.

Plugins are often forgotten about by Joomla users, relegated in importance behind templates, components and modules.

Jisse dedicates a whole book to restoring plugins to their proper place - central to Joomla's power and flexibility.

If anyone is up to this task, it's Jisse. He knows plugins. Together with his team at Yireo, Jisse has released over 20 Joomla extensions. The list if his gives you a window into what plugins can do:

Put Joomla behind an SSL certificate
Merges all your CSS and Javascript files
Integrate Joomla with Github and New Relic
Schedule automatic email sending

Jisse's book focuses on the development of plugins, so you will need some PHP and XML knowledge to follow along. If you have those skills, then this book will help you write your own plugins from scratch.
Almost every page on the book is 20% to 50% full of...



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How Devesh Sharma Launched His WordPress Career at 15

When I was 15 the internet didn't exist as far as ordinary members of the public were concerned.

Devesh Sharma, on the other hand, was launching online business at the age of 15. Fast forward several years and Devesh is a full time bloggerr, based out of India, and running a popular WordPress resource site called WPKube.



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Drupal: What If Your Clean URL Test Fails?

By default, Drupal 7 creates URLs that look like this, "example.com/?q=node/4".

This type of URL can be hard to read, hard to remember and may not be search engine friendly. The solution is to configure Drupal's clean URLs.

Drupal provides a test so you can see whether your site is ready fror clean URLs:



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Create a Slideshow with Joomla and FlexSlider 2

Flexslider 2 is a jQuery plugin by WooThemes and it makes it very easy to create slideshows.

The Newsflash module is part of the Joomla core and it can automatically display a list of articles, together with images from your body text.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to combine FlexSlider 2 and Newsflash in order to create a beautiful slideshow that updates automatically.



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The Beginner's Guide to Drupal Security Releases

There was a Drupal security release this week.

This release managed to confuse several of our users, because it wasn't clear if they should update their sites.

Security release information is rarely, if ever, written in plain English. And these week's updates were additionally confusing because they only impacted some Drupal sites.

So here, upon request, is our plain English guide to Drupal security releases.



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