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New Members: APO SON ALAS CANADA

July 13th, 2008

Alpha Phi Omega Southern Ontario Alumni Association Canada (APO SON ALAS CANADA) has accepted and admitted its newest members: Brother Dodong Buhay, Alpha Iota 76 & Sis Gina Dhalen, Delta Delta 84A. They were given their APO SON ALAS CANADA tee-shirts & pin by APO SON ALAS CANADA president Sis Lea Tuazon. They were warmly welcomed by the members of APO SON ALAS CANADA. Click HERE to view photos.

Solidarity, Friendship & Cooperation: APO SON ALAS

July 13th, 2008

Current presidents & past presidents & leadership of Alpha Phi Omega Toronto Alumni Association (APO TORONTO), APO Mississauga Alumni Association (APO MAA) & APO Southern Ontario Alumni Association Canada (APO SON ALAS CANADA) met for the first time ever to discuss solidarity, friendship, cooperation and joint activities especially in conjunction with the 9th Alumni Council of North America convention & ARNA conference come Aug. 28 to August 31, 2008 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Present were APO Toronto president brother Rod Panizares (Eta) who extended the invite to the presidents for the momentous event & was the meeting host, APO MAA president brother Larry Receno (Gamma Rho) & sIs Lea Tuazon Victoria (Delta Nu), president of APO SON ALAS. [Click HERE to view photos.] Continue Reading »

Hello world!

June 27th, 2008

The APO Webteam, The APO Commission on Membership and Pres. Mel Adriano’s Performance Team proudly brings you Version 1.0 of the official APO Wordpress Theme.
Now your chapter or alumni association could have its very own website patterned after apo.org.ph with its own content management system powered by Wordpress for free!

The following is a list of some of the features that come standard with WordPress, however there are literally hundreds of plugins that extend what WordPress does, so the actual functionality is nearly limitless.

Key Features of Wordpress:

  • Full standards compliance — We have gone to great lengths to make sure every bit of WordPress generated code is in full compliance with the standards of the W3C. This is important not only for interoperability with today’s browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation. Your web site is a beautiful thing, and you should demand nothing less.
  • No rebuilding — Changes you make to your templates or entries are reflected immediately on your site, with no need for regenerating static pages.
  • WordPress Pages — Pages allow you to manage non-blog content easily, so for example you could have a static “About” page that you manage through WordPress.
  • WordPress Links — Links allows you to create, maintain, and update any number of blogrolls through your administration interface. This is much faster than calling an external blogroll manager.
  • Cross-blog communication tools— WordPress fully supports both the Trackback and Pingback standards, and we are committed to supporting future standards as they develop.
  • Comments — Visitors to your site can leave comments on individual entries, and through Trackback or Pingback can comment on their own site. You can enable or disable comments on a per-post basis.
  • Spam protection — Out of the box WordPress comes with very robust tools such as an integrated blacklist and open proxy checker to manage and eliminate comment spam on your blog, and there is also a rich array of plugins that can take this functionality a step further.
  • Full user registration — WordPress has a built-in user registration system that (if you choose) can allow people to register and maintain profiles and leave authenticated comments on your blog. You can optionally close comments for non-registered users. There are also plugins that hide posts from lower level users.
  • Password Protected Posts — You can give passwords to individual posts to hide them from the public. You can also have private posts which are viewable only by their author.
  • Easy installation and upgrades — Installing WordPress and upgrading from previous versions and other software is a piece of cake. Try it and you’ll wonder why all web software isn’t this easy.
  • Easy Importing — We currently have importers for Movable Type, Textpattern, Greymatter, Blogger, and b2. Work on importers for Nucleus and pMachine are under way.
  • XML-RPC interface — WordPress currently supports an extended version of the Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and finally the MovableType API.
  • Workflow — You can have types of users that can only post drafts, not publish to the front page.
  • Typographical niceties — WordPress uses the Texturize engine to intelligently convert plain ASCII into typographically correct XHTML entities. This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands.
  • Intelligent text formatting — If you’ve dealt with systems that convert new lines to line breaks before you know why they have a bad name: if you have any sort of HTML they butcher it by putting tags after every new line indiscriminately, breaking your formatting and validation. Our function for this intelligently avoids places where you already have breaks and block-level HTML tags, so you can leave it on without worrying about it breaking your code.
  • Multiple authors — WordPress’ highly advanced user system allows up to 10 levels of users, with different levels having different (and configurable) privileges with regard to publishing, editing, options, and other users.
  • Bookmarklets — Cross-browser bookmarklets make it easy to publish to your blog or add links to your blogroll with a minimum of effort.
  • Ping away — WordPress supports pinging Ping-O-Matic, which means maximum exposure for your blog to search engines.



You may view the APO Wordpress theme demo in action here.


For those of you who know their way around Wordpress you may download the files from:
room 214/Reports and other Downloadables/miscellaneous/apotheme.zip
or you may contact ashary@apo.org.ph for more info on how to get your own APO Website today!

This project is in cooperation with APO-PHIL Webhosting.