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Dreams Can Come True: Meeting Alan Dean Foster

November 19, 2009 – 9:27 am

I’m in Arizona after a very exciting and busy series of conferences, including the very successful WordCamp Netherlands, WordCamp Phoenix, and PodCamp Arizona, visiting family living near one of my favorite authors in the world, Alan Dean Foster. During WordCamp Phoenix and PodCampAZ, I shared with my audience that I was too excited to just […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Babble, WordCamps, WordPress News | Tags: alan dean foster, arizona, author, dream come true, dreams, writer | Comments (14)

Blog Exercises: Dissecting Post Categories

May 13, 2013 – 4:17 am

In a recent article, Noah Weiss shared his struggle to figure out categories and tags on his personal site. I know many of you following these Blog Exercises have also struggled to figure out your categories, so I thought Noah’s site would be a perfect example, He has gratefully given me permission to rip his […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips | Tags: blog categories, categories, categories and tags, categorization, content, content management, content organization, navigation, post categories, site organization, structure, tags, web writing, what do you blog about, wordpress, Writing | Comments (3)

Fight Against Trackback Death

March 27, 2013 – 12:25 pm

I’ve heard the many threats of trackbacks and pingbacks dying over the years, going the way of the virtual dinosaur, but I’m terrified to hear from Andraz Tori that Typepad is killing pingback functionality and stating that WordPress might be considering it, removing the joy of getting a notification that someone online is talking about […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, WordPress News | Tags: backlinks, comments, death of trackbacks, interaction, pingbacks, protect trackbacks, spam, spam comments, stop trackbacks, trackback spam, trackbacks, typepad, wordpress, WordPress Tips | Comments (21)

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)

WordPress Anniversary: WordPress and Evil

March 11, 2013 – 1:29 pm

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 | Posted in 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, hackers, history of wordpress, jonathan bailey, malware, plagiarism today, plugins, prevent comment spam, scrapers, spam, splogs, wordpress, wordpress anniversary, wordpress history, WordPress News, WordPress Themes | Comments (6)

Blog Exercises: Schedule Blogging Time

February 27, 2013 – 4:18 am

When do you blog best? I do my best blogging between 8AM and 1PM, then in the evening between 8PM and 11:30PM. When is your best time for creative thought, writing, and blogging? I blog professionally in addition to teaching, training, and public speaking on blogging, WordPress, and social media, so blogging is my life. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Writing | Tags: appointment, blog exercises, blogging time, Blogging Tips, calendar, creative time, editorial calendar, planning, research time, schedule, time, Writing, writing time | Comments (6)

Blog Exercises: Trackbacks

February 19, 2013 – 4:40 am

Trackbacks are like an invitation to a party. It is also like legitimate gossip. Trackbacks are notes telling you that someone is talking about you. Trackbacks are part of the important connections that form the true sense of the “web” on the Internet. WordPress and most modern publishing platforms generate trackbacks automatically. As common as […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Writing, Blogging Tips, Blogging, Blog Exercises | Tags: blockquote, blog exercises, citations, incoming links, linkbacks, linking, links, pingbacks, quote, referrer links, refferal links, refferals, refferers, resource, search engines, social media, source, trackbacks | Comments (29)

Happy Anniversary WordPress: The Beginnings

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 | Posted in Blog Babble, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom | Tags: about wordpress, anniversary, birthday, camera on the road, cameraontheroad, community, css, happy birthday wordpress, history, israel, Lorelle-on-WordPress, site history, stories, wordcamp, wordpress, wordpress anniversary, wordpress community, wordpress development, wordpress event, wordpress history, wordpress irc, WordPress News | Comments (16)

Blog Exercises: New Year’s Resolution

January 10, 2013 – 4:32 am

Every year, Matt Mullenweg publishes his New Year’s resolutions. They’ve actually become quite famous as the founder of WordPress often announces goals associated with the free publishing platform, giving fans and developers a highlight of what’s coming. We’re waiting on his resolutions for 2013 as he usually publishes them on January 11, his birthday, but […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises | Tags: achievements, blog challenges, blog exercise, blog exercises, blog focus, blog goals, blog mission, discipline, exercises, goals, mission, motivation, plans, resolutions, web writing, Writing | Comments (2)

Happy Holidays and Onward!

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 | Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging, WordPress News | Tags: activities, announcements, annual, events, happy holidays, Lorelle-on-WordPress, new year, news, plans | Leave a Comment

Welcome to the New Blog Exercises

January 3, 2013 – 5:37 pm

Your doctor tells you to exercise. You tell yourself you need some exercise. You play Sudoku and other mind games to flex the brain. We all need exercise, even bloggers. In the past, my Blog Challenges have been well received but its time to update them. I used to call them challenges, then prompts, but […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises | Tags: assignments, blog challenges, blog exercise, blog exercises, blog lessons, blog publishing, blog writing, blogging, blogging advice, blogging challenges, blogging help, blogging lessons, Blogging Tips, exercises, how to blog, learning how to blog, tasks, web publishing, writing for the web | Comments (19)

Peace on Earth: Help Me Fight Terrorism in My Community

December 12, 2012 – 11:32 am

Update: This story is starting to go viral. Thank you to everyone for your support for the Portland and Clackamas, Oregon, Community in their time of need. I hope we fill the Clackamas Mall, and every mall, with as many people as possible to let all terrorists, domestic and international, know that we will not […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, Blog Babble | Tags: clackamas, clackamas mall, clackamas town center, event, freedom, hope, invitation, mall shooting, oregon, pdx, portland, shooting, terrorism | Comments (13)

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)

201 WordPress Books

April 26, 2012 – 12:01 pm

As part of my project to bring WordPress into colleges nationally, I did a quick survey of how many books have been published about WordPress. I was asked by several major publishers to publish the first book in English on WordPress but had to decline due to my traveling schedule and work load, so it’s […]