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WordPress 3.3: It looks great!

9:08 am | WordPress team just announced that the new version of WordPress is available. It’s WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”. Matt posted some notes about this release. I have WordPress for multi-site installation, and since the previous upgrade went smoothly — except some minor [...]

Missing WordPress’ Jetpack Statistics Data

10:41 pm | I have been using WordPress Stats plugin for long time. And when JetpackĀ  was introduced, I had it installed right away. Everything works great. What I like about WordPress statistics data — from this plugin — is that it can [...]

Design: Indonesia Airlines Websites

9:05 pm | I’m not a frequent flyer, but I sometime visited multiple Indonesia airlines websites just to get some information, especially for the ticket prices. I sometime try the navigation, or test the website features. By this, I want to learn how [...]

Floating CSS menu on YouTube Flash Videos

3:05 am | I currently involve in a website project that put videos as its primary contents. My involvement is not primary on the design. I’m just helping a little. What I like from the process is to find solution. One of the [...]

Google Plus Sticky Header’s User Styles

2:08 pm | Pujiono shared a wishlist to have Google Plus‘ header displayed in sticky style. Since Google does not offer this feature, can we have this feature using a simple trick? The answer is: yes. There is a small extension of User [...]

Five Simple Steps Books

2:06 pm | I think I want these books. And, all books in collection including: A Practical Guide to Designing Grid Systems for the Web by Mark Boulton A Practical Guide to Designing the Invisible by Robert Mills A Practical Guide to Strategic [...]

SSH login without password using OS X

1:17 pm | Lately, I need to deal with more login combinations. And, most of them are about logging in to server via SSH. I decided to create a simple mechanism rather than having some login combinations written somewhere. Why not remember those [...]

Moving a WordPress-powered site to another domain: The Permalink

8:41 am | Yesterday, I needed to move a self-hosted WordPress site to another domain. The process was easy because it’s like copying all files, edit the configuration file and editing internal links in all posts. All process only took less than 15 [...]

Are you using WordPress’ Post Formats feature?

12:57 am | If you have upgraded your WordPress installation to the latest version (right now, it’s Version 3.1), you can take advantage of its “Post Formats” feature. So, what is it anyway? WordPress Codex explains: A Post Format is a piece of [...]

Firefox 4: Graphic Drivers Problems

12:35 am | Yesterday, Firefox 4 was launched and lots of people — including me — are happy now. I heard about Firefox 4 features during last year Pesta Blogger in Jakarta. At that time, Mozilla Indonesia brought some people from the team [...]

After using DISQUS for a month

12:28 am | A month ago, I migrated this blog commenting system to DISQUS and I notice that I got zero spam. Great! Previously, I used Akismet and it also worked great. Akismet can identify comment spams but the they still entered the [...]

Now, this blog is using DISQUS

3:09 am | I decided to switch the commenting system for this blog, from WordPress’ built-in commenting system feature to DISQUS. I was not sure which hosted service I wanted to use — DISQUS and Intense Debate came into consideration. Here are some [...]

He’s 15. And, he creates iTunes Instant

1:43 am | I’m enjoying Google Instant for its speed, suggestions and search results. If you like iTunes (and use its search feature) you might like iTunes Instant. This web-based search engine is developed by Stepen Ou, and he’s 15 now. :) For [...]

Things You Need to Know: Import VOX-powered Blog to Posterous

1:18 am | If you have heardĀ  the news about VOX and you haven’t decided which service you want to use for your VOX blog, this post might be useful (I hope) for you. Since I use Posterous and it offers an import [...]

How to Merge Two Blogs Using WordPress 3.0 Multi-Site Feature

7:33 pm | Now, WordPress installation in this domain (orangescale.net) powers my other blog — in Bahasa Indonesia, using WordPress 3.0 Multi-Site feature. I decided to use this method so that I don’t have to manage two separated WordPress installation. In short: orangescale.net [...]

Some Notes About Enabling Multi-Site option in WordPress 3.0

2:35 am | After upgrading my blog using WordPress 3.0, I was thinking of taking the opportunity to have the multi-site option. Previously, I played with WordPress Multi User. So, I think it would something I’m familiar with. If you’re not familiar with [...]

WordPress 3.0 Error: Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance

8:51 pm | I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 3.0 not long after it was available for download. Everything went without any major issues. I only use it without special hacks. One thing that makes this version a little bit different is [...]

YouTube Embed with New Player Design

9:52 pm | In my previous post, I mentioned about YouTube’s new player design. Right now, it only works on YouTube site — not for videos embed externally. But, with a small modification on its player parameter, we can have the new player [...]

Facebook Like Box Shows 0 Fans?

10:25 pm | I put Facebook Like Box at my videoblog site and so far it works really well. It shows how many Facebook users who “Like” my videoblog page. It worked really well, but not in the last few days. I thought [...]

WordPress 3.0 Installation Process

11:53 pm | Today, I tried the upcoming WordPress 3.0 distribution. It’s not yet released. I installed WordPress 3.0 Beta 2. I do this because I want to know whether I will have some WordPress installations upgraded or not, to find the possibilities [...]

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