Alt Text is an essential web accessibility affordance for anyone using a screen reader. If you want your site to be accessible as defined by the Web Content Accessibility Guides (WCAG), then you need to consistently and appropriately use alt text. Used correctly, alt text can even improve your site’s SEO. Read on for an Read More >
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Drupal Education Channel
Welcome to our Drupal Education Channel, your go-to resource for mastering the art of Drupal web development. Whether you’re a beginner looking to build your first website or an experienced developer seeking to enhance your Drupal skills, you’ve come to the right place. Our comprehensive tutorials cover everything from Drupal installation and configuration to advanced theming, module development, and site optimization. With step-by-step guides, practical tips, and real-world examples, we’ll help you unlock the full potential of Drupal, a powerful and flexible content management system (CMS) that’s trusted by organizations worldwide. Dive in, and let’s embark on a journey to harness the full potential of Drupal for your web projects.
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Getting Started with Drupal
Here’s a short list of tasks you’ll need to know when building a new Drupal site.
Basic Tasks
After getting your website set up, these articles can guide you through adding important features to your site.
Advanced Tasks
These guides cover topics that businesses may need to understand for better marketing and regulation compliance.
Search Engine Optimization
Check out these recommended Drupal modules for improving SEO and website performance.
Security and Privacy
These are recommended features to improve your website security and support for user privacy.
Other Drupal Tutorials
- Managing Users in Drupal
- Managing Existing Sites Using Composer
- How to Install Composer for Drupal
- Understanding Composer for Drupal
- Responsive Favicons Drupal Module
- Configuring the Drupal Webform Module
- How to Manually Install Drupal on a Server
- Updating Drupal Using Softaculous
- How to Install Drupal Using Softaculous
- Drupal Security.txt File
- Civic Accessibility Toolbar Drupal Module
- Kanban Project Management with Drupal Burndown Module
- Drupal Mixpanel Integration Methods
- How to Configure the Drupal Redirect Module
- Drupal CKEditor Content Accessibility Auditor
- How to Create an Ads.Txt File in Drupal
- How to Configure the Social Media Links Block and Field Drupal Module
- How to Configure the AddToAny Drupal Module
- How to Configure the Real-time SEO for Drupal Module
- How to Contact Drupal Developers
WordPress 5.9 Release Notes
The WordPress 5.9 is officially here. In this article, we will cover what all is included in WordPress 5.9 and take a closer look at the new features and upgrades. WordPress 5.9: What’s New? Full Site Editing Twenty Twenty-Two Default Theme Other Improvements and Updates How to Install WordPress 5.9 Need to build your WordPress Read More >
Joomla! 4.0 Smart Search
Smart Search is an improved component of Joomla 4.0. Joomla 3.x included both search and Smart Search, but as of version 4.0, only Smart Search remains as part of the default install. Joomla 4.0 Smart Search uses article content, tags, contacts, indexing, and filters as some of the features to aid users in searching content Read More >
Our extensive library of over 5,000 helpful articles could not be possible without our writers and contributors. With backgrounds, education, and knowledge ranging from server technology to digital marketing/SEO, to treading software, our writers are the reason the InMotion Hosting Support Center continues to grow and assist you will all your digital needs.
Below, meet some of our writers and contributors.
Alyssa K.
Alyssa started working for InMotion Hosting in 2015 as a member of the Technical Support team. Before being promoted to Content Writer, Alyssa developed expertise in fields such as server hardware, Linux operating systems, cPanel, and WordPress. She now works to produce quality technical content about cutting-edge topics such as data center infrastructure, machine learning, and graphics card technology.
Arnel C.
Arnel has been an InMotion Hosting employee for over 10 years working first in technical support and then as a content writer. His interest and content focuses on Apple-related devices, YouTube video production, WordPress-based websites, creative software, and providing information for resolving problems.
He is also busy with the local Filipino American cultural/educational programs. Arnel’s many personal interests include music, photography, art/graphic design, and history. He loves a good story and has a passion for helping people.
Videos by Arnel:
Chris M.
Christopher joined the InMotion content writing team in 2015. His areas of special focus include Debian server management, Git version control, the based Emacs editor, and how these various technologies work together.
Videos by Chris:
John-Paul B.
John-Paul has been a technical content writer for InMotion since 2013 and building websites since 1996. He studied Wireless Technology and has spent the last 20 years in IT, starting off as a hardware tech and home theater expert before moving on to networking. He has been hosting websites for bands and friends since the 90’s and using cPanel and WordPress since around 2005. He’s also a father, martial arts instructor, and musician.
John-Paul will be teaching WordPress Troubleshooting at WPCampus 2021. Here are some of his recent videos:
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JT S.
JT is a Technical Content Writer focused on cybersecurity. He believes everyone should strive to meet digital privacy and web accessibility standards for a truly inclusive user experience. He was the lead writer for our VPS security eBook. He is also passionate about musicianship.
Ronnie H.
Ronnie is a technical writer and content specialist at InMotion Hosting with a background in educational technology.
Ronnie’s background in instruction and educational technology, combined with a strong interest in approaching problems from multiple perspectives, has led him to focus on breaking down complex problems and simplifying the difficulties that come with building your first site. This ranges from collecting beginner resources for those new to web design or the command line, to tinker-friendly software like MyBB bulletin boards.
Videos by Ronnie:
Sam B.
Sam Brown is a retired print and radio journalist turned content writer for InMotion Hosting. He has also spent time as a communications specialist for a leading public school system and a Fortune 500 company.
He covers a wide range of topics but spends a lot of time on WordPress, thought leadership, and help articles for bloggers and small businesses. Sam also enjoys doing more long-form work that focuses on helping small businesses find success such as the Business Owners Guide To WordPress.
He has a passion for researching and writing articles on topics that require him to learn something new. Recently, he has been diving into the world of cognitive cloud computing, GPU parallel computing, and artificial intelligence.
Stormy S.
Stormy is a content writer who focuses on WordPress, web design and help articles for small businesses. With a background in broadcast journalism and public relations, she has a passion for creating digestible content that can bridge the gap between beginners and the digital world.
Videos by Stormy:
Todd R.
Todd is the President at InMotion Hosting and BoldGrid, as well as a big OpenStack fan!
Force HTTPS with the .htaccess File
Force HTTPS connections with the .htaccess to make sure every connection is a secure one. Your website’s visitors should be accessing your site using an SSL-encrypted connection for added security, accessibility, or PCI compliance. If you’re unfamiliar with SSL, our article, “What is SSL and why is it important?” will get you up to speed. Read More >
How to Configure the Real-time SEO for Drupal Module
XML Sitemaps and meta tags can be set-and-forget configurations. But their benefits won’t sustain well without good copywriting for search engine optimization (SEO). Real-time SEO for Drupal resolves this by analyzing your articles and basic pages as you write. Therefore, you can make necessary changes in real-time to ensure your content has good SEO and Read More >
How to Contact Drupal Developers
Being told by technical support that “you’ll need to contact a Drupal developer” for issues with a PHP-based content management system (CMS) rarely feels satisfying. Enlisting a third party web developer/designer for assistance means more work and research. You need to find a developer with some important traits: These are the same traits that helped Read More >
How to Use the Simple XML Sitemap Drupal Module
Search engine optimization (SEO) involves every aspect of your branding efforts: The Metatag Drupal SEO module helps with a lot of the core and social media components. But you still need to address the final item on your SEO checklist: a Drupal XML sitemap. Discover the ultimate in Drupal Web Hosting. Elevate your website’s performance, scalability, Read More >
VIM Text Editor (Basics)
Vim is the successor of the vi terminal text editor with a long list of powerful features. Short for “Vi IMproved,” Vim is sometimes pre-installed on popular, staple Linux distributions such as CentOS and Debian. For others including Linux Mint, you might instead have the original vi or vim.tiny, a slimmed down variant of Vim Read More >
How To Optimize Your BoldGrid Site
By this point, if you have installed your first inspiration, it’s time to check your site for possible improvements in speed and performance. Installing the inspiration has given your site a certain look and feel. This kind of customization gives your site a personal touch. But once those considerations are taken care of, and you’re Read More >
Building Accessible WordPress Contact Forms with Contact Form 7: Accessible Defaults
Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular WordPress contact form builders for a few reasons: It’s completely free In-depth input validation checks for better security against phishing and social engineering attacks The ability to add customize every aspect of user experience (UX) from what can be in the form to how the submitted Read More >
WordPress 4 Release History
The most popular website creation platform is constantly evolving from one release to the next. However, if you want to test an older version of WordPress, or are simply interested in the progression of WordPress, you can still review old release history. This article will outline major security and version releases within WordPress 4.0, or Read More >
WordPress 5.6 Release Notes
WordPress 5.6 was officially launched on December 8, and the final WordPress release of 2020 came packed with new updates and features. The development team focused on continuing to improve the Gutenberg block editor in this release, as well as enhancing security with expanded auto-updates, and bringing users a brand new Twenty-Twenty-One theme. But that Read More >
Why Patience is Key When Finding Your WordPress Team
WordPress is the CMS of choice for more than one-third of the websites on the internet, and it’s easy to see why. It’s open-source, user-friendly right out of the box, and is backed by a supportive and welcoming community. Among that community is Harry Jackson, InMotion Hosting Products Manager. Harry is a huge advocate of Read More >
WordPress Through the Ages
Currently responsible for powering more than 35 percent of the internet, WordPress is hands-down the most popular CMS available. But its rise to the most used CMS didn’t happen overnight. Releasing a new version of its product an average of about every 152 days, WordPress has continued to grow and improve throughout time via the Read More >
How to Create and Add a Logo To WordPress
When creating a WordPress website, one of your first tasks will be adding your company logo. Adding your logo to your WordPress website header will help your customers recognize your site and build trust around your digital brand. It verifies your website with users and encourages them to buy your product/service and/or become regular readers. Read More >
How to Create Professional Email Addresses for Your Business
Your business email address is a very important element in positioning your business for success. It acts as your online business card, reminding the customer of your business and brand each time they reach out to you. It’s important to get it right. This article will outline considerations when creating your professional email addresses for Read More >
Ways to Contact WordPress Developers
TL/DR: Plugin/Theme developer, WordPress Slack, IRC channels, our Community Support Center, and Web Design Services We get it. Customers don’t want to be told to “contact a developer” when there’s a coding issue. You may not want to hire a web designer because you trust yourself more than someone with positive ratings on Fiverr or Read More >
How to Get the Most Out of Our Community Support Center
In this article, we cover how to get the best experience with our Community Support Center. Whether you have general questions about new software in Softaculous Instant Installer, or more advanced questions about GDPR compliance or root access in VPS Hosting, we want to ensure you know how to help us help you in our Read More >
