January 26, 2007 – 9:35 am
I’m just beginning to dig into some of the template tag and function changes in WordPress 2.1, as are many volunteers covering the WordPress Support Forums and WordPress Codex. Here is a DRAFT list of some of the template tag and function changes I’ve found in WordPress 2.1. If you know of any others or […]
February 26, 2006 – 10:44 am
My new found friend, Abhijit Nadgouda @ iface, has a new article on WordPress Pluggable Functions and Plugins that takes a great inside look at WordPress Plugins and their functions. What is so cool about this is that, without hacking, i.e., without changing any existing code in WordPress, I can change its behavior through plugins. […]
How long are your paragraphs? Have you measured them lately? One of the telling differences between traditional writing and writing for the web is the length of the paragraph. Look at the example below. Which is easier to read? On the left, the paragraphs are huge, long blocks of text. On the right, the paragraphs […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog writing, Blogging Tips, edit, how to blog, paragraph length, paragraphs, web writing, writing for the web, writing tips |
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
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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 |
April 16, 2013 – 10:36 am
I will be teaching the WordPress I Introduction course at Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education starting Saturdays, April 27 – July 13, 2013, 9am – noon, in Vancouver, Washington, just across the river from the Airport at the Columbia Tech Center. What a great way to get to learn about how WordPress works without […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Announcements, WordPress Events, WordPress News
| Tags: clark college, clark college continuing ed, college, continuing ed, courses, education, how to use wordpress, learn wordpress, learning, wordpress, wordpress class, wordpress classes, wordpress college, wordpress course |
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
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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 |
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
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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 |
I will be teaching a WordPress Introduction college course at Portland Community College in Beaverton, just west of Portland, Oregon, starting April 3 – June 12, 2013. The course is a hybrid online course meetings Wednesdays from 6-9PM with a minimum of two hours online per week. Called “CMS Website Creation: WordPress,” this 3 credit […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Announcements, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blogging, blogging lessons, Blogging Tips, classes, college, education, learn wordpress, pcc, portland community college, training, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress classes, wordpress development, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress training |
February 28, 2013 – 5:31 pm
We’ve completed the second month of Blog Exercises in February. Are you still with me? Here is the list. Blog Exercises: Taking a Risk With What You Blog About Blog Exercises: Honor the Past with Anniversaries and Birthdays Blog Exercises: Your Byline Blog Exercises: Comments and The Blog Bullies Blog Exercises: Backlinks Blog Exercises: Category […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blog maintenance, blogging, Blogging Tips, how to blog, maintenance, organization, planning, schedule, site maintenance, web writing, wordpress, writing tips |
February 28, 2013 – 4:57 am
Without the feed reader, my blogging life would be seriously hard work. Feed, commonly misidentified as RSS, is the proper name for the contextual version of your site as distributed through various feed types such as RSS, Atom, XML, etc. They are basically your posts stripped of your website design, read like articles in a […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, citation, cite, content, content inventory, credit, feed reader, feeds, resources, rss, sources, speed blogging, Writing, writing for the web |
February 25, 2013 – 4:04 am
I blog about the technical side of blogging, about WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, HTML, CSS, web design – code. I often blog about code. And people ask me code questions. I’ve become an expert in writing code so it looks like code on web pages. The time may come, or you may have already […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, code, code in comments, code in content, how to write code, publishing code, publishing code in comments, publishing code in posts, web writing, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips |
January 23, 2013 – 10:02 pm
The following are classes and workshops offered by Lorelle VanFossen. Writing for the Web June 3 – July 8, 2013 Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am – noon in the West Coast Bank Building in downtown Vancouver, Washington, just across the river from Portland, Oregon. USD $179 This writing class […]
January 23, 2013 – 6:45 pm
February 18 – March 25, you will find me teaching “Writing for the Web” for Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education on Mondays from 1:30-4:30PM in the West Coast Bank Building in downtown Vancouver, Washington, just across the river from Portland, Oregon. Come join me! This is the first class of its kind at the […]
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Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Blogging News, Blogging Tips, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: announcements, blog news, blogging news, clark college, classes, education, events, learn wordpress, news, web publishing, web publishing help, web writing, WordPress News, workshops, writing for the web |
December 18, 2012 – 11:05 pm
I’m expanding my WordPress college courses to now include Portland Community College at Rock Creek. Give yourself a holiday gift to learn WordPress next year! Beginning January 9, 2013 and running through March 20, I will be teaching CMS Website Creation: WordPress. This is a part of their new series on Content Management System instruction. […]
December 18, 2012 – 10:44 pm
“I feel greedy.” We stood in the cold outside the Clackamas Mall, arms wrapped around each other, watching the crowd expand to release individuals and couples to step forward and place their candles on the memorial stage. The faces of the two deceased smiled over the mournful group gathered before them. The photographs were snapshots […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging
| Tags: blog writing, clackamas, clackamas mall, event, grief, grieving, guns, heal, healing, memorial, newtown, reporting, sharing, shooting, violence, Writing |
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Fight Against Trackback Death
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 […]