January 22, 2007 – 5:08 am
I love WordPress Plugins. And I love WordPress Plugin authors even more. Their jobs aren’t easy. They pull their hair out (and turn some parts gray) building their WordPress Plugins, then are assaulted by bug reports and users begging them to fix their Plugins because “we love them and we need them and can’t run […]
February 22, 2016 – 4:07 am
I’ve just finished five years of teaching non-stop college and community education workshops and programs on WordPress for beginners, novices, experts, web designers, web developers, web programmers, and those who think they know everything but still realize they have a lot to learn. I love that last group as they are willing to learn and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blogging, blogging tips, wordpress advice, wordpress content, wordpress customization, wordpress help, wordpress installation, wordpress organization, wordpress setup, wordpress structure, WordPress Tips |
This week on Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we’ve been covering the web browser, your gateway to the web and WordPress. So far in this Web Browser Guide series we’ve covered some web browser history, keyboard and mouse shortcuts, browser tabs, and search operators and shortcuts to help you find WordPress help as well […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
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January 31, 2015 – 12:00 am
Attention all on the west side of Portland and around the Portland Metro area. Beginning February 18 through April 8, 2015, I’m honored to be teaching an 8-week community WordPress and blogging class in Forest Grove, Oregon, on Wednesdays from 6:30-9PM at the Forest Grove Senior Center. I rarely present community-based WordPress courses in the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Classes, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: classes, forest grove, learn to blog, learn wordpress, oregon, wordpress classes, wordpress community class, WordPress News, workshops |
January 16, 2015 – 1:18 pm
Are you ready to join Lorelle’s WordPress School? Let’s get going. Here is what you need to know. To participate, you need the following: A free WordPress.com site or other test site for experimentation Join and participate in the WordPress School Google+ Community Do the assignments and tasks associated with each lesson Comment on the […]
September 25, 2014 – 2:57 pm
We received a new credit card in the mail today to replace our old one AGAIN. An “unsuccessful attempt” to access our secure security data happened and this is a precaution the bank is taking to protect us. I have no other information so I’m left wondering. Yesterday I received an email supposedly from Home […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: credit card security, data security, hacked, hacking, identity theft, malware, personal security, privacy, risk, security, security vulnerability, vulnerabilities, wordpress, WordPress News, wordpress security, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips |
My WordPress I course at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, just across the river from Portland, Oregon, is open for registration for Summer Quarter 2014. The course begins July 7, 2014, on Mondays and Wednesdays at 6:30-9:30PM. This is a five credit hour course, 50 hours of all WordPress basics in 8 weeks. The size […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Classes, WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News
| Tags: clark college, classes, education, how to use wordpress, learn wordpress, wordpress, wordpress basics, wordpress class, wordpress classes, WordPress News |
August 19, 2013 – 8:40 pm
Registration is now open for the two WordPress college courses I teach at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, and Portland Community College at Rock Creek in Beaverton, just west of Portland, Oregon. See Classes and Workshops for details. I’ve been working with Robert Hughes of the Computer Technology Department at Clark College for almost two […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Announcements, WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News
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My mother emailed me and asked if WordPress was under attack. With all the news of last week’s attack of the Boston Marathon, the attacks on WordPress and other PHP-based web publishing sites was low on the priority list for myself and others, but this is something to take seriously. As we get back to […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom
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As I look back on the ten years of WordPress, there is a dark side to blogging. While many blamed WordPress for the evil, like guns, WordPress doesn’t cause evil, people cause evil. In fact, WordPress, Automattic, and the WordPress Community has fought longer and harder against the evil doers in the world than most […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom
| Tags: akismet, anniversary, autoblog, autobloggers, bitacle, comment spam, content theft, copyright, copyright violation, copyright violations, evil, hacked, hackers, hacking, history of wordpress, how to use wordpress, jonathan bailey, malware, plagiarism today, plugins, prevent comment spam, scrapers, security, security vulnerability, spam, splogs, vulnerability, wordpress, wordpress anniversary, wordpress help, wordpress history, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com |
January 23, 2013 – 8:55 pm
On August 16, 2005, Lorelle on WordPress became blog ID number 72 on the brand new WordPress.com. The first post was appropriately titled “Lorelle on WordPress” to introduce the site. Looking back, it’s amazing how true to form that I’ve kept the mission of this site all these years later as proposed in the first […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging, WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom
| Tags: about wordpress, anniversary, birthday, camera on the road, cameraontheroad, community, css, happy birthday wordpress, history, how to use wordpress, israel, Lorelle-on-WordPress, site history, stories, wordcamp, wordpress, wordpress anniversary, wordpress community, wordpress development, wordpress event, wordpress help, wordpress history, wordpress irc, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com |
January 8, 2013 – 9:16 pm
We survived the Mayan Calendar. We’ve survived planets lining up. We’ve survived attacks on our person, our community, our faith, and our country. Just another year. As we charge forward this coming year, here are some things to look forward to here on Lorelle on WordPress and on my other sites, and many things to […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: activities, announcements, annual, events, hacked, hacking, happy holidays, Lorelle-on-WordPress, new year, news, plans, security, security vulnerability, vulnerability, wordpress, WordPress News |
September 27, 2012 – 2:17 pm
In “How Many WordPress Plugins Should You Install on Your Site?” WPBeginner asks a question I bring up in my workshops, training programs, and college courses: How many WordPress Plugins are too many. The article brings up some valid points worth considering when choosing WordPress Plugins. Are WordPress Plugins a security risk? How would you […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: choosing a plugin, how to use wordpress, installing a plugin, plugin performance, plugin security, plugins, site performance, themes, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
September 17, 2012 – 12:42 pm
For the past few months, rumors were flying that WordPress was going to remove the Links/Blogroll feature of WordPress. As of August 2012, it is now gone from many WordPress.com. MacManx, Happiness Engineer at WordPress.com, recently stated: The Links section was removed from the core WordPress.org software, which means that it will probably be removed […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blogroll, blogroll pages, custom menus, edit blogroll, export blogroll, export links, google, how to use wordpress, import blogroll, import links, link categories, link lists, link manager, link recommendations, link resources, links, links pages, lists, managing links, menus, pagerank, pages, recommendations, resources, seo, sidebar widgets, widgets, wordpress, wordpress 3.5, wordpress help, wordpress links, WordPress News, wordpress pages, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
September 6, 2012 – 2:23 pm
WordPress 3.4.2 Maintenance and Security Release arrived today, and it’s time to update. This is both a maintenance and security release, therefore it is mandatory, not optional. Recently, I wrote about keeping WordPress updated for security reasons, and I’m singing the same song again. Don’t wait. Don’t hesitate. Use the automatic, one-click update feature. In […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: hacked, hacking, maintenance, security, security vulnerability, update, upgrade, vulnerability, wordpress, WordPress News, wordpress release, wordpress security, wordpress update, wordpress upgrade, wordpress version |
WordPress Anniversary: WordPress and Evil
As I look back on the ten years of WordPress, there is a dark side to blogging. While many blamed WordPress for the evil, like guns, WordPress doesn’t cause evil, people cause evil. In fact, WordPress, Automattic, and the WordPress Community has fought longer and harder against the evil doers in the world than most […]