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Development Aids in Drupal with Coffee and Admin Toolbar

Sometimes, when developing a site with many content types, it can happen that your Drupal system may slow down “a little bit”. In most cases, that has nothing to do with Drupal itself, but it lies in the lack of resources of your local environment.

In those cases, it helps to save time by avoiding one or two clicks (that implies one or two page-loads) on the backend of your Drupal site.

The Drupal Coffee module provides a floating text box, which filters the results of the backend menus, according to the user’s input, whereas the Admin Toolbar module turns the default Drupal Toolbar into a dropdown menu.

Keep reading, to learn how to use these modules!



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OSTips - How to Personalize the Subject Line in Your Emails in Mautic

One of the things that's going to get your emails opened by people is if they see their own name in the subject line.

Well with Mautic, you can do that.

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OSTips-The Drupal Scheduler Module

I've never understood why you can't schedule the publication or unpublish a node in Drupal. WordPress does it. Joomla does it. Well guess what - Drupal does it too!

In this video, I'm going to show you how to use the scheduler module to publish and unpublished nodes on your schedule. Now, you won't have to go to work at midnight on Friday night!

Let's go.



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OSTips-Enforcing Strong Passwords in WordPress

In this video, I'm going to show you how you to enforce strong passwords in your WordPress site.

Weak passwords are probably the number one way your site is gonna get hacked, and you've no control of that once you hand that account over to a user.

Well not anymore. Let's go.



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OSTips-How To Easily Replace Media In Drupal 8

One of the great things about Drupal's new media manager is the ability to easily see all the media you're using on your website.

What if you want to replace one of those images or even more likely a PDF that needs to be updated?

Well in this OSTip, I'm going to show you how.

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OSTips-Speed Up Creating WordPress Posts & Pages

in this episode, I'm gonna help you make creating your WordPress posts and pages go even faster. If you're like me, you love the new Gutenberg editor.  Being able to drag and drop all of those different elements into a post or a page is really really easy, but if I'm creating the same kind of content over and over again like a blog with the same layout - say an image, then a paragraph, then a heading,  another paragraph, and then maybe a quote or however you want to basically always create your posts or pages, all that dragging and dropping is really a hassle. 

I'm gonna show you two really simple ways to make that go a whole lot faster: 1) reusable blocks, or 2) a simple plugin.  

Let's go!



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Back to the Basics: HTML Padding & Margins

We are going to go back to basics and are going to talk about margin and padding properties again, expanding on a previous post by Valentin Garcia.

When we start styling a HTML element with CSS it is treated like a box by default. Border, margin, and padding are properties that affect the appearance of the box’s edges. Very simply, margin is the area on the outside of a box’s border and padding is the area on the inside of a border. The purpose, mostly, is to add space between elements for better design and readability.

Ready to dig in? Let's get started.



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OSTips - Build Your Own Digital Asset Management System in Drupal

You can create your own Digital Asset Management System right inside your Drupal 8 website using nothing but core modules.  Watch our video and learn how!



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How to Use the Recaptcha Module in Drupal 8

The reCAPTCHA module for Drupal 8 integrates the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google with your Drupal site. This service provides additional protection by detecting if the user accessing your site is a real person or a robot. 

Keep reading to learn how to use this module!



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How to Add a Table of Contents to Your WordPress Posts and Pages

Long articles often discourage users from reading the whole text. As a matter of fact, we are all used to scanning over text instead of reading it, when navigating over the web. 

This generally happens because you are searching for some punctual information when you access the internet. 

A table of contents at the beginning of the article proves to be useful in these cases. The LuckyWP Table of Contents plugin for WordPress provides this type of functionality. 

Keep reading to learn how to use this plugin!



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