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Backup and Restore a Drupal 8 Site

Drupal 8 is here and ready to use right now.

However, not all of the contributed modules are available yet. That includes Backup and Migrate which was the most popular way to backup and restore Drupal 7 sites.

These four videos, sponsored by the excellent team at InMotion Hosting, offer a backup and restore solution that you can use with Drupal 8 today.



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WordPress and WooCommerce as oEmbed Providers

With the release of WordPress 4.4 in December 2015, WordPress joined the ranks of most social networks and became an oEmbed provider.

What does that mean? It means that you can easily embed snippets from WordPress posts in other content, using just a URL.

Here's an overview of how WordPress allows you share posts on other sites (and even your own site).



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How to Embed Spotify Songs in Joomla

If you use Joomla, then you've had problems with embeds.

Before the launch of the OSEmbed extension, it was difficult to reliably embed any outside sources into your Joomla articles.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to embed Spotify songs into Joomla.



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Hide Elements on Specific WordPress Pages Using Post ID and CSS

One of our members was creating a landing page in WordPress and needed to hide some elements of his theme. However, those elements couldn't be hidden from the theme or widget settings.

We recommended he use a quick solution that requires a little CSS.

In this post, I'm going to show you how to hide elements on certain pages of your WordPress site.



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Hide Elements with CSS in Specific WordPress Pages

If you need to hide elements only in some pages, but you cannot do it from the theme settings or with custom templates, you can use a quick solution that requires a bit of CSS.

In this post, I'm going to show you how to do it. Let's start...



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New Videos: Drupal 7 Layout and Theming

This week's new video class is "Drupal 7 Layout and Theming".

This massive new class is 56 videos long and covers everything you need to know when starting to design Drupal sites.

This class was created in partnership with Acquia and you'll learn all the best practices from Drupal's top company. You'll learn a variety of approaches to making dynamic layouts in Drupal, and how to choose the right approach for your site. You'll also learn how to get more control over the look and feel by creating a custom theme in Drupal.

By the end of the class, you'll know how to create and configure Drupal sites that are responsive and beautiful.



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Video: Train Your Staff for Drupal 8

In mid-January we held a webinar with Acquia, explaining how to train your team on Drupal 8.

This was an interesting webinar to run because it ended up being pretty different from our planning. There were two major changes:

When scheduling the webinar, we intended to explain many of Drupal 8 training resources available. However, by mid-January, many contributed Drupal 8 modules didn't have stable releases and so most D8 training wasn't ready. So, in the webinar, we explaind when Drupal 8 training would be available.
We were able to make a very cool surprise announcement. Watch to the end of the webinar for the big reveal.


From the webinar, here's an overview of when several important modules will be stable:



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Create a Flip Effect with jQuery to Show Images and Text

Have you seen websites where photos of the staff members flip over? You hover your mouse over the picture of the staff member and the image flips over the reveal the staff members name.

Sounds difficult? Thanks to the jQuery Flip plugin and a bit of CSS, this effect is easy to achieve.

To create a flip animation with HTML, you need to create two containers: the front (visible) and the back (hidden), then apply a little CSS and Javascript.



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New Class: Joomla 3 Multilingual Sites

The week's new class is Joomla 3 Multilingual Sites. This class teaches you how to build Joomla sites where visitors can easily switch back-and-forth between different languages.

Joomla 3 really is a powerful tool for multilingual sites. Once you understand the power of "associations", you can create sites in multiple languages that are still easy to manage.

In this class, we'll show you how to translate the Joomla core, 3rd party extensions with translations and even those without official translations.



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How to Embed SoundCloud Audio Files in Joomla

If you use Joomla, then you may have encountered problems with embeds.

Before the launch of the OSEmbed extension, it was difficult to reliably embed any outside sources into your Joomla articles.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how easy it is to use OSEmbed to include SoundCloud audio files in Joomla content.



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