Wordpress 2.6!

You won’t believe my horror yesterday when this whole blog went DOWN after I updated to Wordpress 2.6. @_@

I literally panicked I ended up trying to fixing this blog at work (hiding from my boss, of course). At the end though, I was unable to do a database repair in my phpmyadmin, I contacted my blog’s server’s tech support asking for help. I’m so happy they responded promptly to my call!

I gave my ticket before lunch hour and my blog was fixed by late afternoon! Whew! Thank goodness!

I’m so happy I’m going to blog about Lights Out Philippine Yaoi Convention.

Lights Out would like to invite all Filipino yaoi fans to the the 5th Lights Out: Five Years of Fantasy! The convention will be held on the 6th of September 2008 at Ikeda Hall/Balay Kalinaw (next to Ilang-Ilang Residence Hall), University of the Philippines Diliman Campus, Quezon City. Festivities will start at 1:00 PM and will wrap up at 7:00 PM.

Tickets to the convention are pegged at PhP 150 each (inclusive of single-use Event Badge and Library pass), while tickets to Cafe Le Mirage are at PhP 80 each (inclusive of one half-hour tea set). Please visit the Events page for more information.

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Withdrawals irk

Deprivation.

The feeling of withdrawals from the absence of something that constitutes the daily life of an individual.

That is how I describe deprivation. That is how I felt since June 10, when I am unable to access my blog till yesterday, when at last, my blog has transferred to a new server Licorne and I purchased a few weeks back to expand the functionality of our websites.

Another good news is, Widespaces (this blog’s former name) has taken Chibilicious.com as its new domain name. As I previouosly mentioned from a past entry, handling two blogs focusing on my interests resulted with me posting very similar entries on both blogs. Though Chibilicious before focused on chibi collections and former Widespaces concentrated more on my various interests, it can’t be helped that Widespaces had a section on what I want to talk about in Chibilicious. That was where my problem was.

So I decided to instead implement my blog on Chibilicious and take care of it to the best of my abilities. Also, I now look on this blog as a project to help on my internet endeavors. Internet Marketing, SEO, web design, ebooks, networking etc. I used to look on my blog as something haphazardly done, tossing entries here and there, not taking any particular attention to details and functionality.

That has all changed now. I had taken pains to research on wordpress plugins providing me with the functionalities I want. I delved into various wordpress theme archives to find a minimalistic approach for layout. I had thought a lot of what kind of entries I would like to place in here. I want to place a photo album of all images I like. I want a place wherein other could avail of ebooks I like to read. I want a nook on the net to list down all my internet interests in one organized page.

Yes, I believe I’m taking an interest on upgrading my knowledge on internet marketing. I want to have an online business of sorts. I want to partake in e-commerce even in a small way.

I want to be my own boss, in the comfort of my own home I will build one day, in my own pace, in my own leisure. I’m one of those people who aren’t aiming for a high position in a corner office in some prestigious company. I just want stability and comfort. I do not aim for riches. Just a content life. A hassle and financial problem free life. That’s all I want.

I’m taking all of these one step at a time. I’m taking this opportunity to learn everything slowly but surely while I still can.

Also, I plan to enter this blog on the next local Webby awards. So I’m doing my best to get everything organized till that day. Please wish me luck for it! *bows*

P,S, As for previous entries of Chibilicious.com, I will place them here randomly. I cannot bear the thought of removing those permanently since I really love those visuals and I think they provide a bit of comfort and enjoyment to everyone, even if they are generally chibi in nature. ^_^

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Wordpress Plugins search

It’s only recently I decided to do a total makeover to Widespaces. First, I chose a theme from a wordpress theme directory and opted for whiltem clean, minimalistic look. With the easy part done, I then had to work on the functionality of the blog. That would mean I have to reply on plugins since I have no strong knowledge on php and database programming to edit the wordpress code by myself.

I found tons and tons of plugins to consider. To easily download the right one I decided to do a research on top best wordpress plugins. Thus, I came to this page, titled TOP 30 Wordpress Plugins in Blogosphere.

True enough, some of these plugins were already included in the wordpress theme I chose and they were pretty good.

Unfortunately, due to wordpress’ constant upgrading (which, I hate sometimes but can’t do without since it does involve security issues), I can’t figure out to make some of the plugins work. It seemed some are not compatible anymore the to recent 2.2 version of wordpress and that pisses me of. I had to rely on some later versions of an alternative plugins or just do without.

As of the moment you are reading this post, the plugins below are the plugins currently working in this blog.

1. Ad Rotator: ver 1.0 Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file By Angsuman Chakraborty.
2. Akismet: ver 1.14 Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service. You can review the spam it catches under “Manage” and it automatically deletes old spam after 15 days. Hat tip: Michael Hampton and Chris J. Davis for help with the plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.
3. AMM – Amazon Media Management Extension: ver 1.5 The Amazon Media Manager for Wordpress 1.5 By Denyerec and Marcel Dunn.
4. Content E-mail Responder: ver 2.3 Emails commenter when an admin replies to the comment, if commenter is not subscribed to email updates via Subscribe-to-Comments. Original idea/coding by Andrew Flusche By Owen Cutajar.
5. Exec-PHP: ver 3.2 Allows < ?php ?> tags inside the content or excerpt of your posts and pages to be executed just as in usual PHP files By Sören Weber.
6. Fancy Categories: ver 0.2 Replacement function for displaying fancy categories that use javascript for collapsable categories By Andrew Rader.
7. Fold Page List ver 1.74 Provides PHP functions to display a folding page tree By Rob Schumann.
8. Google Sitemaps: ver 2.7.1 This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. By Arne Brachhold.
9. Hello Dolly (default plugin of wordpress): ver 1.5 This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page. By Matt Mullenweg.
10. My Link Order : ver 1.0 A Wordpress plugin to finally let you set the explicit order of links and link categories By froman118.
11. Popularity Plugin: ver 1.2.1 This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values. Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports. You can also use the included Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog. By Alex King.
12. PrestoGifto: ver 0.9 Now WordPress users can add Cafepress products to their blog by querying millions of products from the CafePress marketplace. By PrestoGifto.com.
13. SimplyPie for Wordpress: ver 1.2 Wordpress plugin for SimplePie: a super-fast, easy-to-use RSS and Atom parser. By Ryan Parman and Geoffrey Sneddon.
14. Stick Post: ver 0.1 this plugin allow to stick a post to the top of the homepage By olivM (olivier.mourlevat@heaven.fr).
15. Wordpress Database Backup: ver 1.7 On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.
16. WP-Amazon: ver 2.0 Beta 1.1 WP-Amazon adds the ability to search and include items from Amazon to your entries. By Rich Manalang.
17. WP-PageNavi: ver 2.10 Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog. By GaMerZ.

The ff plugins are those I want to use in my blog but can’t seem to work

1. Sociable: ver 2.0 Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. Go to Options -> Sociable for setup. By Peter Harkins.
2. WP-PageNav ver 2.10 Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog. By GaMerZ.

Can somebody help me with the latter plugins. They don’t seem to be compatible with wordpress version 2.2. I’m not really sure though.

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