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Set a Custom Base for Category and Tag Urls in WordPress

WordPress by default use the category and tag words as base in the urls. For example:

mysite.com/category/something - for a category page.
mysite.com/tag/something - for a tag page.


In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to replace "category" and "tag" words from the urls.



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How to Create Footnotes in Drupal

If you're using Drupal for an academic site, you may want to use footnotes in your content.

There is a Drupal module that makes these easy. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how add footnotes.

Install and and enable the Footnotes module. 
Go to Configuration > Text formats.
Edit a text format and check the "Footnotes" box.
Save this text format and repeat the process any other formats you use.




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Protect your Joomla Administrator with AdminExile

AdminExile add an extra security layer in Joomla. This plugin makes possible deny access to your administrator login page.

We've found this to be useful for security, but also to keep our site online. Before we protected our login area, we found that spam bots could hit our login often enough to take our site offline.

In this tutorial, I'm going to explain how to use the basic feature of this plugin.



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Turn Off Comments in WordPress with Disable Comments Plugin

One of our users asked for a quick way to disable comments globally in WordPress. By using Disable Comments plugin it's easy to solve this request.

In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to disable comments with a few clicks.



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What are Loops in Drupal Rules?

Loops are potentially confusing, but they are a very useful feature in Drupal's Rules module.

Essentially a loop allows you to run an action over a list, rather than just a single item.

For example, in these videos, Robert has a list of multiple people who have edited a node. He creates an action to show the names of an editor, and then repeats that action for all the editors.



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How to Create Joomla User Groups and Access Levels

User groups and Access levels makes possible to organize and define permissions for users in Joomla. The default user groups in new sites are registered, manager, super user, etc. That's enough for regular projects, however sometimes it's required to create custom groups.

In this tutorial, I'm going show you how to create a user group and to assign it to an access level.



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A Video Introduction to BuddyPress Groups

BuddyPress is the social networking plugin for WordPress.

You can create public, private or hidden (invite-only) groups. 

A BuddyPress group is a very similar to a Facebook group and allow your members to organize themselves, based on their interests.



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New Class: Introduction to WordPress Theme Development

Do you want to design WordPress themes? This class is the perfect place to start.

Topher uses Underscores, a very popular starter theme, to introduce you to all the key concepts behind WordPress themes.

The class starts with a tour of WordPress theme files, introducing the naming system for pages, categories, tags, custom posts types and more. You'll see how WordPress' template hierarchy enables you to design specific pages.

In the second half of the class, Topher talks about PHP functions and template tags which allow you to safely customize your site's functionality.



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How Did We Do? Revisiting Our CMS Predictions for 2015

Back at the beginning of 2015 we made 10 predictions for the year ahead.

We said that the last few years had been quiet in the CMS world, and that 2015 would finally bring big changes.

Let's see whether 2015 did prove to be as revolutionary we predicted ...



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Automatic Pop-ups with jQuery bPopup Plugin

One of our users asked for a way to open a modal pop-up automatically when a page loads.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a pop-up with those requirements by using the jQuery bPopup plugin.



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