Would you like to be able to update your Drupal site and automatically send those updates to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, Ning and dozens of other sites?
This tutorial will show you how.
Our first part will be to create an RSS feed to export new posts. From there we’ll use Twitterfeed.com and Ping.fm to distribute the posts to all our social networks.
Continue reading “Update All Your Social Networks From Drupal”
We teach three kinds of website software: Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. At each class people bring different preconceived notions:
Our job is to convince them they’re wrong. One of the reasons people think WordPress isn’t powerful is because they believe it can’t be used to build an ordinary website with static pages.
Unlike Joomla or Drupal, WordPress doesn’t have a default contact form. However, there are many good options to choose from.
We’re going to recommend a plugin called “Contact Form 7”.
One is warm, sunny and on the beautiful Pacific Ocean.
The other is cold, rainy and on the grey Thames (I’m allowed to make fun of it … I was born in its suburbs)
San Francisco and London and nearly 5500 miles apart and you might not think they have much in common. Normally you’d be right, but this is an exception.
Next week we’ve got two Joomla classes, one in each city:
Continue reading “4 Joomla Classes for the Price of 1 in London and San Francisco”
This week’s tutorial explains how to add metadata to your Drupal site. By default, Drupal has no fields for metadata. Check the source code at http://drupal.org and you’ll see what I mean. To fix that issue, we recommend a module called Nodewords.
Following on from other newsletters where we showed you how to set up Joomla on a Mac and also how to develop locally and moving your site to a live server, this week we’re going to walk you through installing Joomla locally, on a P.C..
We’re going to use WAMP for this tutorial.
WAMP stands for “Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP” which are the different elements that allow you to run Joomla on your computer.
Here’s how you do it:
Would you like to be able to update your Joomla site and automatically send that update to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, Ning and dozens of other sites?
This tutorial will show you how.
Our first part will be to create an RSS feed to export all our new posts. From there we’ll use Twitterfeed.com and Ping.fm to distribute the posts to all our social networks.
Continue reading “Send Joomla Updates to Twitter, Facebook and More”
This tutorial was requested by a student who is learning the Drupal basics. They turned on “Clean URLs” in the Drupal admin area and were surprised to see that the URLs remained largely unchanged:
The student’s comment was:
“that’s still a silly address for my About Us page. I want the address to be /about-us/.”
The solution is the “Pathauto” module and let’s show you how to set it up:
Continue reading “Improving Drupal URLs with the Pathauto Module”
This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and import it into your Joomla site. Each item on the RSS feed will become a separate Joomla article. We use this technique for a couple purposes:
We’re going to use a component called 4RSS from 4RSS.com.
Last week I was fortunate enough to be elected to the Open Source Matters board along with 5 others. After having a very U.S.-centric board, it’s great to see such a wide diversity of new members. Add a Aussie and a penguin and we’d have someone from all seven continents 🙂
Continue reading “Thoughts on Being Elected to Open Source Matters”
This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and import it into your WordPress site. Each item on the RSS feed will become a separate WordPress post. We use this technique for a couple purposes:
We’re going to use a plugin called FeedWordPress.
I must admit I knew nothing about RSSeo before starting this review despite having used other RSJoomla products before.
After few minutes of using it, I realised it was very familiar: RSSeo is similar in many ways to iJoomla SEO which we reviewed last last year. Both are essentially quick and easy ways to manage your site’s metadata, plus some additional SEO tools.
Whereas there were very few metadata options available last year, RSSeo joins iJoomla SEO as a worthy option.