Stephen Burge's Blog, page 60
February 9, 2017
Build a Responsive Colorbox Gallery in Drupal 8 (With Overlay Captions)
An OSTraining member asked how to make a gallery with Colorbox in Drupal 8.
We're going to walk you through the process of creating a beautiful Colorbox gallery with text overlaying the images.
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We're going to walk you through the process of creating a beautiful Colorbox gallery with text overlaying the images.
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February 6, 2017
What's Your Favorite WordPress Contact Form?
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We're running a competition on YouTube, and entering is dead simple.
Simply click here and visit this video on contact forms in WordPress.
In the comments under that video, answer this question:
What is your favorite WordPress contact form plugin?
Do you use NinjaForms, Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Formidable, WP Forms, or something else?
One lucky commenter will be chosen at random to receive a one-year subscription to OSTraining.com. Be sure to like, subscribe and comment.
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We're running a competition on YouTube, and entering is dead simple.
Simply click here and visit this video on contact forms in WordPress.
In the comments under that video, answer this question:
What is your favorite WordPress contact form plugin?
Do you use NinjaForms, Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Formidable, WP Forms, or something else?
One lucky commenter will be chosen at random to receive a one-year subscription to OSTraining.com. Be sure to like, subscribe and comment.
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What's Your Favorite WordPress Contact Form? Answer and Win a Free Year at OSTraining!
Want to win a one-year subscription to OSTraining?
We're running a competition on YouTube, and entering is dead simple
Simply click here and visit this video on contact forms options with WordPress.
In the comments under that video, answer this question:
What is your favorite WordPress contact form plugin?
Do you use NinjaForms, Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Formidable, WP Forms, or something else?
One lucky commenter will be chosen at random to receive a one-year subscription to OSTraining.com. Be sure to like, subscribe and comment.
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We're running a competition on YouTube, and entering is dead simple
Simply click here and visit this video on contact forms options with WordPress.
In the comments under that video, answer this question:
What is your favorite WordPress contact form plugin?
Do you use NinjaForms, Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Formidable, WP Forms, or something else?
One lucky commenter will be chosen at random to receive a one-year subscription to OSTraining.com. Be sure to like, subscribe and comment.
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February 2, 2017
How to Add a Custom Favicon in Joomla
This tutorial will show you how to add a custom favicon to your Joomla site.
Your first question might be what is a favicon? Favicon stands for favorite’s icon. It is a small 16px x 16px icon associated with a URL that is variously displayed, as in a browser's address bar or next to the site name in a bookmark or favorites list.
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Your first question might be what is a favicon? Favicon stands for favorite’s icon. It is a small 16px x 16px icon associated with a URL that is variously displayed, as in a browser's address bar or next to the site name in a bookmark or favorites list.
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February 1, 2017
New Classes: The Absolute Beginners Guide to Podcasting
Podcasting is exploding in popularity and can be a great way to drive awareness and revenue for your business.
Today, we're delighted to launch a new series, "The Absolute Beginners Guide to Podcasting".
Theses classes cover preparation, equipment, production, editing and publishing your podcast. This really is the best guide to podcasting you'll find anywhere.
The class is taught by Jeff Large, who has hosted several successful podcasts for himself, and for clients. Watch these videos, follow along with Jeff, and you'll get an easy-to-understand introduction to every aspect of running a podcast.
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Today, we're delighted to launch a new series, "The Absolute Beginners Guide to Podcasting".
Theses classes cover preparation, equipment, production, editing and publishing your podcast. This really is the best guide to podcasting you'll find anywhere.
The class is taught by Jeff Large, who has hosted several successful podcasts for himself, and for clients. Watch these videos, follow along with Jeff, and you'll get an easy-to-understand introduction to every aspect of running a podcast.
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5 Ways to Tell if a Site is Built in Drupal
One of the most common questions we get at Drupal beginner classes is, "How can I tell if a site is built in Drupal?"
We get that question because it's just not possible to know the answer without a few tips and tricks.
If you look at a website such as WhiteHouse.gov, there is no way of telling if it's built Drupal. The design of a site is completely independent from the platform it uses.
We're going to give you 5 ways to tell if a site is built in Drupal. Not all of these suggestions will work on all Drupal sites, but taken together they should give you a clear answer.
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We get that question because it's just not possible to know the answer without a few tips and tricks.
If you look at a website such as WhiteHouse.gov, there is no way of telling if it's built Drupal. The design of a site is completely independent from the platform it uses.
We're going to give you 5 ways to tell if a site is built in Drupal. Not all of these suggestions will work on all Drupal sites, but taken together they should give you a clear answer.
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Show Drupal 8 Content in Tabs, Using Views
One of our OSTraining members asked how best to make a tabbed view of content in Drupal 8. We already have a whole class on tabs in Drupal 7, but D8 works differently.
For this tutorial, I used 2 content types: "Article" and "News". We are going to show the Articles in one tab, and the News in a second tab.
In Drupal 8, you can make tabs without using any extra modules at all.
As a tip, I used the Devel module to create some dummy content for this exercise. You don't have to do this, but Devel always make it easy to test content-heavy tasks.
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For this tutorial, I used 2 content types: "Article" and "News". We are going to show the Articles in one tab, and the News in a second tab.
In Drupal 8, you can make tabs without using any extra modules at all.
As a tip, I used the Devel module to create some dummy content for this exercise. You don't have to do this, but Devel always make it easy to test content-heavy tasks.
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January 31, 2017
Disable a WordPress Plugin Without Access to Your Admin Area
Normally, disabling a WordPress plugin is very simple and straightforward.
How easy? You can login to your admin area, click the "Plugins" tab and click "Deactivate" next to the plugin.
You can see an example below with Google Analytics.
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How easy? You can login to your admin area, click the "Plugins" tab and click "Deactivate" next to the plugin.
You can see an example below with Google Analytics.
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RunCloud is an Easy Way to Manage Servers
RunCloud is a modern web server panel designed purposely for PHP web applications. If you use any of these, then RunCloud is for you:
Laravel
Code Igniter
Cake
WordPress
CMS
a custom baked PHP application
Being a SaaS (Software as a Service) control panel for cloud servers / VPS, you can have your server managed by using RunCloud. Dedicated servers, Digital Ocean, Linode, AWS, Vultr, Amazon Lightsail, and other KVM based VPSs are supported by RunCloud.
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Laravel
Code Igniter
Cake
WordPress
CMS
a custom baked PHP application
Being a SaaS (Software as a Service) control panel for cloud servers / VPS, you can have your server managed by using RunCloud. Dedicated servers, Digital Ocean, Linode, AWS, Vultr, Amazon Lightsail, and other KVM based VPSs are supported by RunCloud.
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January 28, 2017
How to Install Free SSL Certificates With Let's Encrypt and cPanel
Back in 2015, Let's Encrypt launched with the goal of providing free SSL certificates to any site that wanted on.
Just over a year later, and they are succeeding in a big way with millions of sites using their SSL.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use Let's Encrypt for your site. This tutorial uses hosting from Rochen.com, our hosting partner.
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Just over a year later, and they are succeeding in a big way with millions of sites using their SSL.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use Let's Encrypt for your site. This tutorial uses hosting from Rochen.com, our hosting partner.
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