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We recently upgraded the MySql installation in our emanilapoetry website which is using WordPress 2.8+ install. The upgrade somehow caused a mismatch in the character sets between WordPress and the database tables, the former using a default character set “utf8″ and the latter using “latin1.”
When our technical people tried using WordPress’ default character set in [...]
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Dear fellow Filpress-ers
I would like to extend my personal invitation to everyone to join us in our community blogs site at http://blogs.thefilipinoaustralian.com
The community blogs site aims to be your mass medium to share your thoughts on any topics in your areas of interest. You may also use it “to vent your anger over an atrocity [...]
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics today released population estimates which showed large population growth occurring in outer suburbs in the 12 months to 30 June 2008.
The largest increases according to ABS occurred in the outer-suburban areas of Wyndham in Victoria which increased by 8,900 with Wanneroo in Western Australia and Blacktown in New South [...]
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With more than a dozen of operational and experimental websites in our group, how do we manage to upgrade the websites’ designs?
These days when most of our websites are on the WordPress platform, we avail of themes that are available in the market. Some are premium themes (meaning we paid for the license to use [...]
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We published our first anthology of selected poems, Sa Kabila Ng Ritmo (Beyond Rhymes), Mga Piling Tulang ng mga Bagong Makata, some years ago.
It was actually in February 2006 when we held the book launch in Greenbelt Park, Makati.
During the last weekend (in between championship matches in the Australian Tennis Open ~ yes, I [...]
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A recommendations page is added in our top panel. The page includes list of products and services used in emanila group websites.
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Last week-end was a long week-end in Australia. It was Australia Day yesterday, January 26 which thus gave our team a very good opportunity to get together and discuss the progress of our website development work.
For myself, I had a quick look at the ongoing design for emanila’s Poetry site to see if we can [...]
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The truth about comment spams at emanila
by Romy on January 15, 2009
in Blog, Side Notes
Like other sites using blogging platforms, emanila has not been spared from the upsurge of comment spams in the last few months.
The principal target is emanilapoetry where as of latest count, Akismet, a companion spam-checking service to WordPress, has reported 15,584 spams since we first installed WP. The numbers are almost 4 times the legitimate [...]
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