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Database character sets and WordPress

By Romy Cayabyab January 6, 2010 Leave a Comment

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 the database script, other more serious problems came out. It appears that … [Read more...]

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How to correctly show off your WP blog stats

By Romy Cayabyab November 19, 2009 Leave a Comment

When a WP blog shows off on its sidebar the following: Blog Stats • 3,000 visits or worse, Blog Stats • 3,000 hits without any additional information, I start asking: "What exactly does that mean?" If a blog stats are presented in this fashion, the numbers look like a block of meaningless information. I know this may be hard to swallow, but that is the truth. Let me just backtrack a little bit and elaborate … [Read more...]

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How to blog at WordPress.com

By Romy Cayabyab November 11, 2009 4 Comments

Last September, I signed up for a free account at WordPress.com so I would know how it is to operate in a WP-hosted blogging environment. After seven weeks, I have written more than 20 articles mainly tutorials on how to blog at WordPress.com. Above is a screenshot of one of my more popular articles at WordPress.com. I am very pleased to note that my WP site, Working and WordPress-ing, has helped other WP bloggers with useful tips and … [Read more...]

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Tweeting from your WP blog

By Romy Cayabyab October 22, 2009 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...]

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Customizing your WordPress blog with widgets

By Romy Cayabyab October 6, 2009 2 Comments

I am surprised to see a number of my friends' blogs using the ready-to-use sectional links on the sidebar of their blogs like calendar (useless for new or not frequently updated blogs), archives, etc. when they have so much to display. Either they don't have time to explore the functionalities offered by WordPress.com to change the looks of their theme (at least on the sidebars) or they are not into experimenting. As we wrote in an earlier … [Read more...]

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Why now is the time to upgrade your WordPress install

By Romy Cayabyab September 17, 2009 Leave a Comment

Last month, we wrote Get ready now for WordPress 2.9 and beyond. If you haven't upgraded yet, then this article from the official WordPress blog site should serve another warning. The article is titled How to Keep WordPress Secure which I thought is very mildly titled considering its content. The article reported: Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. This particular worm, like many before … [Read more...]

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