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WordPress School: HTML Tags

April 12, 2015 – 10:18 am

The last lesson was the HTML and CSS Tutorial, another mini-series on Lorelle’s WordPress School. This is a very basic tutorial on HTML and CSS to prepare you for WordPress site customization and WordPress Themes. This tutorial in the series will help you understand the basics of an HTML tag, the architectural code wrapped around […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School | Tags: css, html, html tags, learn wordpress, text editor, web browser, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials | Comments (3)

Blog Exercises: How to Tag Posts – The Quiz

July 12, 2013 – 4:13 am

In “Blog Exercises: How to Tag Posts,” I covered the basics of how to tag your posts. The following blog exercise is a quiz to see how you would tag the following post. Read through the article on tagging posts for a review. Read the following fictional short story I wrote called “The Story of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, categories, categories and tags, content, how to blog, how to tag, how to tag posts, keywords, navigation, search terms, tag cloud, tagging, tags, wordpress, wordpress tags, WordPress Tips, Writing, writing tags, writing tips | Comments (14)

Blog Exercises: Self-Sabotage Writing

July 1, 2013 – 4:15 am

You probably don’t want to hear this…I’m sure you don’t care what I have to say anyway…if you aren’t interested, go somewhere else…if you are here to learn something stick around, if not, take a hike…I don’t expect you to figure this out…This does require some intelligence to understand, so if you can’t be bothered, […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Writing | Tags: attitude, blog exercises, courage, faith, how to write, how to write technical articles, negative blogging, passive voice, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-sabotage, technical writing, technical writing tips, timeless web, timeless writing, web writing, Writing, writing character, writing for the web, writing tips, writing voice | Comments (23)

Blog Exercises: Spell Checkup on Categories and Tags

June 15, 2013 – 4:16 am

Oh no! I was writing out a tag in WordPress and the auto-suggest feature popped up with a misspelled tag name! Yikes! Today’s blog exercise is to clean up your tag and category names to ensure you’ve not made the same mistakes. To review your category names in WordPress, go to Posts > Categories and […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blogging tips, categories, content, first impression, grammar, how to use wordpress, maintenance, site cleanup, site maintenance, spell check, spelling, spring cleaning, tags, wordpress, wordpress categories, wordpress help, wordpress tags, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, Writing, writing tips | Comments (6)

Blog Exercises: How to Tag Posts

March 19, 2013 – 4:16 am

Categories are your site’s table of contents. Tags are your index words. While it is simple to explain the two basic organizational and navigation elements of a WordPress site, coming up with tags for each post is a struggle many bloggers battle. Tags represent micro-categorization of your site’s content. It helps the visitor find closely […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blogging tips, categorizaton, content, content organization, content tags, how to tag posts, navigation, organization, post tags, posts, structure, tags, tags and categories, web writing, wordpress, WordPress Tips, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (9)

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. […]

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Blog Exercises: What’s Your Site’s Tagline?

January 9, 2013 – 6:09 am

In Blog Exercises: What is the Name of Your Site?, the Blog Exercise explored whether or not your site title was still appropriate for your site. Today’s exercise examines your tagline, the subtitle of your site. Not all site designs or WordPress Themes display the tagline, but it is there under the hood. Search engines […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blog focus, blog purpose, blog tagline, content, focus, identity, purpose, site tagline, subject matter, subtitle, tagline | Comments (10)

Cleaning Up Post Tags with WordPress Bulk Edit

April 22, 2011 – 4:37 am

I recently went through a major upgrade for Taking Your Camera on the Road, one of the oldest websites in the world, on WordPress since 2003, and the testing grounds for some of the earliest WordPress Plugins and Themes. Have I got a lot of lessons learned to share with you. To begin with, I […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips | Tags: how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials | Comments (35)

Protecting Cultural Heritage With Blogs

December 10, 2007 – 4:34 am

The World Intellectual Property Organization presents the Creative Heritage Project: IP Guidelines for Documenting, Recording and Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage, a project to help cultures around the world preserve and protect their history and traditions in a digital world.

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WordPress 2.3 Tag News

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 […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Tags: how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials | Comments (49)

Are Tags Working For You?

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 […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com | Comments (40)

Tags Arrive on WordPress.com Blogs

September 21, 2007 – 2:52 pm

With the announcement of the built-in tag feature in the upcoming release of WordPress 2.3, I’ve been waiting for WordPress.com to get tags as we are the beta testers of the WordPress World. Well, today they arrived. At the bottom of your Write Post panel’s editing box, you will see a new form for Tags. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom | Tags: categories, how to use wordpress, post categories, post tags, tagging, tags, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress tags, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com | Comments (59)

WordPress.com Blogs Feeds Scraped

August 9, 2007 – 3:47 pm

In the most recent WordPress Wednesday News on the Blog Herald, I reported on the mass copyright violations and scrapings of WordPress.com blogs, as reported by Letters Home to You in “Has Anyone Stolen Your Writing Lately?” and “Please Help Me Get Google to Pull Their Ads from a Blogging Thief”. There is also a […]

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Are You Abusing and Misusing Tags?

May 17, 2007 – 5:16 am

Affilitate Tips Site is one of the many abusers and misusers of tags I’ve found. Among the “tags” listed at the very top of the article are: Tag(s);2007, adsense, american idol, bebo, blog, blogger, blogging, blogging kit, blogging kits, britney spears, bush, current events, digg, foto, galilea montijo, hd dvd, ieia, igoogle, in the news, […]

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Feeds Change How You Write Links

May 15, 2007 – 4:00 am

Feed are changing how we write links in our blog posts. Have you noticed? There are two types of links. Absolute links are the most commonly found links in web pages today. They go directly to the source such as: https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/monetizing-wordpress-plugins/ A relative link is one that links relative to the page without the full […]