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Blog Exercises: Editorial Calendar Check-in

April 16, 2013 – 4:07 am

If you have been with me since January on these blog exercises, it is time to check in with your editorial calendar again. If you are new, welcome, and take time to read the previous posts on the editorial calendar to help you catch up. Blog Exercises: The Editorial Calendar Blog Exercises: Blogging with the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: Writing, Blogging Tips, writing tips, editorial calendar, web writing, blogging, blog exercises, writing for the web, schedule, blog planning, things to do, project list, task list, blog schedule | Comments (4)

Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag

March 14, 2013 – 4:40 am

Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog title, Blogging Tips, code, html, html title, html title tag, post title, seo, site title, tags, title tag, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (10)

Blog Exercises: Trackback Check-Up

March 5, 2013 – 4:15 am

It’s time to check your trackbacks. In Blog Exercises: Trackbacks and Blog Exercises: Backlinks you learned about trackbacks, the automatic process of a site linking to yours and generating a comment-like notification to alert you of the link to your article, and helping your readers discover what others are saying about your article. In this […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips | Tags: audience, back links, backlinks, blog exercises, blog focus, comments, content, content with intent, demographics, feedback, interactiity, linkbacks, most popular posts, popular posts, readers, social, social media, trackbacks, what do you blog about | Comments (1)

Blog Exercises: Check Your Dates

January 15, 2013 – 4:42 am

It’s 2013. Time to update your calendars and your blog dates. Sara Tetreault of Go Gingham asked me to cover updating copyright dates on your blog, so this Blog Exercise is dedicated to that and all the dates that need changing on your site now that we are into a new year. Most WordPress Themes […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blogging, Blogging Tips, calendar, categories, category dates, copyright, copyright dates, dates, planning, publishing, schedule, web publishing, web writing, wordpress date format, wordpress dates, WordPress Themes, writing tips | Comments (8)

Check Out the New Media Manager in WordPress

December 2, 2012 – 3:36 pm

WordPress.com users were greeted with a new Media Manager over the weekend. This is the new media uploader coming in WordPress 3.5 when it releases December 5, 2012. For most of us, this is a long-awaited, dream come true. The clunky WordPress Image Uploader is gone, replaced with one more visual and easy-to-use. The announcement […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Tips | Tags: audio, image management, images, mangaing images, media, media manger, media uploader, multimedia, playlist editor, video, wordpress images, wordpress media, wordpress media manager, WordPress News, wordpress playlist, wordpress upgrade, wordpress uypdate | Comments (25)

WordPress Plugins News: Coffee2Code Plugin Marathon, Plugin Podcast, Plugin Developer Center, Plugin Checklist

April 5, 2009 – 10:13 am

As most of you know, I’m extremely passionate about supporting and encouraging WordPress Plugin authors. I’ve written a love letter to WordPress Plugin authors, spent a month writing over 36 posts on nothing but WordPress Plugins, published extensive tips on how to install, configure, and use WordPress Plugins and another guide for finding Plugins, “Where […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Plugins | Tags: plugins, WordPress News, wordpress plugin news, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips | Comments (12)

Checking WordPress for Comment Spam That Slips By You

September 14, 2007 – 4:02 am

A six month old post got a comment yesterday. Responding to the comment, I noticed a comment spam above it with obscene language in it. Specifically, a request for fetish sex. I was so embarrassed that this person had left a comment and saw that as the last comment. I’m so fussy about monitoring for […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips | Comments (17)

Check Your WordPress.com Comments for Comment Spam

May 21, 2006 – 7:26 pm

I wrote a few days ago about the massive comment spam attack on WordPress blogs, especially WordPress.com blogs, and how for the most part, Akismet was catching all the evil comment spam. Well, the battle is still being won, but comment spam is slipping through. A huge round of hotels, steroids, and other comment spam, […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, WordPressDotCom | Comments (30)

WordPress.com Bloggers Now Have Spell Check

March 26, 2006 – 7:21 am

The WordPress.com blog announces Spellchecker for WordPress.com blogs. You can now spell check your posts in WordPress.com. Unfortunately, for those of us who know better and stay totally away from the often unfriendly WYSIWYG Rich Editor, we’re out of luck. I am not happy with the developers of WordPress.com for ignoring a good portion of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News | Comments (3)

What Do You Blog About? Check Your Tags

January 17, 2006 – 7:55 am

Once you get past the issue of explaining what a blogger is and does, then comes the question, “What do you blog about?” Do you know? Do you really know what you blog about? You might think you know but do you really know? There’s a way to check. If you are using a tag […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, Web Wise, Writing | Comments (6)

I FOUND YOU – ONLINE SPELL CHECKER!

January 5, 2006 – 10:42 am

Firefox Spell Check Firefox now features spell check by default in their Internet browser. Misspelled words are highlighted with a red wavy underline, similar to word processing programs. Right click on the highlighted word and choose from the correct spelling in the right click menu. It’s not perfect, and the misspelled word isn’t recognized until […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Browsers, Web Wise, WordPress Tips, Writing | Comments (30)

Blog Maintenance – Check For 404 Page Not Found Errors

December 5, 2005 – 6:24 pm

Trying to practice what I preach, I finally got some time to check my site statistics this month for my main site and noticed that my 404 Page Not Found Errors stats were really high. In fact, I had over 400 visits to dead links on my site. These are internal links, not external. These […]

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The Hunt for Online Spell Checking

October 19, 2005 – 9:46 am

NOTE: The latest version of Firefox now comes with built-in spell check. Faced with a repaired but not fully stocked laptop, I needed some of my writing spell checked. Instead of panicking, or digging through storage boxes of my computer disks for my word processing program, I realized that I was connected to the Internet […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Browsers, Web Wise, WordPress Tips, Writing | Comments (6)

Step-By-Step Website Development – Check List

October 17, 2005 – 6:36 pm

I’ve talked a lot about website development, and hopefully I’ve stressed how important it is to make a plan. To help you make your plan, here is a simplified checklist for the development and design of a website ($ indicates potential additional fees that may be incurred). Development Gathering of information related to site content […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Design, WordPress Tips | Tags: blog checklist, web design checklist, web development, webdev, website checklist | Comments (30)

Site Optimization: Checking Loose Links

September 30, 2005 – 11:19 am

The three biggest complains by Internet users are speed issues, broken links, and slow ads. Let’s tackle the number two complaint: broken links. Few things are more frustrating than tracking down the information you want, and you click the link and get the famous “404 Page Error – Page Not Found”. The term “web” came […]

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