How to recover WordPress posts from NewsBlur

This post is not related with Asia/Japan IT news. When I noticed that there were no latest backups kept on any cloud services by combined mistakes, Asiajin’s past articles since January 2014 seemed to be lost for good. My RSS reader might keep the latest 10 or so, but I was not so eager to… Continue reading How to recover WordPress posts from NewsBlur

WordPress Japanese Official Character Gets A Name

WordPress set [J] its Japanese official character in February 2011, and held a naming contest [J] recently. So its name is Wapuu. Wapuu’s character is copyrighted by the creator Kazuko Kaneuchi [J], but the license is the same as WordPress, GPL version 2 or any later version. Six Apart, a blog application rival who led… Continue reading WordPress Japanese Official Character Gets A Name

NicoNico Douga-like Twitter Widget NiTwPress

NiTwPress, NicoNico Douga flavoured Twitter client widget for WordPress, is made and released by (self-claimed) 17 years old girl sakuratan (Sakura Yamamoto) [J]. Different from twitter’s official blog widget, this widget display your tweets in flowing overlay texts, like Japanese favourite online video site NicoNico Douga. There are many mashup services/tools which take this style… Continue reading NicoNico Douga-like Twitter Widget NiTwPress

The First WordCamp in Japan: WordCamp Tokyo 2008

We Asiajin weblog is built on WordPress, open source blog system on PHP/MySQL. Today I attended the WordPress event WordCamp Tokyo 2008, the first ever WordCamp held in Japan. On a half day conference at Digital Hollywood Shibuya, to over 60 attendees 10 speakers made development/customization presentations, WordPress history case study in high school useful… Continue reading The First WordCamp in Japan: WordCamp Tokyo 2008