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November 23, 2016

How to Add Microdata for Products to WordPress Pages

Microdata makes it possible to search engines to understand important details about your site's content.

We previously talked about this topic, this time we will go more specific and show you how to add Products microdata to your WordPress pages without using a plugin.

This is very useful to promote the value of the products your sell through a WordPress site. Let's start...



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Published on November 23, 2016 14:16

How to Stop Bootstrap Loading Multiple Times in Joomla

Bootstrap is the most popular CSS framework to build and design websites. Developers and designers depend on it on a daily basis.

However, Bootstrap is so popular that some sites end up loading it several times. Imagine this scenario where Bootstrap loads three times:

Bootstrap loads from Joomla core
Bootstrap loads from a third party component
Bootstrap loads from a third party module


In this post, I'll give you some tips to fix the load of several instances of Bootstrap in your Joomla site.



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Published on November 23, 2016 10:09

Tips to Fix Bootstrap Being Loaded Multiple Times in Joomla

Bootstrap is the most popular CSS framework to build and design websites. Developers and designers depends on it on a daily basis.

What if a Joomla site uses more than one instance of Bootstrap? Imagine this scenario where Bootstrap loads three times:

Bootstrap 2 loads from Joomla core
Bootstrap 2 loads from a third party component
Bootstrap 2 loads from a third party module


In this post I'll give you some tips to fix the load of several instances of Bootstrap in your Joomla site.



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Published on November 23, 2016 10:09

November 18, 2016

How to Add Google Maps to Drupal 8

In this tutorial, I will explain how to use the Drupal 8 Simple Google Maps module to add a map to your website.

Google has made some the recent changes to the API requests and this tutorial will clarify the process.



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Published on November 18, 2016 05:52

November 17, 2016

WordPress Themes Giveaway from Dessign

WordPress Themes Giveaway from Dessign.net (5 Winners)

 

We have teamed up with Dessign.net to give you the opportunity to win beautiful minimalist WordPress themes so you can build your websites, blogs and portfolio websites super fast.



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Published on November 17, 2016 02:17

November 16, 2016

How to Contribute Your Code on Drupal.org, Part 1

Welcome to the first part of our new series about contributing to Drupal for beginners.

We recently published our first theme to Drupal.org. That theme is called Breeze.

However, you don't have to be a designer or developer to contribute to Drupal. Here is a list of the many different ways you can contribute to Drupal:



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Published on November 16, 2016 06:23

Beginners Guide to Contributing to Drupal : Prerequisites

Welcome to the first part of our series on contributing to Drupal for beginners.



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November 14, 2016

Using CSS3 Filters for Photoshop Like Effects

With just a few lines of CSS, you can apply several visual effects to any image on your website without using Photoshop or JavaScript. CSS filters offer the ability to execute site wide or page specific image modifications; that can save you time and requests for graphic design assistance.
Currently, the filter property offers 10 style variations, but we're going to focus on the three most widely used elements: grayscale, blur, and opacity.



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Published on November 14, 2016 08:31

Show or Hide in Joomla With Conditional Content

If you have worked in Joomla for any time, you've probably used the excellent extensions by Peter at Regular Labs. Recently, he unveiled a very useful new extension called Conditional Content.

Previously, it was difficult to get full control over the "4 Ws" of how your content displayed ... who, what, where, and when. This required multiple Joomla extensions and often a bit of PHP coding. Conditional Content makes it much easier to show your content only under certain conditions.



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Published on November 14, 2016 07:42

November 11, 2016

Use is_plugin_active() to check If a WordPress Plugin is Activate

WordPress has a ton of hooks and methods to check specific tasks. These are very useful when developing plugins and themes.

In this post I'll show you how to use the is_plugin_active() method to check if another plugin is installed and activated. 



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Published on November 11, 2016 09:57