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SOPA PIPA Wiki Blackout — Mac Users are Safe!

Fui Fa — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:01:33 +0000

SOPA PIPA Wiki Blackout but Mac Users Can Continue Using Via Dictionary.

It’s a blackout day today on the Internet in response to SOPA/PIPA – Wikipedia decided to shutting down its English site for 24 hours. Internet users outside the US may not think it important – however if this bill gets approval it’s in fact effect Internet users as a whole. Learn more about SOPA/PIPA from Wikipedia.

Others join the blackout include WordPress, Google and many more…

Wikipedia

WordPress

Google

Mac Users – You can still use Wiki as per Normal

Beside using Google Cache Mac users can still Dictionary to excess Wiki.

How Jetpack Pimp Your Blog Annual Report

Fui Fa — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:06:22 +0000

Jetpack.me surprised WordPress users with their colorful and interesting 2011 blog annual report.

Normally we just crunch raw data – boring and less friendly. The good news is that if you’re using a self hosted WordPress and is using Jetpack plugins plus a member of WordPress.com – you have access to this cool annual report.

Github

Those rocket fireworks firing in the browser is really cool. I’ve literally watched it firing away and wondering what it does. I have to tell ya – I really like’em.

On my Google Chrome (16.0.912.63) the overall rendering quality was 25%(avg) and while Safari (5.1.2) at around 92%(avg) pretty slick on Safari!

Annual Public Report

My report look pretty slick eh? You will have to make your report public before you can share with your friends. The report look really fun example…

Crunchy Numbers

So now I know how many whole fills the albert hall! – okay that one was from John Lennon.

Blog Referral

Want to know who brings more visitors to your site? Thank you Bananaz! of cause in this example it may not always reflect the actually meaning. I know Bananaz click the blogroll link more often than not – hahaha

Your Supporters

Oh look! Lulu, Panda, Bananaz and Daisy is my biggest supporters of 2011 – the most active commenters on my blog! Thank you guys – you rocks!

and many more other reports that I think pretty basic and fun. If you really want a full report you still have to go for Google Analytic but Jetpack Blog Annual report makes our blogging so much fun!

Thank you WordPress and to all my readers, friends and supporters. I’ll be a better blogger for year 2012 and I intend to earn RM4000 per month from blogging. Can I do it? you bet I will! (cough!)

Google Font & WP Plugins

Fui Fa — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:33:49 +0000

Just a quick test drive Google Font on my WordPress platform. I was thinking to embed the code on my blog yesterday but when I received a tweet from Smashing Magazine (@smashingmag) today, it seem the hard work has been taken away by Jeff Sebring. Awesome!

The future of the fonts don’t seem to be limited by OS preinstalled font any more. The web would be some how renew with typeface that really cool and free.

Since it’s Google who started it and you bet you would get some type name that start with Android. I guess soon you would find other familiar name too. iPhone_name?

I enjoy playing with the fonts and plugins. Since Google Font Directory (Web Font) is still in Beta stage and so were the Plugins in the early stage I guess we can expect some surprises and awesomeness in the very near future.

The web is just becoming cool again

WordPress 2.6

Fui Fa — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:02:46 +0000

When WordPress 2.5 was launched I waited more than a month before I upgrade, very lazy now that 2.6 is out I am still lazy. Version 2.5 was too much of hassle and since 2.6 is almost identical to 2.5, I guess the upgrade should be not much of problem. I am happy with 2.5 though the upgrade was painful (to me) too much work. I saw someone on my twitter say “wait for 2.6.1” seriously, why?

Thanks to the developers for bringing a fantastic and kick ass works! Thumb up!

While we are on this WordPress topic, since WordPress 2.5 fully support Globally Recognized Avatars or “Gravatar” in short please sign up for an Gravatar account and start load your avatar! It’s would be cool to see your avatar appear beside your comments

WordPress Pretty Permalinks

Fui Fa — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:18:53 +0000

One thing I love about WordPress, if you have time to dig around you just might learn something new and have fun with it.

Thanks to Silvy I have my mod_rewrite fixed and have my Pretty Permalinks working.

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to refer to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. Especially when they are used to link to individual postings, once a story is posted, the URL to it should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink. ~ WordPress.org

Making your Pretty Permalinks work on WordPress

I faces few problem during my configuration process;

WordPress did not create file .htaccess
To fix this problem, I log on to to my shell and do Touch .htaccess and chmod 666 .htaccess. Log on to Options > Permalinks select your common or custom structure than hit Update Premalink Structure.
Error page 404
To fix this problem I have to install mod_rewrite module on Apache web server and support FollowSymlinks. AllowOverride ALL was enable and manual config direcroty was point to my blog root. Log on to Options > Permalinks select your common or custom structure than hit Update Premalink Structure. Woohoo! Now it work like a champ!

Help Files

I highly recommend you to check out WordPress.org. They have comprehensive instructions on how to set up all type of PERMALINKS. If you have problem that you can’t solve you can always refer to WordPress Support Forum.

Check out this post URL on your browser… Yes! Very pretty
http://netster.flexichat.net/2008/03/09/pretty-permalinks/

Good nite all! Hug hug

WordPress 2.3

Fui Fa — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:10:20 +0000

Welcome to my blog! If you happen to hit keywords on the search engine to know how to install your WordPress, I recommend you to read the README files from the installation. However I don’t mine to answer any question you might have. Hopefully I’ll be helpful to you ehem! *Smile*

Finally, I’ve upgraded to WP 2.3.1! I really admire the developers and I’ll continue using WP – until something better replaces WP, obviously. There are few other developers but right now WP is still 100% kickass!

Download latest WP
After “wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz” and “tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz” all files are into right places, nicely done. It takes some time for me but less than 5min. I just wants to be careful of every steps, it will be useful for me to trouble shoot should the upgrade doesn’t work. (I’m not Pro “ma”… so have to do it slowly) The installation package “latest.tar.gz” will always be same file name so just “wget” away from your shell.

PlugIns

After the upgrade, my WP Plugins immediately need new version upgrade. WP will prompt you for the upgrade which is very, very useful! Your previous plugin may not work on WP 2.3, (pity you) but normally the programmer of the respective plugins would response to it fast and friendly. I have upgraded akismet, Get-recent-comments, Subscribe-to-comments, Wp-footnotes, & Wp-useronline.

Of the entire plugin, wp-useronline doesn’t work the way I want. New version of Wp-useronline allows you to uninstall the plugins from within which kind of cool but for some reason I didn’t use it. I still delete the whole thing from my shell manually. So, I’m not so sure if the idea to have “Uninstall” feature was really useful or maybe it’s good to have. Anyway, I still stick to wp-useronline 2.11.

Write Post with Tags

Wow you’ve got “advanced toolbar”! Seriously, I think I won’t use it often other than the colors selections. Launch advanced toolbar with Alt + Shifts + V and you get tools that very familiar to you – as seen in your MS word. Important tools E.g. Format, Underline, Align Full, Font Colors and etc can be found within the toolbar. If you have been using Live Writer, you should quite familiar with it. I’m not really a fan of WYSIWYG tools, these tools generates useless codes that add more weight or broken your blog code. For me, learning the coding it self gives you more control over your blog. Don’t get me wrong, there are good WYSIWYG tools out there. Dreamweaver is one of the fine examples.

Two special writing tools added to WP 2.3 would be the “Paste as Plain Text” and “Paste from Word” this is good for those of you who having problems with your cut & paste that screw up your blog. Choose between these two tools to cut & paste your works to see if it displays the way you want it. I hope these features are up to the challenge. A custom character tool was also included in this new version. One question though, how many bloggers would actually use it?

I like to mention the most welcome feature in WP 2.3 is “Tags” (not meme). The pass versions of WP do not have this feature and I bet lot of bloggers uses more than one “categories” in their post. (I did too, but I’ve delete it. Look silly, Ya know! LOL) “Categories” is equivalent to a “folders” in your PC (Ideally, but some argue about this) “It’s not a norm for users to store same documents to different folder. “Do you?” “I won’t, unless I’ve forgotten the similar folder already been created”

So now, if I write a post about “Speedcat Hollydale” I can tags away E.g. Cat, golf, chicken, naughty, hilarious and etc… However, you should only put tags that’s has a story about a post. You do not want to tags “fridge” and “chicken” to lure your hungry reader’s to-open-fridge-but-no-chicken. Am not so sure if you are ready for your hungry readers to go away!

Pimp My Blog
If you love to “Pimp Your Ride” in UK style or American style… You got to love to Pimp your Blog with WP style. Widgets serve as your gadget in WP. After you have install & activate your plugins you can easily position your design by using the widgets in WP. You don’t have to know coding to make your blog look cool. Plug & Play, kind of.

Import & Export
I didn’t pay attention to these functions from the previous version but I notice something. WP has included more list of blog host or system to help you to import your existing blog to WP. Interestingly, you can also import tags, comments and even categories! E.g. Bunny’s Technorati Tags “Wow… that’s really come in handy eh!” *smile* If you plan to leave, WP will buy you train ticket too! Save it to your PC if you wish.

Too Many cool things about WP
For a new user, you need times to get use to WP. With the compact tools and features you will get lost at times but always tell yourself one step at a time you will master WP in no time at all. I can assure you, what I have covered here in my blog is just few of the features that I think worth mentioning. Now, it’s up to you to discover the rest of the features.

WP is recommended for all monetize blog, self hosted blog, hardworking people, multiple bloggers, control freak, and etc… you will be a very happy person by using WP. *ROTLF*

My last word for those of you who self host WP; Do not enter your wordpress.com account onto “WordPress address (URL)” on your self host WP! I bet you will hate what happen next…

Upgrading WordPress 2.3

Fui Fa — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:32:07 +0000

I was checking around my blog to see what to improve I saw Hor Ny Ang Moh Visiting me again hahahah thanks dude but ain’t update anything yet… just the over night Eggs.

Tomorrow I’m on leave! Yeah! Tonight I got to ready my coffee if not my bread with peanut butter! These will keep me from hunger and able to stand till 4am in the morning (could be, hard to say, I’m a freak!) hahahahahahah

WordPress 2.3 was announce readied for the world 85 days ago and since than 2.3.1 was release with follow up bug-fix and still I’m on WordPress 2.2.3! I guess I’m a bit too out dated.

The good thing about using blog that hosted on a free site is that you don’t have to worry about upgrading and security issues. I on the other hand, put my faith 100% on the efficiency of the blog software. When it gets out dated, you have to change it or you risk security breach.

But than again, where was the fun if everything was pre-ready for you and you just “poke” around eh? That’s not my style hahahahaha I need to lay my hand on it and I’m a control freak. I like to make sure I have the freedom to do what I want to do with the blog.

My next blog is about “170 years old cemetery” I’ll do it after I’m done with my upgrading.

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Cheers & Hugs & Merry Christmas!