Improve Octopress with Advanced Tweaks & Tips

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 proccesses with Octopress easier than normal. In this post, I will continuing show you some advanced tweaks to improve Octopress power.

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Five Best Google Reader Alternatives that’re also Free

Five Best Google Reader Alternatives that’re also Free

Because Google Reader is a lot more than an RSS client. That’s why too hard to find a good RSS client for everyone. It syncs news feeds between different apps, allow user can read old news about 1 year from the time added a feed link. You weighed in with tons of nominations—far more great alternatives than we could possibly feature here. Still, some stood out above the others and picked up more nominations. Let’s take a look.

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Best 15 Free Android Apps for Blogging

Best 15 Free Android Apps for Blogging

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 & Tricks for Migrating From WordPress to Octopress

Tips & Tricks for Migrating From WordPress to Octopress

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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Understanding Social Media Meta Tags & Open Graph Protocol

Understanding Social Media Meta Tags & Open Graph Protocol

Do you know the Social Media Meta Tags and Open Graph Protocol can affect social media trafic? When you submit 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 its in the post content.
Social Media Meta Tags and Open Graph Protocol are common names of Google Authorship, Twitter Card, Facebook Open Graph …

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How to load .XResources correctly on Linux

How to load .XResources correctly on Linux

Like anothers, I’m a fan of WordPress so I’m probably on the lookout for news about new versions/developments Next WordPress. Well, the next major release, WordPress 3.6, is already underway – it’s due sometime in April – with the beta version to be released in the second week of March.
Let’s take a look at what’s on the horizon, to make sure our projects are prepared and we don’t encounter any nasty surprises down the road.

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Display WordPress post excerpt instead full content

I recomment you using post’s excerpt in the loop of post instead full content with more tag because you can introduting about your post better than automatic teasing a part from the content. Your post will be look more appealing.
By default, WordPress display the post content in loop with the_content() function in theme files, so your custom excerpt will not display as you want on the homepage (or blog page) without editting it. We can tell WordPress using the Excerpt instead the teaser by filter the_content() with your custom function in functions.php.

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