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How to Track WordPress Pages and Posts that Need Review

One of our members was wanting an efficient way to track which content needs review, so we created this tutorial for him. And there's no plugin needed!

WordPress has really useful features for content creation and maintenance. One of those features is the "Pending Review" feature.



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How to Track Pages that Need Review (It Works for Posts Too)

One of our members was wanting an efficient way to track which content needs review, so we created this tutorial for him. And there's no plugin needed!



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Add a Floating Feedback Button in Drupal 7

One of our users wanted to know how to add a floating button to his Drupal site. Luckily, this task is easy to accomplish thanks to the Feedback Simple module.

In this short tutorial, I'll share with you how to add a floating feedback button linked to a contact page in Drupal 7.



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How to Add Vk.com Sharing Buttons to WordPress

One of our users asked for a way to include Vk.com sharing buttons in their WordPress site.

VK is a large European social network with more than a 100 million active users.

This is certainly possible to do by using the Jetpack plugin.

In this post, I'm going to show you how to add a VK sharing button to WordPress.



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Introducing Wistia: Our Video Host and Sponsor

Today we're delighted to welcome Wistia as a sponsor of OSTraining.
Wistia is not only a sponsor here but serves an integral part of our video training.  Whenever you watch a class at OSTraining, Wisita is serving you the videos.

Wistia is one of those companies, like Slack or MailChimp, that have nailed their user experience. Like those other companies, the technical side of things is superb, but they're also fun to use.
Here's a 2015 year-end recap from Wistia, giving you a flavor of their attitude:



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How to Reset a WordPress Password Without Admin Access

Sometimes you forget your admin password and need a reset. This tutorial will show you two easy ways to reset your password without admin access.

Let's get started...



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Add Onclick Events to Drupal Menu Links

We've written before that menu links are one of the more basic features on a Drupal site.

One of our members wanted greater control over their menu links by using Javascript's Onclick events.

An Onclick event allows you to choose the action that happens when someone clicks a link.

I'm going to show you an easy way to make that possible, without any custom coding.



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How to Embed Tweets into 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 easy it is to embed tweets from Twitter into Joomla.



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Test Beta Versions of the WordPress Core and Plugins

WordPress is an open source and community supported project. Thousands of volunteers help keep it running smoothly. You too can volunteer and help.

You can contribute to WordPress' development without any coding knowledge. You can help by testing beta versions of the WordPress core and also WordPress plugins.



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Two Easy Ways to Contribute to WordPress Development

WordPress is an open source and community supported project. Thousands of volunteers help keep it running smoothly. You too can volunteer and help.



Here are two easy and meaningful ways to contribute to WordPress Development:



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