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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:09:13 +0000

This issue was resolved when WordPress realized I wasn’t the only one with this issue and added an auto-save feature. Thanks for the mention of the Firefox extension – just one more reason I adore that browser.

By: Sanne

Sanne — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:50:13 +0000

I know I’m replying to an old post here, but in case the first problem still applies: I highly reccomend getting the Lazarus add-on for FireFox. It keeps track of eveything you type in textboxes, and will ‘resurrect’ it in case something happens before you get a chance to save it. Also a lifesaver when your browser crashes while in the middle of filling out contactforms!

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Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:16:40 +0000

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By: Kai

Kai — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:49:27 +0000

There is an easy and fast way to change the function of the backspace button:

1 – In the address bar type: about:config.
2 – Scroll down to the entry called browser.backspace_action.
3 – Double-click on this row and it will pop up a dialog box asking you to enter a value. The current value will be 0, change it to be 2 then click OK.

Taken from http://www.tipstrs.com/tip/543/Disable-backspace-key-on-Firefox

Ciay Kai

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Are You Happy With Your Internet Provider? « Lorelle on WordPress — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:24:54 +0000

[...] While this might seem like a minor issue, when it happens in the middle of saving or publishing a post, you can loose everything you were just working on. If you are blogging with WordPress.com blogs, however, you may be saved because WordPress.com blogs have an automatic draft saving feature which saves your drafts every few minutes. [...]

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Blogging on the Edge: Blogging NOT From My Computer « Lorelle on WordPress — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:49:08 +0000

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:58:57 +0000

There are basics for beginners in abundance, especially on this blog. Search for "wordpress for beginners" and you will find a ton of information on the net. One Year Anniversary Review: WordPress For Beginners and Wordpress.com Resources for Beginners (and video, too) list tons of resources. For an excellent "glossary" explaining in simple terms what everything is, I recommend WordPress Semantics and Introduction to Blogging followed by New To WordPress - Where to Start. As for getting your blog "marketed", honestly, do nothing. Those "pings" you don't know about work very well to "market" your blog. So focus on writing and building content. The rest will happen in a few months or a year without any effort from you. No matter how much work you put into the marketing aspect of your blog, you will not get traffic faster than you would concentrating on the writing. Traffic arrives because you have something to tell them. Without anything to tell them, no one will come, or if they do, they won't come back.

By: Connie Tom

Connie Tom — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 06:12:34 +0000

Is there a basic, I mean really basic tutorial for blog beginners? And dictionary for what basic terms in blogging mean. I have just started blogging. What does the term ping mean? How do you get your blog marketed? How do you get other people to link to your blog? So many things new to learn…. Can someone help? Thank you! Connie

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Nimish Batra, The Life and Times of » post lost — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:27:17 +0000

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:00:02 +0000

Ah, Rose, that is another common mistake people do. Makes me scream. If you write your post in Word, and you include any apostrophes or quote marks, they turn into funky characters when you post via the web. Best thing to use is a text editor with spell check.

I’ve screamed PLENTY when using a word processor without first going through and cleaning up all the quote marks. I finally dug into WordPerfect and stopped it from making pretty characters out of all my quote marks, but not everyone knows or wants to dig into permanently changing those features. When you’re writing for the web, you have to do that.

Last night, a friend stopped in to see what I was doing. I was in the middle of an article that I hadn’t saved yet, and screamed murder and violence when he picked up my wireless mouse like he’d never see one before and waved it around in the air. Unfamiliar with thumb buttons, he triggered the back button several times which moved the page back four pages from what I was working on. Since I hadn’t had time to even hit SAVE AND CONTINUE EDITING, I lost 30 minutes of work. DAMN!

The screams never end for web bloggers.