The WordPress Evangelist

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve recently purchased a premium plugin for creating the mobile edition of my WordPress sites: WPtouch™ 2.0 Pro. I’d been using the free version of WPtouch (up to v1.9.16) and had been quite happy with it, so I decided to give the paid version a go. The premium version promised better features, you see. And, [...]