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WordPress Underwater
I’ve been crazy about scuba diving for some months now, but I’m still very much a WordPress fanatic. Take a look at this dive photo of me and my underwater WordPress notebook, shot by the awesome diver-photographer, Bing Peña last 16 July 2011 at Angel’s Cove. No, the guys at Automattic haven’t come up with [...]
Power up with Jetpack
Good news for WordPress.org users! The cool features you find on WordPress.com are now a plugin away. Automattic has recently released Jetpack: a neat collection of admin and user-interface enhancements for your self-hosted sites. Matt says that Jetpack is “a way to provide feature parity between WordPress.com and WordPress.org for everybody.” I noticed that my [...]
Extending WP search
Due to popular demand, I’ve devised a way to improve the built-in search engine of WordPress for my Davao food blog. WP’s default search isn’t very impressive — ok let’s face it, it’s downright disappointing, especially if your blog has thousands of posts already. (Good thing there’s an abundance of 3rd-party plugins from the huge [...]
Related posts with thumbnail
This is for those of you WordPressers who use YARPP (a.k.a. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin) and any of the excellent themes by WooThemes for your blogs. Especially if you’d like to spice up the plugin’s output a bit. I use YARPP on almost all of my WordPress sites, and I’ve started tweaking the plugin’s [...]
WP theme I’d been looking for
Don’t you have those times when you come across something that makes you go, ‘This is it!!‘? I had such a moment when I saw this awe-inspiring theme by WooThemes.com called CityGuide theme — and that’s because, for a while now, I’d been looking for the perfect theme for my food blog. Among all my [...]
Working with custom taxonomies
Looking around in the WP codex, it dawned on me that there’s not much yet that’s been documented about how WordPress lets us manipulate custom taxonomies. Since WP2.3, we’ve been able to create custom post types, which can have their own custom categories and custom tags. The beauty of this is that, you can divide [...]
Get-together with Matt
It was great to hang out with Matt again after about two years. The first time we met in person was in 2008 for the first WordCamp in the Philippines. When I went to the Automattic offices in San Francisco, he was in Ireland, unfortunately, so it was only this month that I got the [...]
WordPress alive in Kuala Lumpur
Probably the most gratifying compliment I got after my WordPress talk at the Asian Bloggers & Social Media Conference in Kuala Lumpur last 29 July 2010 was when a gentleman from an English-language training company left me his name card with this message scrawled in: “Great presentation! You sold me on WordPress!” In fact, the [...]
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