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Big Orange Heart - Supporting Remote Workers

We are excited to be a sponsor for the online, WordFest Live event this year! And, we'll write more about the event in upcoming blog posts, but in this first post, we wanted to spread the word about Big Orange Heart, the non-profit organization behind this free, global WordPress event.

The proceeds from the event will go to help support the organization's delivery of their services - services that since the pandemic have become even more needed worldwide.



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Build Online Courses With WordPress

Millions of people around the world have lost their jobs in 2020, forced to stay at home, taking their knowledge and wisdom with them. In many cases, these people (maybe you?) could build an online course teaching the skills and knowledge you have. You can provide other people with skills they can use to better their own life, and make enough money yourself to not only weather 2020, but perhaps build a long term business.

To be clear, this isn’t working for someone else or being paid by an employer, but rather building something yourself leveraging what you already know. 

There are already hundreds of stories of people like Yoga instructors making courses and videos at home and selling access to them. Stylists, makeup artists, welders, cabinet makers; people from all walks of life can build their own website and teach what they already know.

This post will give you some real world examples of how people have built their own sites, and then show you what tools they used, so you...



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Make Images Backgrounds using CSS

We have a previous blog on how to make images background using CSS by Valentin Garcia, but we wanted to update and expand upon the topic.

In this post, we’ll talk about the background-size property and explore some other nifty background image properties that can help with our design.

Let's get started!



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Theme and Plugin Dependencies in WordPress with TGM Plugin Activation

There are many tasks in WordPress that are extremely repetitive. Things that get coded over and over again by developers, even though the result is the same every time.

Custom Post Types are a perfect example. The code to make them is the same in the end, it’s the settings that change each time. Taxonomies and meta boxes are similar. This is why tools like GenerateWP exist. You can simply fill out a form and get a fully functioning code block.

Another way to manage this kind of code is with a library. A library is a piece of code that knows how to generate that code the same way every time, accepting only a few settings to build what you want.

Following the Custom Post Types thread, there’s an excellent PHP Library from John Blackbourn called Extended CPTs. If you include it with your plugin or theme, you can simply add a few lines of code and get a full Custom Post Type. It can also handle Taxonomies. Another great example is meta boxes. They can be quite complicated, but a...



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OSTips - Create a Drupal Site Copy in Acquia’s DevDesktop

So you're working away on your Drupal site using Acquia’s DevDesktop just like we do here at OSTraining, and you want to take a snapshot of your site to use for another project. Or maybe you just want to keep a backup of it at a certain state in your Drupal site development.

In this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to create Drupal site copy in Acquia’s DevDesktop.  It's really simple. 

Let's get to It.



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Create an XML Sitemap for Your WordPress Site

You are online because you want to be found by people over the internet. That is an assumption. However, it applies to most cases. 

To be found over the internet, your site has (is almost obligated) to be registered on at least one search engine - Google being the most important one.

You have to create an XML sitemap for your WordPress site and submit it to Google. There is a Google XML SItemaps plugin which accomplishes this task in a very user-friendly way.

Keep reading to learn how to use this plugin!



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OSTips - Changing the Default Editor in FileZilla

Today we're going to talk about Filezilla, and a really cool little trick that'll make your life much easier.

So have you been in Filezilla trying to edit your files whether they're php files or text files, and it always opens up in Notepad? It's really frustrating to find things, because there's no color coding.  Maybe you would prefer TextWrangler or Sublime.

Well, you can change that Notepad default inside of Filezilla so that it always opens up in your preferred editor. It'll only take you a few seconds to do this, and in this video I show you how.

Let's take a look.



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OSTips - Check Modules and Themes for Move to Drupal 9

We all know that Drupal 9 is here, but is your site ready?

In this video, I'm going to share with you 3 ways to check to see if your modules and themes are ready to move to Drupal 9.

Alright, let's go.






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OSTips - Which Form Should You Choose in Mautic

One of the questions I get every once in a while when I'm creating a form in Mautic to embed on my website is which form type should I choose. 

In this video, I'm going to answer that question. It's actually a pretty simple answer.

Let's dive in.






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OSTips - How to Hide the Login Page On Your WordPress Site

One of the ways hackers and bots try to break your WordPress site is by going to /login and hammering away at the login screen. We can fix that by learning to hide the login page on your WordPress site.


 
In this video, we're going to show you how to use a simple plugin to completely change the login url to your WordPress site.


 
Let's do it!





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