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Use Views to Control Drupal's Taxonomy Pages

Whenever a user clicks on a taxonony term, they will see a page showing all content tagged with that term.

By default, Drupal shows the most recent layout first, using a teaser display.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 17:53

How to Find Your Site's .htaccess File in cPanel

"Where is my .htaccess file?"

This is a problem that we've helped resolve over and over again at OSTraining.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 01:16

Automatically Populate Drupal Fields From Other Content

One of our members wanted to automatically fill in Drupal fields from another node.

It took a little experimentation, but we managed to make it work using the Token, Token Filter and Entity Reference modules.

Friday, September 18, 2015 - 23:32

Debug Your Mobile Site in Android with Chrome Canary

Google's Chrome browser includes DevTools, a built-in feature similar to Firebug.

DevTools is really helpful for debugging CSS problems ... on a desktop computer. However, DevTools is no use on a mobile device.

Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:21

Use Views to Display Fields inside Panels

One of our members had a problem. They wanted to display a large number of images inside a Panel.

The images were all uploaded to a node and they were displaying vertically.

Thursday, September 17, 2015 - 23:08

How to Upgrade from PayPal Personal to Business

When people are setting up an e-commerce store, it's common to use PayPal.

Love it or hate, many of us have PayPal accounts and it's the first way that many of try to accept money.

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 21:32

How to Use Aggregation and Compression in Drupal

By default, the Drupal 7 core loads around 20 different CSS and Javascript files.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - 19:47

Introducing the 5 New Fields in Drupal 8

The Drupal 8 core has far more features than the Drupal 7 core. Many popular contributed modules have been included in the core, including five field types.

Here are the 5 new fields in Drupal 8:

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - 19:13

Redirect Drupal Webform Submissions Based on Answers

This week one of our members came up with an interesting question about the Webform module. They wanted to redirect users to different pages depending on their answers.

Here's how you can make that work using Webform conditionals.

Monday, September 14, 2015 - 19:24

How to Create a REST API Export in Drupal 8

Creating a REST API export in Drupal 7 is not always an easy process.

Saturday, September 12, 2015 - 02:08