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Lightbox-ing: A new Postie experiment

By Romy Cayabyab November 2, 2011 1 Comment

A reader, Alex G, emailed in to ask how he can have his images display in a lightbox rather than open a separate post page. (Thanks for the query, Alex.) I must admit I have not considered a lightbox display for images sent from my mobile phone. When I install Postie in my blogs, I custom-configure the image display of the Postie plugin to show only a medium size image (which of course is dependent on your Media settings), and I have disabled … [Read more...]

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Image to test Postie’s default settings

By Romy Cayabyab November 1, 2011 Leave a Comment

This is an image sent from my mobile phone to test Postie's default image settings in relation to displaying an image with lightbox effect - after installing and activating Simple Lightbox to produce the lightbox effect. I am setting an image sized 1024px wide. My Media setting is medium sized 475px. … [Read more...]

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How to help your readers find your emanilapoetry posts easily

By Romy Cayabyab October 25, 2010 2 Comments

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...]

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Confession of a “Postie” user

By Romy Cayabyab September 18, 2010 2 Comments

When doing my experimental WP-hosted blogs, it was a delight using the plugin built into WordPress.com which allows me to update my blogs using emails. I found the WP plugin very handy, in fact a necessity, considering that most of the time, I am on the road. I tried using that to my self-hosted WP installs, but to no avail. The problems I had encountered were just too many to list down. So I've been updating my blogs from my desktop … [Read more...]

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How to hide posts on the front page

By Romy Cayabyab June 22, 2009 4 Comments

Your site runs on WordPress and you want to hide posts which belong to certain categories or sub-categories from your front page, search or archives. That should be an easy task. These days, there are a number of WordPress plugins developed for that purpose and here are three of them: Front Page Excluded Categories - Excludes posts in one or more categories from appearing on the front page. You can assign these posts to an excluded … [Read more...]

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How to be contacted the easy and safe way

By Romy Cayabyab March 11, 2009 2 Comments

If you're wondering what type of plugin I am using to run my online Contact form, it is WP-SpamFree, a natural WordPress plugin. Prior to my using this plugin, we had a non-WordPress PHP script installed in our other sites but customizing its looks each time we re-skin our sites was very tedious. Since we installed WP-SpamFree, to date I have not seen any spam ~ from contact or comment forms ~ escaping its protective net. I hope we will … [Read more...]

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