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How to Embed Google Docs in Joomla

Google Docs are some of trickiest things to embed in any website. The embed code is hard to use and can easily become corrupted.

This week, we're delighted to announce that Google Drive support has been added to our OSEmbed extension.

You can now embed Google Docs into your Joomla site with just a URL. This feature is so cool that it's not even available in WordPress, which is famous for easy embeds.



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How to Embed Google Maps in Joomla

Google Maps are some of trickiest things to embed in any website. Or, at least they used to be.

This week, we're delighted to announce that Google Maps support has been added to our OSEmbed extension.

You can now embed Google Maps into your Joomla site with just a URL. This feature is so cool that it's not even available in WordPress, which is famous for easy embeds.



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Join the Support Team at OSTraining

Come and join the Support team here at OSTraining

As our company grows, we have an increasing demand for support.

If you're a kind-hearted, helpful person and know your way around WordPress and Drupal, we'd love to hear from you.

Here's an overview of what we can offer you and what we're looking for in a support team member:



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Using Entity Reference Fields in Drupal Views

An OSTraining member came to us with a question. The member had two content types that were linked by an Entity Reference field. They wanted to use Views to automatically show import from one content type to another.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use Entity Reference fields inside Views.



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WordAds: is it a WordPress Rival to AdSense?

One OSTraining member was investigating ways to monetize their site and asked us about WordAds, the WordPress-based advertising program from Automattic.

They were curious about how WordAds works and how it compares to Google's Adsense offering. It probably doesn't help that the name is confusingly similar to Google's AdWords program.

Here's our introduction to WordAds and whether it's worth testing on your site.



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How to Change the Default Language of a Drupal Site

One OSTraining member had set up a site in English and wanted to move everything over to their native language.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to completely change the main language of a Drupal 7 site.

I'm going to use the example of an English-language site that needs to be changed to Spanish.

First, go to "Modules" and enable the Locale module:



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How to Change the Main Language of a Drupal site

One OSTraining had set up a site in English and wanted to move everything over to their native language.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to completely change the main language of a Drupal 7 site.

I'm going to use the example of an English-language site that needs to be changed to Spanish.

First, go to "Modules" and enable the Locale module:



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Build an Ajax Search Module for Joomla

Ajax makes possible to create websites that are easier and faster to use. You can use Ajax to refresh a specific section of a page without reloading all the content. 

One really common use for Ajax is a search feature. You can use Ajax to allow visitors to try multiple different searches without refreshing the page.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use Ajax to create a Joomla search module.



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Drupal 8: Internal Page Cache and Internal Dynamic Page Cache

Drupal 8 offers major advances over Drupal 7 in many areas, including caching. 

In Drupal 8, there are now two cache modules: Internal Page Cache and Internal Dynamic Page Cache. Do those two names sound confusingly similar? In that case, this blog post is for you.

In these three videos, Robert introduces us how Drupal 8's core caching systems work.



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Show Drupal Content Inside a Pop-up Window

One OSTraining member wanted to create a series of disclaimers for external links.

They wanted a text disclaimer to appear inside a pop-up after a visitor clicked a link.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make that happen ...



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