Stephen Burge's Blog, page 149
May 26, 2014
A Beginners Guide to Browser Caching
Is your website running slowly? Does your site have a lot of repeat visitors? Browser caching is one tool to help your site load much more quickly.
Every time someone looks at a page or an image the browser keeps a copy of it. Then if you request that page again within a certain amount of time, rather than run out to the internet to grab a new copy, it just gives you the locally saved version. This make the internet feel much faster.
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Every time someone looks at a page or an image the browser keeps a copy of it. Then if you request that page again within a certain amount of time, rather than run out to the internet to grab a new copy, it just gives you the locally saved version. This make the internet feel much faster.
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Display Tweets in Joomla with SP Tweets
We often get questions from OSTraining members wondering how to show tweets on their site.
Twitter doesn't make it particularly easy to do this. Certainly there are no YouTube-style embed codes for multiple tweets.
For Joomla sites, we recommend the SP Tweet extension to make the process easier.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how use SP Tweet to automatically display your tweets inside a module.
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Twitter doesn't make it particularly easy to do this. Certainly there are no YouTube-style embed codes for multiple tweets.
For Joomla sites, we recommend the SP Tweet extension to make the process easier.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how use SP Tweet to automatically display your tweets inside a module.
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May 20, 2014
4 Videos to Get Anyone Started With Hikashop
HikaShop is our favorite Joomla shopping cart for Joomla.
HikaShop is fully integrated with Joomla and you can get started very quickly. However, if you need a powerful shopping cart with complex features, Hikashop can do that too.
In this tutorial, we have four videos to get you up and running with Hikashop.
If you want to go further, we have a 20 video training class on Hikashop.
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HikaShop is fully integrated with Joomla and you can get started very quickly. However, if you need a powerful shopping cart with complex features, Hikashop can do that too.
In this tutorial, we have four videos to get you up and running with Hikashop.
If you want to go further, we have a 20 video training class on Hikashop.
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Automatic Updates for WordPress Plugins and Themes
One thing I love about WordPress are the easy updates.
WordPress recently introduced automatic updates for minor releases of the WordPress core. The ultimate goal is for WordPress to always update automatically so users never even realize that WordPress has updated.
Well, did you know that not only the WordPress core, but also plugins and themes can update automatically? This tutorial will show you how to enable that feature.
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WordPress recently introduced automatic updates for minor releases of the WordPress core. The ultimate goal is for WordPress to always update automatically so users never even realize that WordPress has updated.
Well, did you know that not only the WordPress core, but also plugins and themes can update automatically? This tutorial will show you how to enable that feature.
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Load Modules inside Joomla Menus
It's very common on websites to put the features inside menus.
Many sites put the search box, a login form or even advertisements inside their menu.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how do that in Joomla without any coding.
We're going to use an extension called Modules Anywhere to place a search box inside a menu without any coding.
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Many sites put the search box, a login form or even advertisements inside their menu.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how do that in Joomla without any coding.
We're going to use an extension called Modules Anywhere to place a search box inside a menu without any coding.
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Add CSS Style to Drupal Views
This week one our OSTraining members was working with the Views module.
They were able to create views, but weren't sure how to improve their design.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to apply CSS to your views so you can add both color and width.
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They were able to create views, but weren't sure how to improve their design.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to apply CSS to your views so you can add both color and width.
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OSRegister - A Joomla Registration Module
Although training is our primary focus at OSTraining, we also like publishing simple-to-use extensions for our members.
Today we're releasing OSRegister, which makes it easy to display a registration form anywhere on your Joomla site.
OSRegister allows you to place a registration form inside a module.
OSRegister can be easily configured to hide itself from users who are already registered.
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Today we're releasing OSRegister, which makes it easy to display a registration form anywhere on your Joomla site.
OSRegister allows you to place a registration form inside a module.
OSRegister can be easily configured to hide itself from users who are already registered.
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May 18, 2014
Learn How To Speed Up Your WordPress Site
One of the most important aspects of a great website is speed. In our new course, Speeding Up WordPress, Topher helps us do just that.
Topher covers these topics ...
WP SuperCache
image sizing
.htaccess tricks
... and much more in this very helpful course.
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Topher covers these topics ...
WP SuperCache
image sizing
.htaccess tricks
... and much more in this very helpful course.
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May 12, 2014
Calendar Layouts in Drupal Using FullCalendar
If you need a calendar on your Drupal site, you can choose between two great options: the Calendar module or the FullCalendar module.
It provides a Views display, style and row plugin for displaying nodes using Adam Shaw's FullCalendar jQuery plugin.
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It provides a Views display, style and row plugin for displaying nodes using Adam Shaw's FullCalendar jQuery plugin.
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May 10, 2014
Publish and Unpublish Dates for Drupal Content
One feature that is common with other software but missing with Drupal is the ability to schedule content.
The Scheduler module fills in this gap by allowing you to create content and have it published and unpublished on any day and time you choose.
These three videos will give you a great introduction to using Scheduler.
These videos are part of a complete class on Scheduler.
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The Scheduler module fills in this gap by allowing you to create content and have it published and unpublished on any day and time you choose.
These three videos will give you a great introduction to using Scheduler.
These videos are part of a complete class on Scheduler.
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