The WordPress Evangelist

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 [...]

I gave a crash course on WordPress last week during a digital activism training for organizations and causes. The Asia Foundation brought together various human rights activists from all over Mindanao to learn hands-on about online social media and how Internet tools can be employed in their line of work. The TAF consultant who helped [...]

The 13th major update of WordPress is finally here! A little late coming, but more than welcome to all WordPress lovers. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s the merger of the two branches of WordPress and now it’s multi-site enabled. I’m working on a Web project that’s built on WordPress 3.0 and that will take advantage [...]

Thanks to the International Visitor Leadership Program fellowship I received from the U.S. Department of State, I was finally able to visit the physical offices of Automattic in San Francisco last 4 February 2010. I was in the States primarily for the IVLP from 21-25 January in Washington, D.C. Too bad, though, Matt Mullenweg wasn’t [...]

I was in the cities of Zamboanga and Isabela from 17 to 20 October for a short vacation and to touch base with the bloggers there. Thanks to Yolynne Medina and Ryann Elumba, I was also able to talk to them about WordPress. On 19 October, I was invited to give a talk at e.AXS [...]