Stephen Burge's Blog, page 84
March 2, 2016
Connect Calypso and JetPack to Multiple WordPress Accounts
One OSTraining member is really enjoying Calypso, the new desktop blogging app from WordPress.com.
They wanted to know if it was possible to allow multiple team members to use Calypso on the same site.
Yes, that's definitely possible although it requires some configuration. Here's how to make it work:
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They wanted to know if it was possible to allow multiple team members to use Calypso on the same site.
Yes, that's definitely possible although it requires some configuration. Here's how to make it work:
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Use the Wistia API and Plugins to Add a Rewind Button
We use Wistia to host all our videos and provide a great viewing experience for our users.
The Wistia platform offers many useful features out-of-the-box, including the design of the player, video controls, social sharing, timeline actions, and more. If you login to your Wistia account, you'll be able to customize all these features using their friendly admin panel.
However, Wistia also has an API that allows you to add your own customizations. From a developer perspective, I want to show you how to take advantage the Wistia API to adding extra features to their video player.
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The Wistia platform offers many useful features out-of-the-box, including the design of the player, video controls, social sharing, timeline actions, and more. If you login to your Wistia account, you'll be able to customize all these features using their friendly admin panel.
However, Wistia also has an API that allows you to add your own customizations. From a developer perspective, I want to show you how to take advantage the Wistia API to adding extra features to their video player.
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March 1, 2016
Test Your Site on Real iOS Devices 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. Whenever we update our site design or test a new feature, we can easily troubleshoot issues in major browsers and on mobile devices.
As developers and designers, we often make the mistake of testing our responsive design on a desktop computer. Resizing the browser can emulate the screen size of mobile device, however it doesn't provide a truly accurate result.
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As developers and designers, we often make the mistake of testing our responsive design on a desktop computer. Resizing the browser can emulate the screen size of mobile device, however it doesn't provide a truly accurate result.
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How to Align Images with JCE in Joomla
JCE Editor provides many extra features for Joomla users, including the ability to create tables, insert images, style the text and much more.
Image alignment is easy with JCE, and this is one of the reasons why I like using this editor.
In this post, I'll share with you how to align images with JCE Editor.
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Image alignment is easy with JCE, and this is one of the reasons why I like using this editor.
In this post, I'll share with you how to align images with JCE Editor.
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Custom Block Types in Drupal 8
Blocks have had a major overhaul in Drupal 8.
Blocks are now broken down into two modules. The Block module simply handles the placement of blocsk into regions. The Custom Block module implements a new entity that allows you create block types and add fields to them.
In these two videos, taken from our upcoming Drupal 8 Site Building class, Rod introduces you to blocks in Drupal 8.
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Blocks are now broken down into two modules. The Block module simply handles the placement of blocsk into regions. The Custom Block module implements a new entity that allows you create block types and add fields to them.
In these two videos, taken from our upcoming Drupal 8 Site Building class, Rod introduces you to blocks in Drupal 8.
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February 29, 2016
Randomly Show Drupal Content or Users in Views
One of our members wanted to randomly sort their Views results. Fortunately, it's very easy to do this because it's a core feature in Views.
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February 24, 2016
Customize Your Joomla Articles for Facebook Sharing
One of our users asked for a way to customize the content that is displayed when sharing a Joomla article in Facebook.
Facebook scrapes the meta information for the article's description and title, and also automatically pick a relevant image.
I'm going to explain how to add an image to articles and customize the meta information that is displayed when you share a link.
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Facebook scrapes the meta information for the article's description and title, and also automatically pick a relevant image.
I'm going to explain how to add an image to articles and customize the meta information that is displayed when you share a link.
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Goodbye, Drupal 6
Today, after over 8 years, we say thank you and goodbye to Drupal 6.
Drupal 6 is now officially "end-of-life".
Drupal 6 launched in 2008 and was the backbone behind many of the projects that made Drupal famous. At its height, there were over 300,000 Drupal 6 sites that were reporting to Drupal.org.
Below you can see Drupal 6's popularity during its first 3 years of Drupal 6. The red line shows Drupal 6's growth and the green line shows Drupal 7.
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Drupal 6 is now officially "end-of-life".
Drupal 6 launched in 2008 and was the backbone behind many of the projects that made Drupal famous. At its height, there were over 300,000 Drupal 6 sites that were reporting to Drupal.org.
Below you can see Drupal 6's popularity during its first 3 years of Drupal 6. The red line shows Drupal 6's growth and the green line shows Drupal 7.
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February 23, 2016
New Video Class: Speeding up Drupal 8
This week's new video class is "Drupal 8 Performance".
Drupal can be slow if your site is complex or hosted on an under-powered server.
In this class, Robert helps you understand how to speed up your Drupal sites. You'll learn about caching, aggregation, image optimization and more. We'll also showcase some of the differences beween Drupal 7 and 8.
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Drupal can be slow if your site is complex or hosted on an under-powered server.
In this class, Robert helps you understand how to speed up your Drupal sites. You'll learn about caching, aggregation, image optimization and more. We'll also showcase some of the differences beween Drupal 7 and 8.
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Create 301 and 302 URL Redirections in Drupal
Websites change frequently and you often need to move or change URLs. Whenever you make a change, you'll need to safely redirect the old URLs to the new URLs.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create 301 and 302 redirects for your Drupal site.
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In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create 301 and 302 redirects for your Drupal site.
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