Category: Blogging
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Figuring Out “Portfolios”
Hi all! I’ve taken a little time off WordPress.com forum volunteering and blogging this week. But I’m still here! I sent my application in and so I have been using this interval to catch up on other non-Automattic related responsibilities I have. But today, I decided to look into a WordPress.com feature I have been…
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Creating a Playlist
Hi everyone! In my post Testing “Shortcode” and Other Embedding Methods, I tried adding a playlist, only to realize I need a paid plan with WordPress.com to do that. I then said… This site is on the free plan, so I will come back to that another day. I have an idea, a legitimate workaround……
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Testing “Shortcode” and Other Embedding Methods
Hi again! In my last post (Thank You To My 25 Followers!), I used some WordPress.com shortcode to add excerpts of previous posts on my blog. Today in this post, I’m going to try out some other Shortcodes and see what they can do! Videos WordPress.com offers video embedding for many different services including Vimeo, TED Talks and YouTube. Each…
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Thank You to My 25 Followers!
What an honour! I cannot believe I have 25 people following my posts from all over the world. I am intrigued to know how people have found me on my journey to working at Automattic. But I wanted to thank you all for your support! I took this time to look back at the last…
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My First Post by Email!
Surprise!! A post two days in a row! ?? This is a short post, testing the "Post by Email" feature of WordPress.com. What I have done is I have written this post as an email, sent it to a "secret" email address linked to my blog and that has automatically created a post for me.…
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Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit – Part 2
Last week, I wrote my first book review / study notes from reading the book Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profits by Inghilleri and Solomon. (If you missed that post, you can check it out here: Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit – Part 1) This post is a continuation of that, but I am only going to look at one chapter today. Hopefully this…