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Protect WordPress Email Addresses From Spammers

Adding your email address to your site is helpful to your users. But, it also makes it available to spammers. Spammers can use scripts that visit websites and harvest the email addresses that are publicly available. This is called scraping.

This tutorial will show you a great way to mitigate scraping.



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Convert Old School Emoticons into Emojis with ReReplacer

Emojis are popular. You can see them everywhere on Facebook, Twitter, and now in Joomla too!

I'm a fan of typing emoticons in the old way. On the web, I usually type the smiley one with :) and (y) to represent a thumbs up.

In this tutorial, I'll share a trick to convert those old school emoticons into the new emojis supported in Joomla 3, using the ReReplacer extension.



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How to Take and Annotate Screenshots with BrowserStack

BrowserStack is a tool that we constantly rely on at OSTraining. It's an online service that makes it easy to do cross-browser compatibility testing. 

When we're developing sites, we use Browserstack to test our work. One key feature is the ability to take screenshots and add annotations.

This is really useful for when you find a design issue in a specific browser and want to report it to the designer in charge. 



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Drupal 8.1 and What It Means for Drupal's Future

Today, Drupal 8.1 was officially released.

All the way back in 2014, we talked about the changes coming to Drupal and how the release cycle would allow for changes to be progressively added to Drupal.

At that time, it was estimated that a new version with new features could be released every 6 months. Keeping to that schedule for Drupal 8 has been problematic due to the size and scope of what they wanted to achieve, but they made it! 



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New Class: Drupal 8 Theming

We're happy to add a large and highly-requested new class to the OSTraining library today, Drupal 8 Layout and Theming.

This class is a hands-on introduction to designing your Drupal 8 site. You'll learn how to customize your Drupal site with CSS, HTML, Javascript, custom fonts and more.

To take this class, you should already have good Drupal 8 site building skills, plus a knowledge of CSS, HTML and some PHP.



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New Class: Drupal 8 Layout and Theming

We're happy to add a large and highly-requested new class to the OSTraining library today, Drupal 8 Layout and Theming.

This class is a hands-on introduction to designing your Drupal 8 site. You'll learn how to customize your Drupal site with CSS, HTML, Javascript, custom fonts and more.


To take this class, you should already have good Drupal 8 site building skills, plus a knowledge of CSS, HTML and some PHP.



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How to Reorder Your WordPress Posts

One of our members asked for a way to reorder his WordPress posts.

Luckily, with Simple Custom Post Order plugin this task is a piece of cake. Let's start...



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How to Easily Insert Modules into Joomla Articles

With Joomla 3.5's release, there's now an easy way to add modules to articles. The old way still works, but it's slower and not needed with the new click-and-set feature.



Here's how easy it is...



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Customize the Design of Your Embeddable WordPress Posts

WordPress 4.5 was released this week.

One of its changes involves improvements in the layout for post embeds. When another WordPress site embeds one of your blog posts, you can control the design via your WordPress theme.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to customize your embeddable posts.



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Add Custom Javascript to Your Joomla Site

If you want to add custom javascript to your Joomla site without modifying any existing files, we recommend the "Add Custom JS" plugin.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use Add Custom JS to safely load custom javascript.



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