WordPress Tutorials

Have you ever experienced Microsoft’s famous Blue Screen Of Death? Well, WordPress has it’s own version commonly called the White Screen Of Death. You are most likely to see this after upgrading WordPress to a new version, adding a plugin or a theme.  It is possible to turn on debug mode to find the problem, [...]

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“Taxonomy” is a confusing word and one that many people don’t like. It’s hard to remember, it contains the word “tax”, and it sounds like a little too much like “taxidermy” for comfort. However, recently WordPress has adopted the word “taxonomy” as an additional way to organize information in more advanced ways than can be [...]

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Over the last few years people have been pushing the boundaries of WordPress as a CMS. One of the most important boundaries has been only having posts and pages as option for your content. Custom Content Type Manager (CTM) is a plugin that allows you to go much further. CTM allows you to create custom [...]

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Child themes are the professional way to modify WordPress themes. Matt Mullenweg who founded WordPress said that “child themes are the only way you should build your WordPress site on top of a [another theme]“. A child theme can use all of the functions, CSS and design features from a parent theme. The child themes [...]

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The first beta version of WordPress 3.4 was released today. So what’s new? At first glance, you might say “not much”. Unlike version 3.3, there are no easily visible changes to the admin area. WordPress 3.4 is all about making theme customization easier, but even when you click on Appearance, you still won’t notice any [...]

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WordPress has nearly 20,000 plugins, which is both a blessing and a curse for beginners. On the one hand, it’s wonderful that so many developers have produced so much free software. On the other hand, it can be really hard to find the good plugins when there are so many to sort through. We often [...]

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If you move your WordPress site, you may have trouble getting your pages to show correctly. Often this problem is caused by two WordPress settings: the Site URL and the Home URL. These are normally easy to change by going to Dashboard > Settings > General settings page. But sometimes that’s difficult to do because [...]

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The OSToolbar is a great way to provide OSTraining videos to your customers. You can give your webdesign customers WordPress videos, and they can all be watched directly from inside their site. No more confused phone calls. No more emails asking about simple WordPress features. Give them the OSToolbar, and they can watch and learn [...]

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There is one reason I keep hearing over and over again from people who don’t use WordPress: there’s no access control. For large organizations, it’s essential to have close control over what users can and cannot do on our site. Drupal and Joomla both have powerful access control systems in the core. With WordPress, if [...]

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Frameworks offer a new level of control over website development. Gantry is one of several frameworks available that extend your ability to layout and modify websites and themes with no coding skills. Gantry is based on a 960 grid system that can read about in our article on 960 grids. We also covered Gantry for [...]

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WordPress has language files that hold all of the messages and labels you see while using your site. You can change this text if you need to.

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The phrase “Responsive Web Design” isn’t even two years old, but it’s hard to read web design articles these days without hearing it mentioned. What is it and how does it impact WordPress? Responsive design means that your theme is flexible enough to look good on any device. There is no need to create a [...]

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It is possible to build great multi-lingual sites with WordPress. The WP core is not multi-lingual but there are several plugins available including WPML, xili-language, Polylang, qTranslate, Transposh and Global Translator. In this tutorial, we’re going to explain how those plugins work and help you decide which one is right for your needs. The multilingual [...]

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The User Switching plugin is logically named. It allows administrators to switch and see the site as another user.  This plugin is a must-have if you run a site with multiple user levels, have a large number of users or use multiple accounts for yourself. Instead of opening two browsers or logging in and logging [...]

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JoomEdit – The easy way to make your Joomla site extremely dynamic. Don’t know Javascript but want to make your website interactive and dynamic? No worries, just install JoomEdit! JoomEdit integrates Joomla with IxEdit, a powerful JavaScript-based interaction design tool. Read more… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://OSTraining.com for full links, other [...]

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OSDonate is the first Paypal Donate Button on the JED for Joomla 1.6. We have also made it available for Joomla 1.5 as well. It’s packed with features, it’s simple to use, and it even hovers in a fixed position on the page! It’s a great choice for anyone who wants their donation button noticed. [...]

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This tutorial will reveal TinyMCE’s hidden gem: Extensibility.   Default TinyMCE Joomla 1.6′s default TinyMCE looks plain on the surface, however there’s more than meets the eye…   Extended JCE Go to Extensions >> Plugin-in Manager >> TinyMCE Search >> Editor – TinyMCE   Set Functionality to Extended.   Save & Close.   Say “Hello!” [...]

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One of our students was having trouble removing URLs from Google and received this message: “Your request has been denied because the webmaster of the site hasn’t applied the appropriate robots.txt file or meta tags to block us from indexing or archiving this page. Please work with the webmaster of this site or select an alternate [...]

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In Joomla 1.5, you could type ?tp=1 behind the url to find all the module positions of a template. In Joomla 1.6 however that doesn’t work by default. An extra security feature has been added to safe guard that information. In this tutorial we will show you how to display the module positions of your [...]

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