i.PH going the WordPress way

Was just talking to Ginny of i.PH about how to effectively educate people on how to use blogging tools like i.PH and WordPress. I suggested that aside from the usual FAQ and knowledgebase, a full featured tutorial animation might be the best solution.

I myself have been getting a lot of emails from newbie bloggers how to do this or do that in WordPress. I reckon that if these kind of how to’s are your basic WP management tasks, then a Flash tutorial would really be a good way to speed up and make things easier for the newbies. In fact this site is already selling WordPress tutorials on video. Looks like a nice business, eh?

Anyway, going back to the topic — Ginny did informed me that i.PH is porting Calliope to WordPress, or something to that effect. To those unfamiliar with Calliope, it’s the software which runs i.PH. Check out the Calliope Blogs website here which dotPH Technologies have been licensing to ISPs, Web Hosts and Registrars like Dotster for quite some time now.

Several of the WP features are not yet found in i.PH and by porting it, i.PH bloggers would be happy to get the full-features of WP and the usability features of Calliope. If that also includes some additional theming features like adding Adsense codes and importing from other blogs like BlogSpot, then that would be cool.

On a side note though, someone did asked me about a possibility of GPL codes included into Calliope. I don’t know actually and have not asked them about it.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

7 Comments

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11 years ago

I almost never leave a response, however i did some searching and wound up here i.PH going
the WordPress way – YugaTech | Philippines, Tech News & Reviews.
And I actually do have a couple of questions for you if you do not mind.
Could it be just me or does it look as if like a few of the responses come across as
if they are left by brain dead individuals? :-P And, if you are writing on
additional social sites, I would like to follow anything fresh you have to post.
Could you make a list of all of all your public pages like your twitter
feed, Facebook page or linkedin profile?
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13 years ago

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Ykodal says:

14 years ago

how to place an adsense code in i.ph?
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melardenio says:

14 years ago

very nice for SEO ang i.ph isang comment lang dami ng links..i wonder how they didn’t notice that..
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Fleeb says:

19 years ago

I just found out, Blog:CMS itself is build on top of NucleusCMS (highest rated by opensourcecms)…

Core libraries are mostly NucleusCMS
BB is PunBB
Image gallery is Singapore Photo Gallery
and Wiki is DocuWiki

In that sense, I think we can ask for the source code of i.ph… :D
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markku says:

19 years ago

I always felt that Calliope ‘felt’ like some form of WordPress and other open source blogging applications. Now that they’re going the WordPress way, they should be sure to comply with the GPL, or it could be one big mess.

On second thought, they could be just doing this to hop on the increased interest in WordPress, sort of taking a free ride. Don’t you think? ;)
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Fleeb says:

19 years ago

As I know, Calliope is created in top of Blog:CMS, so Calliope is licensed in GPL… I do not know where to get the code though.
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