January 2, 2008 – 5:57 am
Do you want to write a WordPress tip? I encourage you to do so, either on your blog, on the WordPress Support Forums, or for the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. It takes a lot of volunteer work to create a body of work for WordPress users to rely upon to help [...]
December 31, 2007 – 4:27 am
Avatars, or the well known Gravatars, are tiny images, often called your online identity, picture, badge, logo, or graphic image which represent you and/or your blog. Some use photographs of their face or body, or a body part like an eye, nose, or hand. Others use pictures of animals, flowers, scenics, or graphic images. Many [...]
December 24, 2007 – 5:34 am
In Why Giving Away Your Code is Not Dangerous, Abhijit Nadgouda of ifacethoughts looks at the issue of “sharing” and Open Source from an interesting perspective:
Imagine you run a transport service, ferrying passengers to destinations they want. A part of your job is to follow maps, find out new routes and build your knowledge about [...]
November 19, 2007 – 3:25 am
The following are my tips and recommendations to help you get the most out of WordPress, be it on WordPress.com or the full version of WordPress as presented to hundreds of WordPress fans at WordCamp Israel (English) recently.
This is a fleshed-out version of my program notes outline, with links to more tips and recommendations added. [...]
October 27, 2007 – 5:22 am
The In Series WordPress Plugin by Remstate has been updated recently. The Plugin makes writing article series and connecting them together in a series simple and easy, adding a link list of the articles in the series to each post within the series.
I’m a major fan of the popular, In Series WordPress Plugin, especially as [...]
October 26, 2007 – 5:37 am
The implementation of the new WordPress 2.3 built-in tag system has not come without some joy and pain. Here are some bits of news and tips to help you with the new WordPress tags.
What is the Difference Between Tags and Categories?
A category is a table of contents for your blog posts, segregating your posts with [...]
October 24, 2007 – 4:05 am
In Technical Tips for Publishing a Series of Articles on Your Blog, I offered tips for how to use WordPress to publish a series of articles on your blog, linking manually between the blog posts after they have been published.
One of the benefits of writing articles series as future posts is that you can link [...]
October 8, 2007 – 4:41 am
I asked this question on the Blog Herald: Are Tags Working?
After Pam of Grassroots Science (Alaska) reminded me recently about the flaws in tags, the lack of consistency and control, I’m asking you again. Are tags working for you and your blog?
With the advent of tags built into WordPress 2.3, a whole new generation of [...]
October 2, 2007 – 11:21 pm
As a writer, blogger, and talker, I’m having a terrible time expressing myself when it comes to thanking everyone who came to my two month party celebrating two years of WordPress.com and Lorelle on WordPress. Thank you just isn’t enough.
To all my beautiful and wonderful friends who stopped in to entertain and educate us during [...]
September 30, 2007 – 2:23 pm
I recently ran across a blog that was stuffed with . You know, those yellow smiling faces that grin, wink, blink and snarl at you from many blog posts?
They are called emoticons by their proper term, but also known as smilies or smileys.
Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t, but [...]
September 30, 2007 – 4:39 am
Yesterday, I covered the basic code found in the footer of the WordPress Default Theme, and gave you some ideas on how to add some impact and navigation to your WordPress footer. Now, let’s look at some examples on how to customize your WordPress Theme footer.
You will need a text editor and the footer PHP [...]
September 29, 2007 – 5:18 am
Have you looked lately at the average WordPress Theme footer? That little bit of color and text at the bottom of a WordPress Theme? Lately, it seems that the only time it gets any attention is when people are looking for design credit, embedded links and ads, and other nasties.
Sometimes I think the web designer [...]
September 28, 2007 – 5:58 pm
While working on the CSS design for this site, I wanted two things:
A site design that meet web accessibility standards as much as possible.
A header design that was interesting, original, and clickable.
The accessible part was easy. The Sandbox WordPress Theme, which allows WordPress.com users to customize their blog Theme, puts the blog title into an [...]
September 27, 2007 – 9:30 am
By Douglas Bell
Like a number of the newest subscribers to Lorelle on WordPress, I first found out about Lorelle VanFossen and her blog at WordCamp, when I made the very bad mistake of trying to schedule something at the same time as her presentation. However, when I interviewed a number of WordCamp attendees for my [...]
September 27, 2007 – 6:30 am
by engtech of Internet Duct Tape
As a reader of Lorelle On WordPress you might already know there is more than one type of WordPress blogging software, but most people who know what WordPress is have no idea there are different flavours of it.
WordPress
also called self-hosted WordPress, or WordPress.org
has one blog that you have full [...]
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