Post Format Test Chat

Styling Chat Transcript with WordPress Custom Post Format

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Some people are confused about the Post Formats feature that introduced with Version 3.1, especially how it differs from Custom Post Types. Have you ever known about Tumblr? The Post Format function emulates Tumblr style posts. It all depends on what you want that particular post format to display.
I know that when post formats first came out, the “Chat” format was always one I didn’t really know how to handle. How does the user input the chat into the content of the post? How do we display it?

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Improve Octopress with Advanced Tweaks & Tips

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Octopress is a framework design for Jekyll. It’s static site generator and that’s why it lacks of advance feature like WordPress (Read more about it if you would like to move from WordPress to Octopress). Jekyll support plugins so you can use it for improve your website that’s based on Octopress.
From last post, you’ve known some tips to help your blogging processes with Octopress easier than normal. In this post, I will continuing show you some advanced tweaks to improve Octopress power.

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Best 15 Free Android Apps for Blogging on go

Best 15 Free Android Apps for Blogging

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Now, mobile devices has becoming basic necessity of life. At one point or another, almost all of us have tried blogging in some form. Thankfully, that Android device which you have in your pocket is a valuable tool to help you no matter what your needs are. In this article, you’ll learn about some useful apps to maintain your blog using a phone or tablet.

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Tips and Tricks for Migrating From Wordpress to Octopress

Tips & Tricks for Migrating From WordPress to Octopress

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I’ve migrated one of WordPress Websites to OctoPress. It’s easy to done but OctoPress won’t works well as expected. I spent a week to corrected entire post contents to make it compatible with Markdown format and fix some problems encountered when running new blogging platform. Today, I write this post to share my experiences after migrated from WordPress to OctoPress, hope it can help you if you have the same problem.

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Link sharing on Facebook

Understanding Social Media Meta Tags & Open Graph Protocol

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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

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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

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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

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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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