Stephen Burge's Blog, page 39
February 26, 2018
How to Create a Responsive Off-canvas Menu in Drupal 8
An off-canvas menu is the best way to offer a pleasant experience to those visiting your site from mobile devices. It is rapidly becoming a web design industry standard for any website.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and configure an off-canvas menu with the "Responsive and off canvas menu" Drupal 8 module.
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and configure an off-canvas menu with the "Responsive and off canvas menu" Drupal 8 module.
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How to Create Responsive Off-canvas Menu in Drupal 8
An off-canvas menu is the best way to offer a pleasant experience to those visiting your site from mobile devices. It is rapidly becoming a web design industry standard for any website.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and configure an off-canvas menu with the "Responsive and off canvas menu" Drupal 8 module.
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and configure an off-canvas menu with the "Responsive and off canvas menu" Drupal 8 module.
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February 22, 2018
How to Use the New Media Module Features in Drupal
Since the release of Drupal 8.4 in late 2017, Drupal has contained new media handling features.
For many years, Drupal has shipped with almost no media handling. This was the most commonly requested feature whenever we did Drupal training.
In this tutorial, we'll walk you through how to use Drupal's new media options. We'll update this post as soon as Drupal 8.5 is available.
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For many years, Drupal has shipped with almost no media handling. This was the most commonly requested feature whenever we did Drupal training.
In this tutorial, we'll walk you through how to use Drupal's new media options. We'll update this post as soon as Drupal 8.5 is available.
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Check Out the New Page Builder in Drupal 8.5!
The Release Candiate version of Drupal 8.5 was released today.
At this point we can see the final features that will be in the official release of 8.5 on March 7.
In this blog post, I'll give you an introduction to 3 of the main new features you can look forward to in 8.5.
This is "Day 1" post giving my quick reactions. We'll improve and expand on this post in the days before the final release.
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At this point we can see the final features that will be in the official release of 8.5 on March 7.
In this blog post, I'll give you an introduction to 3 of the main new features you can look forward to in 8.5.
This is "Day 1" post giving my quick reactions. We'll improve and expand on this post in the days before the final release.
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February 20, 2018
The WordPress Explained Book is Here
Do you need to build a WordPress site?
If you do, we have the book you need. The "WordPress Explained" book is available today.
This book teaches you everything you need to know to make a WordPress site. And, it does it in plain English, with a simple step-by-step approach.
WordPress Explained is available in ebook for OSTraining Book Club members and also on Amazon.
WordPress is an amazingly powerful system, but many newcomers can find it overwhelming. We wrote this book to make WordPress as simple and straight-forward as possible.
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If you do, we have the book you need. The "WordPress Explained" book is available today.
This book teaches you everything you need to know to make a WordPress site. And, it does it in plain English, with a simple step-by-step approach.
WordPress Explained is available in ebook for OSTraining Book Club members and also on Amazon.
WordPress is an amazingly powerful system, but many newcomers can find it overwhelming. We wrote this book to make WordPress as simple and straight-forward as possible.
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February 18, 2018
Fabrik and Custom Joomla User Registration Forms
Fabrik is a wonderfully powerful and flexible Joomla extension. In a previous tutorial, we showed you how to use Fabrik to create a contact form.
In this post, you are going to use Fabrik to create your own Joomla user registration form.
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In this post, you are going to use Fabrik to create your own Joomla user registration form.
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February 16, 2018
How to Install Linux Xubuntu Under Your Windows OS
Do you have to reboot your computer to switch it between Windows and Linux now and then? Then you know that those reboots slow down your productivity.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install a Linux operating system Xubuntu under your Windows OS using VirtualBox and save yourself some time.
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to install a Linux operating system Xubuntu under your Windows OS using VirtualBox and save yourself some time.
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February 15, 2018
How to Solve Error #1045 in phpMyAdmin
After installing a local WAMP server and trying to access your phpMyAdmin, you may encounter the error:
#1045 Access Denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
This may happen if your root@localhost database user was not granted the necessary rights to access the database. Or if you provided a wrong password.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to solve this error for the WAMP local server using phpMyAdmin.
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#1045 Access Denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
This may happen if your root@localhost database user was not granted the necessary rights to access the database. Or if you provided a wrong password.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to solve this error for the WAMP local server using phpMyAdmin.
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February 14, 2018
How to Handle Spam in WordPress without a Captcha
Spam is more than an irritation. It can reduce your productivity. Sometimes the spam prevention can be as bad as the spam itself, making your visitors spot similar images, do maths sums or answer questions to prove that they are human.
This can put people off interacting with your website. Fortunately, WordPress has plugins that can handle spam transparently, without creating irritation to either you or your visitors. In this blog post, you will take a look at two of them.
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This can put people off interacting with your website. Fortunately, WordPress has plugins that can handle spam transparently, without creating irritation to either you or your visitors. In this blog post, you will take a look at two of them.
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The OSTraining Podcast #18: Nick Croft and the Genesis Framework
Nick Croft has just published the "Genesis Explained" book which is a developers guide to the most popular theme framework in WordPress.
Nick worked as full-time support person for Genesis, before moving on to work as a developer on the framework. He later became a SaaS architect for the Rainmaker Platform, built on Genesis. Even before he literally wrote the book, he wrote the figurative book on Genesis. Nick is also a core contributor to Genesis and has multiple, popular Genesis plugins.
Follow Nick on Twitter at @nick_thegeek and check out his personal site at NickGeek.com.
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Nick worked as full-time support person for Genesis, before moving on to work as a developer on the framework. He later became a SaaS architect for the Rainmaker Platform, built on Genesis. Even before he literally wrote the book, he wrote the figurative book on Genesis. Nick is also a core contributor to Genesis and has multiple, popular Genesis plugins.
Follow Nick on Twitter at @nick_thegeek and check out his personal site at NickGeek.com.
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