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WordCamp Philippines

If you're a Pinoy blogger or a WordPress user/fan then most likely you've heard or read of this already. But in case you haven't, I have good news for you. There will be a WordCamp held in the Philippines this coming September 6, 2008. If you don't know what I'm talking about here's a little info. What is WordCamp? WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people. WordCamp is a spin off from the popular BarCamp which was a spin off of FooCamp. - Weblog Tools Collection WordCamp Philippines will be the first ever WordCamp organized and held in Asia. WordCamp Philippines is being organized by a group of Filipino bloggers based in Mindanao who were also responsible for organizing the successful 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit held last year. What are the objectives of WordCamp Philippines? ...to encourage more developers to use and deploy WordPress, not only as a blogging engine but also as a full-featured content management system for Web sites. Another is to increase the number of WordPress users and developers in the country. By developers, we mean programmers of WordPress plugins and designers of themes & templates.

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Updates and Upgrades

It’s time once again for blog updates here at JaypeeOnline. Remember when I said that I’d wait for a couple days or weeks before I upgrade to Wordpress 2.2? Well, I kinda got impatient and I found some spare time to do it so I went ahead and did the upgrade. Upgrading to Wordpress 2.2 [...]

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WPZipper

From WPStar comes the WPZipper, a cool new site that lets you generate a fresh Wordpress installation with all the Wordpress plugins that you want or create a "plugins only" installation zip file. WPZipper makes life more easier for Wordpress users.

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Wordpress 2.1 Upgrade

UPDATED: 1/25/07 Upgrading to Wordpress 2.1 wasn’t that difficult as I thought it would be. After talking to Abe of Yugatech, and how he upgraded to Wordpress 2.1, I was convinced that I could do it and that I didn’t have to wait that long to upgrade. In my earlier post, I mentioned about plugin compatibility. [...]

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411 on Wordpress 2.1

UPDATE: Wordpress 2.1 “Ella” is now available for download. Wordpress 2.1 “Ella” is going to be released tomorrow. This will be the first major release since version 2.0. Wordpress 2.1 as any other typical major release will address security & bug fixes and also feature new functionality. Not all people are happy with the release of [...]

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Spam Problems? Challenge ‘em!

I use Akismet to fight blog spam. These past few days I’ve been getting a lot of spam comments. Yesterday morning alone, I found 61 spam comments caught by Akismet overnight. So far, of the 869 spam comments that Akismet has caught, there have been only a few that were able to get through. Even though [...]

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Shortstat on Wordpress 2.0.1

I just recently found out that an upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.1 messes up the WP-ShortStat plugin. At first, I was wondering why my stats weren’t changing after 1 day, I still had the same stats. Checked my Blogflux Mapstats and saw that there were several new hits. I knew something was wrong with the plugin, but [...]

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Search Everything Wordpress Plugin

The built-in search capability of blogs using Wordpress only searches posts and but not pages and comments. Isn’t that weird? I think this is a major issue that they should fix or look into. The Search Everthing Wordpress plugin enables the search of your blog’s pages and comments.

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