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Display Category Hierarchy in a Widget in WordPress

One of our members at OSTraining was having trouble displaying Easy Digital Downloads' categories in a hierarchy. She wanted them displayed in her side menu, but could only get the top level categories.

We created this tutorial for her and it can be used as a general solution for any categories in WordPress.



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First Impression of Yo!Kart, a Multi-Vendor Ecommerce Solution

Yo!Kart is a software platform for multi-vendor stores. It allows someone to start a store where others can sell products in it. In exchange, the store owner gets a commision for each purchase.

Starting a multi-vendor store from scratch is a huge, costly undertaking. Yo!Kart has simplified the process and created the software for it. It allows startups to get up and running within a day, rather than several months or years.



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First Impression of Yo!Kart

What is Yo!Kart?

Yo!Kart is a software platform for multi-vendor stores. It allows someone to start a store where others can sell products in it. In exchange, the store owner gets a commision for each purchase.

Starting a multi-vendor store from scratch is a huge, costly undertaking. Yo!Kart has simplified the process and created the software for it. It allows startups to get up and running within a day, rather than several months or years.



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How to Use Shortcodes in WordPress Widgets

One of our OSTraining members was having an issue with shortcodes in widgets, so we created a tutorial for her.

By default, WordPress doesn't execute shortcodes inside the default text widget. This tutorial will show you an easy way to get shortcodes working.



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New Class: How to Build a Drupal 7 Jobs Site

We're happy to add another large and highly-useful new class to the OSTraining library today, How to Build a Drupal 7 Jobs Site.


This class has over 60 videos and is an complete introduction to the principles and skills needed to build websites in Drupal 7. This is practical hands-on class and you can follow along with every step.



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The Coffee Module Makes Life Easier for Drupal Admins

Navigating through Drupal's admina area can be complex for users.

Drupal's Coffee Module can help Drupal newcomers. Coffee adds an additional search function which allows admins to search and go directly to the areas they need.

Coffee is available for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.



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How to Create Tabs or Sliders in Joomla Articles

Sometimes there's too much content on a page and you need a cleaner way to organize it all.


This tutorial will show you how to group your Joomla content together into tabs or sliders.

The Tabs & Sliders extension will make this easy to accomplish. Tabs & Sliders is a great choice, having been downloaded over 1 million times. It has over 100 reviews on the Joomla Extensions Directory and has a rating of almost 100%.





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How to Create Tabs or Sliders in Joomla

Sometimes there's too much content on a page. This tutorial will show you how to group together content into tabs or sliders.



The Tabs & Sliders extension will make this easy to accomplish.



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How to Change the jQuery Version in Drupal 7

One of our OSTraining members asked about how to change the jQuery on their Drupal site, so we created this tutorial for him.

Below is quick guide to installing Drupal's jQuery plugin module.



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Kint is the Drupal 8 Alternative to Krumo

Kint is part of the new part of the Devel module in Drupal 8.

Developers who worked with Drupal 7 may remember Krumo, which is a very helpful debugging tool. Kint is an almost direct replacement for Krumo.

In this video from our Drupal 8 Theming class, Rod shows you how to use Kint to print the arrays on your site.

If you place {{ kint () }} into your theme's page.html.twig file, you'll be able dig into your site's arrays and variables.



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