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Hello Texta Theme

  • Author Thomas Arie on December 17th, 2009

Let’s make this post short. When I worked on my blog in Bahasa Indonesia, I decided to use a simple theme. I don’t want to use too many images. Then, I created a theme. A simple theme. I realized that I haven’t created any single free theme this year — or may be last year. Now, [...]

MediaTemple’s (gs) PHP Injection Exploit

  • Author Thomas Arie on November 26th, 2009

I’m not sure when this problem firstly noted. I just found it today. I don’t have a personal account at MediaTemple’s (gs), but I do maintain an account — with some sites installed under it. MediaTemple reported: Starting Nov 6, 2009, we noticed many customers reporting a new php injection exploit. If you feel that your sites [...]

The Importance of Uptime and Performance

  • Author Thomas Arie on November 20th, 2009

I don’t have very large/busy personal sites to handle right now. To be more specific, I don’t use publishing platform optimization techniques too much. In the last few months, I need to work/deal with something what we all call “optimization”. At the moment, I maintain busy sites powered by WordPress and vBulletin. My responsibility is to [...]

WordPress Theme: With or Without Widgets

  • Author Thomas Arie on November 19th, 2009

I like WordPress and its templating system so far. For many WordPress users, WordPress’ widgets features in theme might be something useful. Especially, for those who do not want to deal with template tags or confusing lines of codes. Personally, when I create WordPress themes for my own sites, I rarely — almost never — [...]

Gallery Album using WordPress

  • Author Lala Cinila on July 14th, 2009

Right now, we're working on a gallery album site. Our client wants to have a photo gallery for her site. There are many great gallery scripts like Gallery Menalto, 4Images, and Coopermine. Every software has its own great features. After having discussion with our client, we decided not to use one of those options. We choose WordPress.

Building video-based content site using WordPress

  • Author Thomas Arie on April 16th, 2009

Previously, I talked a little bit about i-teve. Now, allow me to share a little bit more about some technical stuff. I already mentioned that we decided to use WordPress. The first reason was that because everything -- in this case, i-teve -- can be accomodated by WordPress.

Hello i-teve!

  • Author Thomas Arie on April 15th, 2009

Congratulation for the newly launch video-based site: i-teve! No, I'm not talking about new video sharing provider -- in Indonesia. i-teve is an Indonesia-based site crafted by Budi Putra and Elprisdat M. Zen. My involvement is to provide support for technical aspects. One of them is building the site.

Sheeba Majmudar, Nutritionist from Singapore

  • Author Thomas Arie on February 11th, 2009

Meet Sheeba Majmudar's website -- she is a nutritionist from Singapore.

The Shamrock and the Bird

  • Author Lala Cinila on January 27th, 2009

I am working on a new WordPress Theme right now. It's The Shamrock and the Bird. When I started making this theme, it was based on WordPress 2.6. But, because WordPress 2.7 is already available, I decided to make some changes. Here is a screenshot.

WordPress as CMS Solution, Save Your Money

  • Author Thomas Arie on January 23rd, 2009

WordPress, the publishing platform we're using -- not only for this site, but also for mine and my girl's -- does it again. An interesting story about how WordPress is being used to build City of Albert Lea website. That's right, it is using WordPress 2.7.

Remove/Hide WordPress Version Meta Tag

  • Author Thomas Arie on January 13th, 2009

How to remove WordPress version generator meta-tag in an easy way? We can do it easily by adding/modifying functions.php file inside theme directory.

Theme baru cinila.com

  • Author Lala Cinila on April 30th, 2008

Selama hampir setahun menggunakan theme yang sama untuk cinila.com, Wordpress (blogtool yang saya gunakan) tidak berhenti berkembang. Dari perbaikan security hole, penambahan tagging system, sampai yang terbaru (Wordpress 2.5) dan yang paling dirasakan oleh pengguna Wordpress adalah perombakan design dashboard.

New Platform, New Designs and Upgrades

  • Author Thomas Arie on April 30th, 2008

After being with Movable Type for the last three -- or longer, I think -- I decided to move to other platform. Now, my blog (not this blog!) is powered by WordPress. That's our first news. :)

What is Orangescale’s favorite blogging platform?

  • Author Thomas Arie on December 12th, 2007

A-not-easy-to-answer question. Seriuosly. But, if we have to answer that question, there are two blogging platforms come to our mind: WordPress and Movable Type. Not only because those are our favorite platforms, but also those are platforms we're familiar with.

Small Redesign for Asia Blogging’s City Channel

  • Author Thomas Arie on November 6th, 2007

Yesterday, I just made some changes on My City Blogging, one of Asia Blogging Network's channels. And, this is one of the busiest channel in the network.

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