Link sharing on Facebook

Understanding Social Media Meta Tags & Open Graph Protocol

Do you know the Social Media Meta Tags and Open Graph Protocol can affect social media traffic? When you are sharing a url to social networks, they will find the social information which you defined between head tags, if it’s not available, they will get it’s in the post content.
Social Media Meta Tags and Open Graph Protocol are common names of Google Authorship, Twitter Card, Facebook Open Graph … Here’s how you can leverage both of them:

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Moving blog from WordPress to Octopress

Things to know before moving from WordPress to OctoPress

I have been using WordPress for few years now and have been very happy with its features. But when you running a network with just only one person, you will be feel tired after 3 – 5 years with the updates, plugins, hosting maintenance. Since a few month ago, I’ve started looking for a new blog platform. The Last week, I’ve switched my personal blog (in Vietnamese) from WordPress to Octopress. With some tools, I converted all the posts, images, code snippets, etc from WordPress to Octopress. It works like charm and running perfectly with heavy traffic but use fewer resources than before.
I write this article to share my experience of this transition for someone who want to switch from WordPress to Octopress like me.

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Color scheme commands

How to load .XResources correctly on Linux

In the X Window System, the X resources are parameters of computer programs such as the name of the font used in the buttons, the background color of menus, etc. They are used in conjunction with or as an alternative to command line parameters and configuration files.

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Display WordPress post excerpt instead full content

The WordPress Excerpt is an optional summary or description of a post; in short, a post summary. After published your post, the excerpt will be display in RSS feeds (if you choose it’s not display your full post), Search results, Tag archives, Category archives, Monthly archives and Author archives. Don’t confused between excerpt and teaser (the part of a post that appears on the front page when you use the More tag). While both are related to the manual excerpt, they are different from it.

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Envato Marketplace – Free Files of the March 2013

Envato Marketplace – Free Files of the March 2013

In February 2013, I’ve just published 2 posts because I had a traditional celebrations call Vietnamese New Year or Tết Nguyên Đán – a Lunar New Year. Since this month, I’m back again and re-start with free files of Envator Marketplace in March – 2013
Envato Marketplaces offers free “premium” product called “Free File of The Month”. The start of the month always brings free files for us all, and March 2013 is no different the Envato marketplace again are offering new awesome collections of free premium files from different marketplace in one place.
Download and use all files for free on your web pages, blogs and projects. This offer is for registered members only. All you have to do is create an account from one of the market places and you get access to all Envato Marketplaces.
Note: Since February 2013, Envator announced about Tut+ Closing Down to focus more on Tut+ Premium website.

Envato Marketplace – Free Files of the March 2013
Envato Marketplace – Free Files of the March 2013

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