Last year, we installed a WordPress plugin, a post filtering system, in our emanilapoetry website. Our objectives are to help maintain uniformity and consistency in the application of our website rules for posting, and to "force" contributors think of ways on how to make their posts easy to find. The second objective was critical considering that emanilapoetry has thousands of posts with some posts not being distinguishable from others as they … [Read more...]
How did “The correct use of ng and nang” perform among search engines?
October 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
Sometime last year, I posted an article about the correct use of "ng" and "nang". In that article, I shared my observations on the quality of resources then available online covering this particular topic and commented that the references even added confusion to what was already a confusing subject. I wrote: "I also found forums with threads on the subject, but I am not ready to recommend them. They are either fragmented or incomplete. Some … [Read more...]
How to write a news story
March 29, 2010 By 10 Comments
Writing news stories for The Filipino Australian or for other news sites isn't difficult. You will not become an expert news writer overnight, but with practice you should be able to create effective news items. Here are some suggestions which you can also use if you are preparing a media release: Remember the 5Ws and 1H Even in the current blogging and microblogging era, this news-story writing rule formulated many many years ago still … [Read more...]
Tweeting from your WP blog
October 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
If you have a WordPress.com-hosted blog and you also have a Twitter account, how do you tweet from your WP blog? Easy, there is a plugin installed in your WP blog. All you need to do is activate the plugin in your WP blog and authorise the connection in your Twitter account. Each WP post that you write can easily be connected to your Twitter account. But how do you customize your tweets? That is where the problem lies. Well, at least from … [Read more...]
Using PicApp images is like picking apples
October 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I am testing on this post the PicApp feature in embedding images for self-hosted WordPress blogs. I did a similar test for WordPress.com-hosted blogs yesterday, and you can view the results of that test at my Working and WordPress-ing blog. … [Read more...]
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