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March 26, 2015
The Best Way to Build Custom Meta Boxes in WordPress?
Recently I needed to accomplish a specific chore for my job. I needed to make a meta box in the WordPress admin.
The image below shows an example of a simple meta box. In WordPress, in the admin area, any box that holds a part of the User Interface is called a meta box.
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The image below shows an example of a simple meta box. In WordPress, in the admin area, any box that holds a part of the User Interface is called a meta box.
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March 24, 2015
Going to California for DrupalCon Los Angeles
Some cities are world class destinations. London, New York, Barcelona, Sydney, Hong Kong ... you know the names.
DrupalCon isn't always held in a world class city, but in 2015 it will be. The North American DrupalCon is headed to Los Angeles.
DrupalCon Los Angeles runs from May 11 to 15, and you should go to California with us.
DrupalCon Los Angeles is going to be one full week of Drupal with sessions, business events, education and beautiful weather that many of you have missed this winter. Oh, and it's a great excuse to include this song in a blog post:
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DrupalCon isn't always held in a world class city, but in 2015 it will be. The North American DrupalCon is headed to Los Angeles.
DrupalCon Los Angeles runs from May 11 to 15, and you should go to California with us.
DrupalCon Los Angeles is going to be one full week of Drupal with sessions, business events, education and beautiful weather that many of you have missed this winter. Oh, and it's a great excuse to include this song in a blog post:
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March 23, 2015
Updated Video Class: CSS, Part 1
Whether you use a CMS or even static HTML design for your websites, the next most important tool in your tool chest after the CMS itself is CSS.
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is the part of your design that provides the layout, look and feel of your website. When I'm asked in our training what someone should learn next, CSS is always at the top of my list.
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CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is the part of your design that provides the layout, look and feel of your website. When I'm asked in our training what someone should learn next, CSS is always at the top of my list.
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New Video Class: GIMP, Part 4
In this final installment of a four part series, Vicki continues exploring the power of GIMP covering selections, filters, cloning and paint tools. If you're looking for a great open source (free) alternative to Photoshop, GIMP is a great choice!
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
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GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
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March 20, 2015
Mike Bradshaw from Company Lab in Chattanooga
Welcome to the "New Tech Cities" series at OSTraining.
In this series we're talking about cities that were rundown but are re-inventing themselves, as using technology to do so. We're trying to get to the bottom of the questions, "What does it take to turn around a struggling city?" and "Can technology help?"
Our initial focus is on the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and here are all the articles published so far:
Introduction
Ronna-Renee Jackson from the Chattanooga Technology Council
Alex Lavidge from Variable Inc.
Andrew Rodgers from The Enterprise Center
Travis Truett from Ambition.com
Tia Capps from Company Lab and GIGTANK
Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman from Center Centre
This week we're talking Mike Bradshaw one of the leading figures behind the Company Lab, one of Chattanooga's most important start-up resources.
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In this series we're talking about cities that were rundown but are re-inventing themselves, as using technology to do so. We're trying to get to the bottom of the questions, "What does it take to turn around a struggling city?" and "Can technology help?"
Our initial focus is on the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and here are all the articles published so far:
Introduction
Ronna-Renee Jackson from the Chattanooga Technology Council
Alex Lavidge from Variable Inc.
Andrew Rodgers from The Enterprise Center
Travis Truett from Ambition.com
Tia Capps from Company Lab and GIGTANK
Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman from Center Centre
This week we're talking Mike Bradshaw one of the leading figures behind the Company Lab, one of Chattanooga's most important start-up resources.
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March 18, 2015
How to Create Custom Layouts in Joomla 3
Layouts are a new feature in Joomla 3 that makes possible to re-use small portions of your design, using template overrides.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create really flexible and re-usable custom layouts.
Follow these 5 steps to become a master of custom layouts.
For the examples in this tutorial we're going to use Breeze, a free template you can download here.
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In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create really flexible and re-usable custom layouts.
Follow these 5 steps to become a master of custom layouts.
For the examples in this tutorial we're going to use Breeze, a free template you can download here.
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Views Calc - Calculations for Your Fields in Views
Views Calc is useful little Drupal module that allows you to perform calculations inside Views.
Views Calc allows you to perform Count, Sum, Average or Minimum calculations on a single field.
Let's see an example of how Views Calc works. To follow the example, you need both the Views and Views Calc modules to be enabled.
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Views Calc allows you to perform Count, Sum, Average or Minimum calculations on a single field.
Let's see an example of how Views Calc works. To follow the example, you need both the Views and Views Calc modules to be enabled.
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Moving from HTML to Joomla: MagLab at Florida State University
Over the last couple of years, the OSTraining team has been working with the team at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab for short) at Florida State University.
MagLab is a research powerhouse with discoveries in physics, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, geochemistry, biochemistry.
But, MagLab was stuck with an old, slow, HTML website. I talked Kristen Coyne who helped their team build a new Joomla site at nationalmaglab.org.
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MagLab is a research powerhouse with discoveries in physics, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, geochemistry, biochemistry.
But, MagLab was stuck with an old, slow, HTML website. I talked Kristen Coyne who helped their team build a new Joomla site at nationalmaglab.org.
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March 17, 2015
On St Patrick's Day, get 50% off lifetime OSTraining access
Today only, on St. Patrick's Day, you can get lifetime access to the Personal plan at OSTraining.
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My Review of WP Rocket - WordPress Caching
Server side site caching has long been a passion of mine. The speed increase for the end user combined with the lowered server resource needs simply make it a no-brainer. You need to be caching your site on the server.
Until last week I’d only worked with free plugins for caching, and been pretty pleased with my favorite, WP Super Cache. Recently however, I’ve been seeing a lot of press about WP Rocket, a plugin that costs $39. It came out about a year ago, we wrote about it back then, and I’ve kept my eye on it to see if it gets any traction. It seems to be growing well, so I did a 3-part video review for OSTraining.
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Until last week I’d only worked with free plugins for caching, and been pretty pleased with my favorite, WP Super Cache. Recently however, I’ve been seeing a lot of press about WP Rocket, a plugin that costs $39. It came out about a year ago, we wrote about it back then, and I’ve kept my eye on it to see if it gets any traction. It seems to be growing well, so I did a 3-part video review for OSTraining.
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