Stephen Burge's Blog, page 140
November 2, 2014
New Video Class: Build a WordPress Restaurant Site
In our new video class, "Build a Restaurant Site", Topher teaches you how to use WordPress to create a tasteful restaurant website.
Topher uses the Make theme, plus the Restaurant plugin to create a mouth-watering website.
This is our third WordPress class that focuses on practical, real-world examples. We also have classes on building Portfolio and Real Estate sites.
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Topher uses the Make theme, plus the Restaurant plugin to create a mouth-watering website.
This is our third WordPress class that focuses on practical, real-world examples. We also have classes on building Portfolio and Real Estate sites.
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New Video Class: Drupal LoginToboggan
The LoginToboggan module offers several useful improvements to the Drupal login system.
In our new video class, "the Drupal LoginToboggan Module", Brian shows us how to use LoginToboggan.
LoginToboggan allows you to improve your site experience in several ways such as allowing user to login using their email address and sending them a welcome email when they join.
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In our new video class, "the Drupal LoginToboggan Module", Brian shows us how to use LoginToboggan.
LoginToboggan allows you to improve your site experience in several ways such as allowing user to login using their email address and sending them a welcome email when they join.
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An Apology to Brian Teeman
This week, I messed up badly and owe an apology.
I published two video classes that were created by Brian Teeman.
I took Brian’s name, copyright photo and copyright biography and put them on those video classes as the teacher. I didn’t have permission to do that.
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I published two video classes that were created by Brian Teeman.
I took Brian’s name, copyright photo and copyright biography and put them on those video classes as the teacher. I didn’t have permission to do that.
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8 Things to Know About the Drupal Security Issue
By now you've probably heard about the extremely serious Drupal security issue from mid-October.
The Drupal security team issued a new warning two weeks later that, if possible, escalated the severity of the issue.
Here's an overview of the issue and its impact.
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The Drupal security team issued a new warning two weeks later that, if possible, escalated the severity of the issue.
Here's an overview of the issue and its impact.
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November 1, 2014
See You at the Joomla World Conference?
The Joomla team are doing something really different with this year's Joomla World Conference.
Instead of being stuck in a cavernous venue with people spread over dozens of different hotels, the team chose a different and more intimate route.
This week's Joomla World Conference is being held a resort in Cancun, Mexico and almost everyone will be staying at the venue. Hopefully this will make for a more social and collaborative conference.
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Instead of being stuck in a cavernous venue with people spread over dozens of different hotels, the team chose a different and more intimate route.
This week's Joomla World Conference is being held a resort in Cancun, Mexico and almost everyone will be staying at the venue. Hopefully this will make for a more social and collaborative conference.
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October 31, 2014
Auto-Update or Die
One of the really interesting and scary things about this month's Drupal issue is how fast the hackers moved.
Hackers moved faster than the vast majority of site-owners could respond.
It took a lot of courage for the security team to say this, but anyone whose site didn't update between 4 pm and 11 pm UTC (London time) on October 15th should assume they were hacked. That timeframe is outside of normal working hours for everyone from Paris to Tokyo.
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Hackers moved faster than the vast majority of site-owners could respond.
It took a lot of courage for the security team to say this, but anyone whose site didn't update between 4 pm and 11 pm UTC (London time) on October 15th should assume they were hacked. That timeframe is outside of normal working hours for everyone from Paris to Tokyo.
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October 29, 2014
How to Check Your Drupal Site Security
If you weren't able to update your Drupal site within a few hours on October 15th, you may be worried about your site.
Even under normal conditions, it's almost never possible to prove that a site is 100% safe.
But by checking your site, you can either give yourself some additional peace of mind, or you can confirm that you were hacked.
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Even under normal conditions, it's almost never possible to prove that a site is 100% safe.
But by checking your site, you can either give yourself some additional peace of mind, or you can confirm that you were hacked.
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October 27, 2014
Node Gallery: The Easiest Drupal Photo Gallery
We have several different Drupal photo gallery tutorials on this blog. The most popular is Views Photo Galleries for Drupal 7, followed closely by an older tutorial, Node Gallery for Drupal 6.
However, although Views is powerful, it is too complex for many users. For this reason, Node Gallery remains very popular.
So we've realized that it's time for an updated tutorial that covers Node Gallery in Drupal 7.
Node Gallery is still the easiest way to build a photo gallery in Drupal. It requires very little set-up and almost no configuration.
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However, although Views is powerful, it is too complex for many users. For this reason, Node Gallery remains very popular.
So we've realized that it's time for an updated tutorial that covers Node Gallery in Drupal 7.
Node Gallery is still the easiest way to build a photo gallery in Drupal. It requires very little set-up and almost no configuration.
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October 26, 2014
Two Free Tickets for DrupalCamp Ohio
Rod Martin, our Director of Training, is going back to DrupalCamp Ohio and he'd love to meet you there.
DrupalCamp Ohio is being held again at Ohio State University, which uses Drupal for many sites.
OSTraining is sponsoring the camp, and Rod will be presenting a session for the 4th year in a row. Rod's presentation is called the Absolute Beginners Guide to Drupal.
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DrupalCamp Ohio is being held again at Ohio State University, which uses Drupal for many sites.
OSTraining is sponsoring the camp, and Rod will be presenting a session for the 4th year in a row. Rod's presentation is called the Absolute Beginners Guide to Drupal.
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October 22, 2014
Re-name Your WordPress Login Area
One of the most common ways that people attack WordPress sites is via the wp-login.php file.
Hackers try a "brute force attack" where they simply go to your login page and try to login as many times as they can. They try to login to your site using a masterlist of common usernames and passwords.
Every time they access that login page it adds stress to your server. If they're accessing the page multiple times per second, it can significantly slow or even crash your site.
In this video, Topher shows you how to solve this problem via a plugin called "Rename wp-login.php".
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Hackers try a "brute force attack" where they simply go to your login page and try to login as many times as they can. They try to login to your site using a masterlist of common usernames and passwords.
Every time they access that login page it adds stress to your server. If they're accessing the page multiple times per second, it can significantly slow or even crash your site.
In this video, Topher shows you how to solve this problem via a plugin called "Rename wp-login.php".
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