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Blog Exercises for March

March 29, 2013 – 4:06 am

March was a busy month in my Blog Exercises series. Wow, are we already done with the third month in this year long series? The participants explored a wide variety of blog exercises on editing, blogger identity, content organization, and web writing. There were exercises to motivate and inspire you, and help you inspire your […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blog maintenance, Blogging Tips, improving your blog, site improvements, site maintenance, summary, web writing, Writing | Leave a Comment

Blog Exercises: Preview Posts

March 20, 2013 – 4:54 am

Do you preview a post before publishing? If not, consider adding this extra step to the publishing process. Why? I’m human. So are you. We mess things up. No matter how careful you are, you will make mistakes. That’s life. By double checking what your post will look like before you release it to the […]

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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)

Blog Exercises: Know Your Pageviews

March 13, 2013 – 4:28 am

In this Blog Exercise, it is time to learn some website jargon, specifically, what are all the web pages of your site called. I teach web publishing with WordPress and web design courses at two colleges, and I’m stunned that students don’t know at the lack of proper names for all the parts of a […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Tags: author, blog exercises, blog names, Blogging Tips, categories, database, design, front page, generated web pages, jargon, modular, multi-post pageview, multiple posts, names, pages, pageviews, php, posts, single post pageview, tags, template files, template tags, terminology, Web Design, web design names, web pages, wordpress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (2)

Creating Footnotes in WordPress

February 26, 2013 – 11:35 pm

Among the many techniques students and clients request in my WordPress and blogging workshops and classes1, requests for creating footnotes in WordPress are rare, but they do happen. There are very distinctive differences between traditional writing and web publishing styles.2 Footnotes have been replaced by links to cite a reference or resource to support the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: academia, academic, bibliography, citation, creative writing, credits, endnotes, foot notes, footnote links, footnote lists, footnotes, jump links, notes, page jumps, technical writing, web publishing, wordpress, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (1)

Blog Exercises: Curing Uncategorized Fever

January 24, 2013 – 4:21 am

We’ve all seen it. I call it Uncategorized Fever. By default, any post not categorized in WordPress is assigned to the Uncategorized category. The Uncategorized category appears in your Categories and Tags list or clouds. In tag clouds, the larger the word, the more posts with that tag. If Uncategorized is clearly visible in these […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: adding categories, blog exercise, blog exercises, categories, category, changing categories, default category, deleting categories, maintenance, organization, uncategorized, web writing, writing for the web | Comments (5)

Blog Exercises: Random Editing Day

January 18, 2013 – 4:26 am

Welcome to the first “Random Editing Day” as part of the Blog Exercises series. The purpose of Random Editing Day is to help you edit and upkeep your site, but also to revisit and revise posts of the past. Throughout this year we are going to have monthly editing exercises to help you flex your […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises | Tags: archives, blog exercise, blog exercises, blog writing, Blogging Tips, editing, how to blog, how to edit, past posts, random edit day, random editing day, spelling, web publishing, web writing, writing tips | Comments (10)

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

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 Tips, WordPress News | Tags: WordPress News, wordpress upgrade, video, multimedia, images, image management, wordpress uypdate, media uploader, media, wordpress media, wordpress media manager, media manger, audio, wordpress playlist, playlist editor, wordpress images, mangaing images | Comments (25)

Banned, Blocked, and Censored Bloggers

October 4, 2012 – 2:25 pm

According to the American Library Association, September 30 through October 6, 2012, is a salute to Banned Books week. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging News | Tags: arrest, ban, banned bloggers, banned blogs, banned blogs list, blocked blogs, bloggers, blogging, blogging censorship, censorship, civil rights, eff, electronic frontier foundation, freedom, freedom of speech, laws, legal, list of banned blogs, politics, speech, Writing | Comments (12)

How Many is Too Many WordPress Plugins?

September 27, 2012 – 2:17 pm

In “How Many WordPress Plugins Should You Install on Your Site?” WPBeginner asks a question I bring up in my workshops, training programs, and college courses: How many WordPress Plugins are too many. The article brings up some valid points worth considering when choosing WordPress Plugins. Are WordPress Plugins a security risk? How would you […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Tags: choosing a plugin, installing a plugin, plugin performance, plugin security, plugins, site performance, themes, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes | Comments (48)

DuckDuckGo: The Search Engine You Need to Meet

September 19, 2012 – 11:18 am

Recently, DuckDuckGo has been turning up in my referrers list. Curious about the name, and thinking it was a spam site, DuckDuckGo needed investigation. Seems I’ve been missing out on what could be the major competition to Google as a search engine. Here is a quick summary of what I learned about DuckDuckGo. It is […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, Web Browsers, Web Wise | Tags: analytics, anonymous, browser add-on, browser plugin, browsers, dnt, do not track, duckduckgo, filter bubble, google, google search, legal, mobile apps, pagerank, policies, privacy, privacy statement, privacy violation, search directory, search engine, security, seo, serp, tracking, web analytics, web browsers | Comments (9)

Adding, Deleting, and Changing a WordPress Category

September 13, 2012 – 9:02 pm

Time to add a new category to WordPress? Have enough content within a specific topic and want to add it to your category lists? Changing your mind about a category name and wish to change it? Want to delete an entire category worth of posts because you don’t want to cover that topic anymore? Adding […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress Tips, WordPress News, Writing, Blogging Tips | Tags: wordpress, wordpress tags, tags, categories, WordPressDotCom, wordpress categories, changing categories, edit categories, change categories, move categories, delete category, move category, renaming category, categories in wordpress | Comments (42)

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.” […]