September 24, 2006 – 1:18 am
BlogHelper’s Integrating a Forum with WordPress offers great step-by-step instructions on adding a Forum to your WordPress blog. The instructions include how to integrate Simple Machines Forum (SMF), Vanilla, bbPress, phpBB, and PunBB forum software into WordPress, as well as a few WordPress Plugins to help you make the job easier. BlogHelper has even included […]
January 6, 2006 – 3:19 pm
Yes, all you WordPress.com users, you now have a place to call your own for support services and dialog. The brand new WordPress.com Forums are up and running. This is where, hopefully, you can get the answers you need to your questions and find others who are blogging on WordPress.com. Volunteers are answering questions in […]
UPDATE: WordPress.com reports that they have fixed the issue but it will take time for the images to process as there have been millions of images uploaded during the past 12 hours. They recommend waiting patiently. Some sites may update immediately, some may take 24 hours, though it is likely to be less. Just keep […]
In the last tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course covering the web browser, your gateway to the web and WordPress, we covered bookmarks and how to save a web page for later access and reading. In this tutorial, we take bookmarks a little further by exploring browser bookmarklets and user scripts, small but […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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This week on Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we’ve been covering the web browser, your gateway to the web and WordPress. So far in this Web Browser Guide series we’ve covered some web browser history, keyboard and mouse shortcuts, browser tabs, and search operators and shortcuts to help you find WordPress help as well […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
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Search is used in WordPress for many different purposes as you prepare, develop, implement, and launch your website, and as you continue to maintain and publish on the site. This tutorial will help you understand how to search within a web page with the web browser, search within a WordPress site, and provide helpful tips […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: browsers, find, google search, how to search, learn wordpress, search, search operators, searching tips, web browser, web browsers, web search, web searching tips, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 12, 2015 – 6:39 am
We’ve just started Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course and you are welcome to join at any time. It is a slow-moving, at-you-own-pace course to learn WordPress from the inside out. As you go through the course, you will need to find more help and resources on WordPress, and this is your starting list. Below […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
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February 10, 2015 – 6:09 am
In the last lesson in this WordPress School course, you were to fill in the blanks of your WordPress site profile on your test site. In this lesson, you are to create your Gravatar. Gravatar is a “Globally Recognized Avatar.” Aside from the popular movie, most are familiar with avatars, the images used to represent […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: avatar, gravatar, learn wordpress, my profile, online identity, online image, profile, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress tutorials |
February 3, 2015 – 4:16 am
Let’s be Lorelle’s WordPress School with the two core content elements of WordPress: posts and Pages. By default, WordPress displays content in posts and Pages. Each behaves differently and distinctively in WordPress, and can confuse people easily. Let’s make this simple. Pages hold timeless content. Posts hold timely content. Please be patient with the videos. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: content, content organization, learn wordpress, wordpress content, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress pages, wordpress posts, wordpress school, wordpress tutorials |
February 2, 2015 – 4:55 am
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins A website is an intangible, a virtual nothing in which we create something tangible to human perception. When it boils right down to it, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little created nothing with WordPress. WordPress isn’t a physical object you can […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: learn wordpress, site content, site information, site master plan, site organization, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress tutorials, worksheets |
January 24, 2015 – 4:15 am
I was one of the first asked to write and publish a text book on WordPress. I worked with the BIG NAME text book publishing company for months to create a structure and outline for WordPress users. As a long-time WordPress user, WordPress Codex contributor and editor, WordPress support forums volunteer, developer, designer, and WordPress […]
January 16, 2015 – 1:18 pm
Are you ready to join Lorelle’s WordPress School? Let’s get going. Here is what you need to know. To participate, you need the following: A free WordPress.com site or other test site for experimentation Join and participate in the WordPress School Google+ Community Do the assignments and tasks associated with each lesson Comment on the […]
August 10, 2014 – 4:36 pm
The following was originally published on WordCast and authored by Lorelle VanFossen. It is reprinted here as a reference guide. You’ve moved your WordPress installation from one server to another. You’ve changed domain names. You’ve moved images around on your server and now they don’t load. You’ve changed your WordPress installation and now images show […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: database, mysql, phpmyadmin, search and delete, search and replace, wordpress, wordpress code, wordpress database, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips |
September 11, 2013 – 9:59 pm
It is upgrade time again. Time to upgrade your WordPress. WordPress 3.6.1 Maintenance and Security Release was announced today. It includes fixes to WordPress 3.6 and some security issues, so this is a mandatory update. WordPress.com users are automatically updated, as are all those on managed WordPress hosting like WP Engine. This update applies to […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: mandatory update, security, security update, update wordpress, wordpress, WordPress News, wordpress releases, wordpress security, wordpress updates, wordpress versions |
It’s hard to believe that I’ve learned much from comment spammers over the years. I’ve learned that they are among the most hated folks in the world, yet you have to respect them as well. As I look back on ten years of blogging with WordPress on this 10th Anniversary year, I realized that comment […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: akismet, blogging tips, comment spam, comment spam prevention, comments, endurance, evil, hacked, hacking, how to blog, persistence, security, security vulnerability, spam, spammers, vulnerability |
WordPress Anniversary: Comment Spam Lessons
It’s hard to believe that I’ve learned much from comment spammers over the years. I’ve learned that they are among the most hated folks in the world, yet you have to respect them as well. As I look back on ten years of blogging with WordPress on this 10th Anniversary year, I realized that comment […]