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New Video Class: Drupal 8 Site Building

Now that you've completed the Drupal 8 Beginner class, it's time to build your first real site and start exploring Drupal's powerful modules and themes.

This week we've released the Drupal 8 Site Building class.

This class has over 50 videos that take you through the entire process of building a Drupal 8 site, using the OSTraining workflow:



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How to Opt-Out of Disqus Reveal

We use Disqus to power the comments on several sites.

This week, Disqus sent a friendly email:
"Congratulations! After careful review, we’ve approved your site OSTaining for Reveal—Disqus’ monetization solution for publishers."

Congratulations? I didn't even know what Reveal was until that moment.

Then a few days later, on Friday, another email arrived to say that Reveal would be automatically enabled in 4 days time, unless we opted out.



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Is Robots.txt Blocking the Right Files on My Site?

By default, all the URLs on your site can be crawled by Google. However, if we don't want Google to index some specific pages, you can use a robots.txt file.

In your Robots.txt file, you can request that Google not index certain pages by using this "disallow" rule:

{codecitation}Disallow: /dont-scan-this-url/{/codecitation}

In this post, I'll show you how to use Google Search Console to check whether you have successfully blocked Google from indexing a particular URL.



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Check if Your Site URLs Can Be Indexed with the Robots.txt Tester

By default, all the URLs on your site can be crawled by Google. However, if we don't want Google to index some specific pages, you can use a robots.txt file.

In your Robots.txt file, you can request that Google not index certain pages by using this "disallow" rule:

{codecitation}Disallow: /dont-scan-this-url/{/codecitation}

In this post, I'll show you how to use Google Search Console to check whether you have successfully blocked Google from indexing a particular URL.



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Check if your Site's URLs Can Be Indexed or Not with Robots.txt Tester

Robots.txt is an important file that allow or deny access to specific pages from our site to search engines.

By default all the URLs can be crawled by Google, however, if we don't want the googlebot scan some specific pages, we use the "disallow" rule in this format:

{codecitation}Disallow: /dont-scan-this-url/{/codecitation}

In this post, I'll show you how to know if a URL is being blocked or allowed for googlebots.



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How to Add Disqus Comments to Drupal 8

While Drupal comes with its own comment system many users prefer to use Disqus as a centralised comment platform.

Adding Disqus to Drupal 8 is a simple process. I'm going to show you how install the module, create a Disqus account, and hide Drupal's default comments.

I'm going to show you how install the module, create a Disqus account, and hide Drupal's default comments.



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Reinstall Your WordPress Files and Databases

"Have you tried restarting it?" is the age-old wisdom of the IT world.

In this troubleshooting guide, I'll show you some simple steps to reset the WordPress core files and database.



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How to Reset WordPress

"Have you tried restarting it?" is the age-old wisdom of the IT world.

In this troubleshooting guide, I'll show you some simple steps to reset the WordPress core files and database.

Let's get started...



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How to Fix Folder and File Permissions in WordPress

The server's folder and file permissions help with site security. If the permissions are too loose, they can be exploited by hackers. However, if the permissions are too strict, they can prevent legitimate admin actions, like installing themes.

This tutorial will show you a quick and easy way to fix folder and file permissions.



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Fixing Folder and File Permissions in WordPress

The server's folder and file permissions help with site security. If the permissions are too loose, they can be exploited by hackers. However, if the permissions are too strict, they can prevent legitimate admin actions, like installing themes.

This tutorial will show you a quick and easy way to fix folder and file permissions.



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