Stephen Burge's Blog, page 63
January 10, 2017
How to Install WordPress Themes
This tutorial will show you how to install a WordPress theme. This guide is intended for absolute WordPress beginners and those wanting to make sure they did it right.
The first half of this guide will talk about free themes from WordPress.org. Scroll down the page for a guide to installing commercial themes.
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The first half of this guide will talk about free themes from WordPress.org. Scroll down the page for a guide to installing commercial themes.
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The Easy Way to Submit Your Sitemap to Search Engines
This tutorial will show you an easy way to submit your sitemap to multiple search engines.
It's a bit of an obscure method, although it's well documented. We'll edit the robots.txt file to insert one line of code. And that's it. An account isn't needed and it's supported by Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask.
Let's get started ...
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It's a bit of an obscure method, although it's well documented. We'll edit the robots.txt file to insert one line of code. And that's it. An account isn't needed and it's supported by Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask.
Let's get started ...
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January 4, 2017
How to Create a Contact Form in Joomla
This tutorial will show you how to create a contact form in Joomla.
We'll use the default Contacts components so you won't need to install any extra extensions.
We're going to start off with a video guide, and there's also a text and image tutorial below.
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We'll use the default Contacts components so you won't need to install any extra extensions.
We're going to start off with a video guide, and there's also a text and image tutorial below.
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January 3, 2017
How to Update Drupal 8 Sites
Throughout the life of your Drupal site, you'll have to perform updates. New features, bug fixes and security patches will be released for Drupal itself, plus modules and themes. This process is essential to maintain a healthy Drupal site.
We're going to take you through the steps needed to update your Drupal sites. Watch the following 5 videos below, and you'll keep your Drupal 8 running on the latest version.
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We're going to take you through the steps needed to update your Drupal sites. Watch the following 5 videos below, and you'll keep your Drupal 8 running on the latest version.
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January 2, 2017
When is Drupal 7 End-of-Life?
So Drupal 8 is here and that has a significant impact on Drupal 7 users. Drupal 7 is no longer the latest and greatest version.
One question we often get now is this:
When will Drupal 7 reach end-of-life and no longer be supported?
The simple answer is, "We don't know".
The longer answer is, "We can have a good guess". That's what this blog post is about. We hope to give you more details so you can plan for the future of your Drupal 7 site.
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One question we often get now is this:
When will Drupal 7 reach end-of-life and no longer be supported?
The simple answer is, "We don't know".
The longer answer is, "We can have a good guess". That's what this blog post is about. We hope to give you more details so you can plan for the future of your Drupal 7 site.
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New Class: How to Use the UIkit Design Framework
UIkit is a lightweight and modular front-end framework, developed by YooTheme, who are also famous for their Joomla and WordPress designs.
UIkit is a standalone framework that doesn't rely on any particular CMS. UIkit gives you a comprehensive collection of HTML, CSS, and JS components which is simple to use, easy to customize and extendable.
This week's new class is "How to Use the UIkit Design Framework". Follow along with these videos. You'll take a non-responsive HTML website and convert it into a powerful, responsive, grid-based design.
We recently published classes on two more popular design frameworks, Bootstrap, and Zurb, so you'll be able to easily compare these design frameworks.
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UIkit is a standalone framework that doesn't rely on any particular CMS. UIkit gives you a comprehensive collection of HTML, CSS, and JS components which is simple to use, easy to customize and extendable.
This week's new class is "How to Use the UIkit Design Framework". Follow along with these videos. You'll take a non-responsive HTML website and convert it into a powerful, responsive, grid-based design.
We recently published classes on two more popular design frameworks, Bootstrap, and Zurb, so you'll be able to easily compare these design frameworks.
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December 31, 2016
How to Embed YouTube Videos in Joomla
Update: This blog post recommends OSYouTube. We also highly recommend the OSEmbed extension for embedding multimedia in Joomla.
OSEmbed is the easiest way to embed anything in Joomla. You can add YouTube videos with just a URL. Plus you can also add Facebook posts, Twitter tweets, Flickr images, Vimeo videos and over 60 other types of media.
What's the difference between OSEmbed and OSYouTube? Quite simply, OSEmbed supports more sources, whereas OSYouTube has more YouTube-specific features.
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OSEmbed is the easiest way to embed anything in Joomla. You can add YouTube videos with just a URL. Plus you can also add Facebook posts, Twitter tweets, Flickr images, Vimeo videos and over 60 other types of media.
What's the difference between OSEmbed and OSYouTube? Quite simply, OSEmbed supports more sources, whereas OSYouTube has more YouTube-specific features.
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December 29, 2016
Joomla 3 Sample Data: What Are the Options?
When you install a Joomla site you get a lot of options for sample data. These can be very useful if you are new to Joomla, or setting up a site quickly.
With Joomla, you have 6 different sample data options, and we're going to explain what they all do.
When you get to the final step of the Joomla 3 installation process, you'll see these 6 options:
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With Joomla, you have 6 different sample data options, and we're going to explain what they all do.
When you get to the final step of the Joomla 3 installation process, you'll see these 6 options:
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December 28, 2016
How to Add Social Bookmark Links to Joomla
Almost every website builder wants to make it easy for visitors to find them on social media.
With the Easy Social Icons module all your articles can be shared with the click of a mouse. This powerful extension allows you to put sharing links throughout your website.
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With the Easy Social Icons module all your articles can be shared with the click of a mouse. This powerful extension allows you to put sharing links throughout your website.
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December 26, 2016
Updated Class: The Beginners Guide to WordPress
WordPress is almost constantly changing, so our videos need regular updates to remain useful.
We have completely updated the 40 videos in "The Beginners Guide to WordPress" class so that they're ready for WordPress 4.7.
This class teaches you everything you need to get started with WordPress. This is a Beginner class and is aimed at people who are completely new to WordPress.
In the first part of the class, you'll create content and learn how to handle text and images.
In the second part of the class, you'll add extra features to your site with plugins.
In the third part of the class, you'll learn to control the design of your site with themes.
In the final two parts of the class, you'll learn how to manage your site and keep it safe.
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We have completely updated the 40 videos in "The Beginners Guide to WordPress" class so that they're ready for WordPress 4.7.
This class teaches you everything you need to get started with WordPress. This is a Beginner class and is aimed at people who are completely new to WordPress.
In the first part of the class, you'll create content and learn how to handle text and images.
In the second part of the class, you'll add extra features to your site with plugins.
In the third part of the class, you'll learn to control the design of your site with themes.
In the final two parts of the class, you'll learn how to manage your site and keep it safe.
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