October 5, 2011
If you have a self-hosted WordPress site with a blog-type theme ~ the one which displays your posts in the frontpage in column and by date formats (like this site) ~ the easiest way to hide in your frontpage posts under certain categories is to use “category excluder” plugins. (The image on this post uses [...]
September 28, 2011
I finally found the time to revisit “Working and WordPress-ing” at WordPress.com. Below is my latest post: It has been more than a year since I made my last post on this site. At the request of some dear friends, I thought I give the control panel of my site at WordPress.com another look to [...]
Following a tip in Comments to a WP’s support page on how to embed a Vimeo video, here’s a demo: ] The above video was embedded using this shortcode (no space after [ and before ] ): [ vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/7243598 ] How to resize The above video can be resized from the standard 400×300 to [...]
Upon the request of some friends, I am revisiting my earlier post, “Experimenting with PicApp images in my blog“. For this post, we are running two tests, namely: embedding the PicApp code using the “image code”, and embedding the PicApp code using the WordPress.com shortcode. I selected the following options to generate the codes: image [...]
I mentioned in my earlier posts that, compared with self-hosted sites which I am very much familiar with, a blog at WordPress.com is restrictive. For one, I could not really do much about customizing a theme unless of course I buy credits to allow me to add custom CSS. Also, I could not install my [...]
For the last few five years or so, we have been using WordPress as a blog platform or a CMS in most of our websites. Being an open-source, we can tap onto the creative and ingenuous works of WordPress community of bloggers, developers and designers to produce easy-to-manage websites. As a result of our 24/7 [...]
A pleasant blogging experience at WordPress.com, so far
September 16, 2009
I mentioned in my earlier posts that, compared with self-hosted sites which I am very much familiar with, a blog at WordPress.com is restrictive. For one, I could not really do much about customizing a theme unless of course I buy credits to allow me to add custom CSS. Also, I could not install my [...]