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Scott Reilly: Two Weeks of WordPress Plugin Releases and Updates

April 5, 2008 – 5:44 pm

In March of 2005, Scott Reilly of Coffee2Code shook up the WordPress Community with 7 Days of Plugins. During that week, Scott created and released: Easy Post-to-Post Links WordPress Plugin: A shortcut code for referencing onsite blog posts by id or post slug name. Obfuscate E-mail WordPress Plugin: Automatically disguise emails within blog posts and […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Plugins | Comments (17)

Do You Update Posts or Post Updates?

March 1, 2006 – 7:10 am

Do you update your posts when information changes or is new, or do you just post an update? I think this is a question that needs to be thoroughly considered and explored. I, for one, am sick and tired of visiting a link for a WordPress Plugin, WordPress Theme, software program, or whatever only to […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Babble, Web Wise, Writing | Comments (22)

Blog Exercises: Own Your Site and Protect Yourself

May 1, 2013 – 4:10 am

I hear it every day. A webmaster, developer, or designer does the site owner wrong and the site owner is victimized, helpless, and frustrated with what to do next. I’ve gotten calls in the middle of the night from people around the world trying to get help recovering their WordPress password because their “web guy” […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Tags: blog exercises, hiring, jobs, site developers, site development, web developers, web development, webmasters, wordpress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, writers agreement | Comments (8)

The Brute-Force Password Attack on WordPress Sites

April 22, 2013 – 9:47 pm

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 | Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: admin, bad behavior, brute force, brute force attack, evil, login, passwords, protect your site, registration, security, servers, site security, spam, web hosting services, web hosts, wordpress brute force attack, WordPress News, wordpress passwords, wordpress security | Comments (16)

Blog Exercises: Site Policies and Bloggers Code of Ethics

April 18, 2013 – 4:36 am

It’s time to start working on all of your site policies, one by one. So far, we’ve touched on some of these in Blog Exercises: The Don’ts of Blogging, Blog Exercise: Taking a Risk With What You Blog About, Blog Exercises: Comments and The Blog Bullies, and Blog Exercises: Quoting and Blockquotes. The basic policies […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blogger guidelines, blogger safety, bloggers code, bloggers code of ethics, bloggers ethics, bloggers rights, blogging ethics, blogging guidelines, Blogging Tips, code of ethics, comment policies, comments, copyright, copyright policies, disclosure, disclosure policies, ethical issues, ethics, freedom of speech, guidelines, legal, legal issues, legal policies, legal rights, liability, liability policies, opinion, personal, personal information, policies, privacy, privacy policies, protection, safety, security, self-protection, web publishing, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (4)

Blog Exercises: Blasts from the Past

March 18, 2013 – 4:33 am

It’s time to dive into your archives and feature some blasts from the past on your blog. We all know we have some great gems in our archives, article series, great topics, informative and educational content. Many of these are timeless, yet they tend to get lost in the shuffle of time and search. We’ve […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: article series, blast from the past, blog exercises, Blogging Tips, content, intrasite links, links, old posts, past posts, revive past posts, seo, social media, web writing, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (3)

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)

Writing for the Web Course Starts June 3, 1013

March 7, 2013 – 4:02 am

I will be teaching “Writing for the Web” at Clark College Corporate and Continuing Education in Vancouver, Washington, Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 3 – July 8, 2013. The class will be at the West Coast Bank Building in downtown Vancouver, Washington, just a few minutes from downtown Portland, Oregon. Writing on the web is now […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress News, Writing | Tags: Blogging Tips, clark college, classes, community building, courses, demographics, education, facebook, how to blog, how to write on the web, learn how to blog, social media, social web, training, twitter, web writing, wordpress, workshops, writing class, writing course, writing for the web, writing tips | Leave a Comment

Blog Exercises: Feed Readers

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 | 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 | Comments (5)

Exploring the Alignment of the Planets in the Night Sky

December 5, 2012 – 8:07 pm

In anticipation of the planets alignment, I went digging for some cool Android apps to see the stars, and some awesome astronomy blogs to keep myself updated. Let’s start with the awesome astronomy bloggers. Blogging the Stars When I think about those blogging the stars, I don’t think Perez Hilton. I think about those truly […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging, Blogging News | Tags: alignment, android, astronomers, astronomy, astronomy apps, bloggers, december 21 2012, mobile apps, planets, planets aligning, science, space, space apps, space bloggers, space blogs, star apps, star chart apps, star charts | Comments (6)

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)

Update WordPress Now: WordPress 3.4.2 Released

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 | Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Tips | Tags: maintenance, security, update, upgrade, wordpress, wordpress release, wordpress security, wordpress update, wordpress upgrade, wordpress version | Comments (40)

Firefox 15 Out and Dazzles

September 3, 2012 – 3:56 pm

Firefox 15 is out. According to InformationWeek, the latest version of the Firefox web browser is better than ever. Here is a summary of the new features: Behind-the-Scenes Updates: No longer will you have to fuss over upgrades. It will happen in the background and “seamlessly implement the changes when the browser is next launched.” […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Browsers, Web Design, Web Wise | Tags: browser, firefox, firefox 15, web browser, web developer tools, web development, web development tools | Comments (11)

What You Most Need to Know About WordPress

August 24, 2012 – 6:48 pm

At the recent WordCamp Portland 2012, I was asked by several attendees to cover the basics of WordPress and we came up with What You Most Need to Know About WordPress. Here are the “notes” from that unconference presentation. The Difference Between Categories and Tags I hear this question at WordCamps, from readers, students, and […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, WordCamps, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog writing, Blogging Tips, headings, how to blog, how to blog with WordPress, images, links, multimedia, post content, seo, what you most need to know in wordpress, wordpress, wordpress and seo, wordpress essentials, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing, writing tips | Comments (16)

WordPress 3.4 Green is Good to Go

June 15, 2012 – 2:26 pm

WordPress 3.4 is out, named “Green” in honor of jazz guitarist and composer Grant Green. Green is a great nickname for this hot release of WordPress, bringing with it some excellent new features and improvements. As with all WordPress upgrades, it is recommended you backup your full WordPress site, database and all files, before upgrading. […]