Stephen Burge's Blog, page 144
July 5, 2014
The 20 Most Popular Drupal 7 Modules
One of the most common questions we get from new Drupal users is, "Which modules do people normally use?"
That's a big question, with over 20,000 modules, but some are far more popular than others.
Webchick, one of the Drupal core developers, has used the statistics available on Drupal.org to make a list of the most popular Drupal 7 modules. This is different from the public stats on Drupal.org module pages, which show the popularity of modules across all versions.
Here's an introduction to the 20 most popular Drupal 7 modules:
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That's a big question, with over 20,000 modules, but some are far more popular than others.
Webchick, one of the Drupal core developers, has used the statistics available on Drupal.org to make a list of the most popular Drupal 7 modules. This is different from the public stats on Drupal.org module pages, which show the popularity of modules across all versions.
Here's an introduction to the 20 most popular Drupal 7 modules:
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July 1, 2014
New Books: Drupal Commerce and Zurb Foundation 4
Every month we release one new book for OSTraining members. Except this month.
For July we're releasing two books: "Building E-Commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce" and also "Zurb Foundation 4".
Drupal Commerce has long been one of our most requested topics. Not only are we adding the book this week, but later this month we'll also provide a full video series on Drupal Commerce.
Zurb Foundation is one the most popular CSS frameworks and is commonly compared to Bootstrap, which we've already covered extensively on this site.
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For July we're releasing two books: "Building E-Commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce" and also "Zurb Foundation 4".
Drupal Commerce has long been one of our most requested topics. Not only are we adding the book this week, but later this month we'll also provide a full video series on Drupal Commerce.
Zurb Foundation is one the most popular CSS frameworks and is commonly compared to Bootstrap, which we've already covered extensively on this site.
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Learn to Build a Portfolio Site in WordPress
Creating a website with WordPress can be a very quick and easy process!
In this new series, Topher demonstrates just how quickly you can build a nice portfolio style site with some of the free tools that are available for WordPress.
Topher starts with a brand new WordPress installation. He uses core WordPress features, the JetPack plugin, the Soliloquy slider plugin and a free theme from the ThemeFoundry to build an excellent showcase site.
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In this new series, Topher demonstrates just how quickly you can build a nice portfolio style site with some of the free tools that are available for WordPress.
Topher starts with a brand new WordPress installation. He uses core WordPress features, the JetPack plugin, the Soliloquy slider plugin and a free theme from the ThemeFoundry to build an excellent showcase site.
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June 30, 2014
5 Ways to Add Comments to Ghost
Ghost is a great blogging platform, but does not yet have a built-in commenting system.
Also, Ghost does not yet have an API for plugins, so it doesn't have an obvious way to add comments.
In this tutorial, we'll show you five ways to add comments to your Ghost blog.
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Also, Ghost does not yet have an API for plugins, so it doesn't have an obvious way to add comments.
In this tutorial, we'll show you five ways to add comments to your Ghost blog.
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Build a Portfolio Site in WordPress
Creating a website with WordPress can be a very quick and easy process!
In this new series, Topher demonstrates just how quickly you can build a nice portfolio style site with some of the free tools that are available for WordPress.
Topher starts with a brand new WordPress installation. He uses core WordPress features, the JetPack plugin, the Soliloquy slider plugin and a free theme from the ThemeFoundry to build an excellent showcase site.
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://OSTraining.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
In this new series, Topher demonstrates just how quickly you can build a nice portfolio style site with some of the free tools that are available for WordPress.
Topher starts with a brand new WordPress installation. He uses core WordPress features, the JetPack plugin, the Soliloquy slider plugin and a free theme from the ThemeFoundry to build an excellent showcase site.
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://OSTraining.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
What's in the New OSTraining Design?
Last week we launched a redesign of the OSTraining site.
The original OSTraining site design was launched all the way back 2008. We made some improvements since, but no radical changes.
This year we decided to completely redesign OSTraining and make the entire site mobile-friendly.
The whole process took about 6 weeks from start to finish.
In this post we'll take you through the new site and the tools that made it possible.
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The original OSTraining site design was launched all the way back 2008. We made some improvements since, but no radical changes.
This year we decided to completely redesign OSTraining and make the entire site mobile-friendly.
The whole process took about 6 weeks from start to finish.
In this post we'll take you through the new site and the tools that made it possible.
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://OSTraining.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Join Us at DrupalCamp Colorado in August
DrupalCamp Colorado is taking place on the first weekend of August.
This is going to be a really interesting event. DrupalCamp Colorado is being held at the King Center, right in the heart of downtown Denver.
The camp's theme is "Large Scale Drupal" and they will focus on planning, building, deploying, running, and monitoring big sites.
OSTraining will be there again this year. We're also giving a complete 1-day introduction to Drupal and also a session called "The Absolute Beginners Guide to Views".
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This is going to be a really interesting event. DrupalCamp Colorado is being held at the King Center, right in the heart of downtown Denver.
The camp's theme is "Large Scale Drupal" and they will focus on planning, building, deploying, running, and monitoring big sites.
OSTraining will be there again this year. We're also giving a complete 1-day introduction to Drupal and also a session called "The Absolute Beginners Guide to Views".
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://OSTraining.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Free JoomlaPraise Templates and Extensions
JoomlaPraise is a Joomla company that provided outstanding templates and extensions.
However, the owners of the company recently moved to new jobs with large enterprise-level companies. You can watch one of the owners talk about his experience at Sears.
Producing new extensions and templates is a full-time job and the JoomlaPraise team weren't ready to work 24 hours a day.
Rather than see all that hard work go to waste, OSTraining has agreed to move 5 extensions and 17 templates from JoomlaPraise to OSTraining.com. Even better, everything is now free to download.
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However, the owners of the company recently moved to new jobs with large enterprise-level companies. You can watch one of the owners talk about his experience at Sears.
Producing new extensions and templates is a full-time job and the JoomlaPraise team weren't ready to work 24 hours a day.
Rather than see all that hard work go to waste, OSTraining has agreed to move 5 extensions and 17 templates from JoomlaPraise to OSTraining.com. Even better, everything is now free to download.
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://OSTraining.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
June 22, 2014
Learn Drupal's Rate Module
Drupal has several excellent modules for rating content. The Rate module is one of the very best.
In this new 12-video class on the Rate module, Brian will explore the ins-and-outs of the Rate module, and use it to add rating widgets to nodes and comments.
Brian also shows how Rate integrates with Views so that you can create lists of your most popular or unpopular content.
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In this new 12-video class on the Rate module, Brian will explore the ins-and-outs of the Rate module, and use it to add rating widgets to nodes and comments.
Brian also shows how Rate integrates with Views so that you can create lists of your most popular or unpopular content.
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June 20, 2014
Social Networking Extensions for Joomla
Alex Andreae is a experienced Joomla developer who focuses on social apps.
In this talk, he introduces you to the complete world of social tools.
Alex covers social network authentication, share buttons, comments, Facebook Open Graph, Twitter Cards, Google Structured data and more.
Alex explains the purpose of these different tools and explains how you can utilize social networks to promote your site.
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In this talk, he introduces you to the complete world of social tools.
Alex covers social network authentication, share buttons, comments, Facebook Open Graph, Twitter Cards, Google Structured data and more.
Alex explains the purpose of these different tools and explains how you can utilize social networks to promote your site.
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