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Change Home Page Meta Description in Prestashop Sites

Prestashop is a popular option for building e-commerce sites.

The default meta description for new Prestashop sites is, "Shop powered by PrestaShop". For SEO purposes, it's highly recommended to update that meta description as soon as possible because it does not describe your unique site.

In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to change the meta description for the main page.



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Your Complete Introduction to Drupal 8 Configuration Management

A lot of OSTraining members have started to experiment with Drupal 8.

Some of the features are really well documented and are easy to use. Some others require more explanation. One such feature is Configuration Management. The aim of this feature is to make it easier to use a development-live site workflow in Drupal 8.

Here is our introduction to Configuration Management in Drupal 8 ... 



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Display an Specific Node with Views in Drupal

One of our users asked for a way to display a specific node inside a View. Luckily, Views for Drupal 7 has a filter criteria to achieve this requirement.

With the Node ID we can retrieve a single result. Let's start...



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Display an Specific Node with Views in Drupal 7

One of our users asked for a way to display an specific node inside a view. Luckily, Views for Drupal 7 has a filter criteria to achieve this requirement.

With the node's id we can retrieve a single result. Let's start...



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How to Embed Instagram Photos and Videos in Joomla

If you use Joomla, then you probably know that embeds can be confusing. It can be hard to find the right embed code and then keep it intact while using your WYSIWYG editor.


Thankfully, the OSEmbed extension makes embeds much easier.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how easy it is to embed Instagram videos and photos into Joomla.



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Add Images to Joomla's Most Read Module

Joomla's "Most read" module displays the links for your most popular articles.

However, what if you want to make the module more attractive by displaying the article's intro image above each link? Template overrides allow us to make this possible.

I'm going to share with you how to display intro images in the Most Read module.



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How to Build Drupal 8 Slideshows

If you're getting started with Drupal 8, there are some key features you'll need to master.

You'll probably want to learn how to set-up calendars, contact forms, comments, multi-lingual sites and of course, slideshows.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build your first Drupal 8 slideshow.



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Drupal 8 Themes for Beginners

A couple of years ago, we realized that a lot of Drupal beginners were asking us for simple, good-looking Drupal themes.

These beginners didn't want sub-themes, base themes, frameworks or complicated installs. So that meant no Omega, Zen, Fusion or Bootstrap. These beginners just wanted a theme could be installed easily and didn't look embarrassing. That lead to "Recommended Themes for Drupal Beginners", one of the most popular posts on this blog.

Now that Drupal 8 is here, we've started to hear the same question: "What theme should beginners use to create their first site?"

Unfortunately, the news is not good at the moment. Only 86 themes are ready for Drupal 8, and I could only find 3 that are suitable for beginners.



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Unable to load user with ID Error in K2 for Joomla

One of our members is having an error in a Joomla site that involves a K2 item. The error makes reference to a user ID:

{codecitation php}JUser: :_load: Unable to load user with ID: 73{/codecitation}

By searching the user ID in the administrator area, I realized that the user account doesn't exists; the account was probably deleted.

In this post, I'm going to show you how to fix this error through phpMyAdmin.



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How to Add Page Content Particles in Gantry 5 for Joomla

Gantry 5 is a very powerful template framework for Joomla, that a lot of our members use.

A common concern for Gantry 5 users is that articles are not being displayed in some pages. This is controlled by "Particles" in Gantry. If you're not sure what Particles, are read this blog post from our Gantry 5 series.

In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to add a Page Content Particle to your Gantry 5 template, so that your articles are visible.



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