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Presenting videos using WordPress

Posted on September 9, 2008 under Tutorials

And without using a plugin.
I thought of creating this post when I was on my way home from the recently concluded WordCamp Philippines. There was a woman who was in Karla Redor’s talk who asked on how she can host the video in her own blog and use WordPress to file it for her. She [...]

Appending the title of the post in “Read more” links for WordPress

Posted on April 28, 2008 under Tutorials

One of the guidelines in usability is that you should provide only one way that will lead them to a certain action. For example, if someone sees 2 option buttons, chances are that they might think that each option button does separate tasks when in fact their functions are the same. Also, we have to [...]

When ‘is_home()’ doesn’t work

Posted on March 8, 2008 under Tutorials

You hacked your WordPress homepage because you don’t intend to make a blog out of it and then all of a sudden the very useful conditional tag <?php if(is_home()) ?> no longer works. It happened to me twice and for that 2 occurrences, I couldn’t find a solution until a couple of days ago.
I’m working [...]