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WordPress Summer of Code 2009

Summer is soon approaching and I’m pretty sure students are looking forward to spending their time on the beach, hanging out with friends or staying at home and doing nothing at all. For those of you who don’t have any plans or don’t have anything to do this summer, instead of wasting time doing nothing [...]

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HowTo: Widgetize a WordPress Theme

From my experience reviewing different WordPress themes, I noticed that one of the main features that a lot of users look for in a theme is being “widget-ready“. This is due to the fact that widgets have become a very popular tool for bloggers especially for WordPress users. Also, a lot of WordPress plugins these [...]

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WPLookup: WordPress Function/Tag Lookup Tool

The other day, while I was tweaking my blog theme I was having an issue with a certain WordPress template tag. Whenever I need help with WordPress template and function tags, I usually do a Google search using the specific template or function tag. This time, I tried using WPLookup, a WordPress function/template tag lookup [...]

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WordPress 2.7.1 Now Available

Just a couple hours ago, WordPress announced that the final version of WordPress 2.7.1 is now available for download/upgrade. This comes after WordPress 2.7.1 Release Candidate 1 was released to the public a few days back. For those who already have installed WordPress 2.7 or 2.7.1 RC 1, all you need to do is upgrade via [...]

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WordPress.tv

One of the things Matt Mullenweg talked about during his State of the Word at WordCamp Las Vegas was Automattic’s new project called WordPress.tv Two days ago, WordPress.tv was finally launched. Here’s a short video introduction for WordPress.tv: Here’s the post from the WordPress Blog. Today we’ve switched on WordPress.tv, your visual resource for all things WordPress. On WordPress.tv, [...]

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WordCamp: Las Vegas Photos

As promised, here are some of the photos I took during WordCamp: Las Vegas. I didn’t post all of it coz some aren’t that good and/or blurred. I totally regret not taking more photos but I’m happy coz I was able to have my picture taken with the organizer John Hawkins, Lorelle VanFossen and of [...]

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WordCamp: Las Vegas LIVE

I’m now here with my friend Allan at the Palace Station Hotel & Casino for WordCamp: Las Vegas. We’ve received our badges and tshirts, setup our laptops and just waiting for the program to start and the first speaker to go up on stage. This will be my first time to live blog an event [...]

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WordCamp: Las Vegas

If you haven’t heard of it yet, the first WordCamp for 2009 will be held this coming weekend, January 10-11 at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Why am I excited about this event? Only one reason. I’m attending it! Yes folks, I’ll be attending WordCamp: Las Vegas. I’m both surprised [...]

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WordPress Schwag

I love WordPress! I’m not only an avid fan and user but I also consider myself as an advocate of WordPress as evidenced by this blog where many of my posts are about WordPress news and updates, WordPress themes and plugins. I’ve been using WordPress for about five years now. I don’t exactly remember how [...]

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WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane”

A week after releasing it in WordPress.com and a day after releasing Release Candidate 2, the dev team finally released WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” to the general public. This version of WordPress is named after American jazz saxophonist and composer, John Coltrane. I know this is a little bit late and I know that some of [...]

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WordPress 2.7 RC 2

I know that most of you who aren’t using WordPress 2.7 beta versions or RC 1 can’t wait for the final release to announced. Although it’s almost near, the development team feels that it’s not quite ready yet. There comes a time in every WordPress release when it’s ready for the world , to come out [...]

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