Lorelle versus Jeffro2pt0 on WordPress Weekly This Friday

Get ready for Friday. Lorelle and Jeffro2pt0 will duke it out on the WordPress Weekly Show! Due to a variety of unfortunate circumstances, including tornadoes, last week’s WordPress Weekly live show was rescheduled to this Friday, April 18, 2008, with myself and host, Jeffro2pt0. You have no excuses now to join us Friday at 9PM […]

WordCamp Dallas Videos

Weblog Tools Collection has a list of the videos and special interviews of the speakers at WordCamp Dallas, including my presentation on WordPress Tips. Check it out and tell me if I did okay. And be sure and watch everyone else. They did much better. Related Articles WordCamp Connections WordCamp 2007: Kicking Ass Content Connections […]

Blog Resources: Researching the Research, Finding the Facts, and Seeking Supporting Evidence

As part of my ongoing series on blog resources, covering the many online resources I use to help me blog, you can tell that I don’t deal with rumors or guesses. I like facts. I don’t mind a few estimates, but I like being right when I make a claim or statement, so I work […]

The Real Hidden Value of Old Post Traffic

Since creating my Weekly Digest, I’m forced to look through my blog stats on a regular basis, something I’ve been loath to do for many years. Most of it doesn’t interest me as I’ve been doing this too long to worry over the micro-statistics, but I’ve been watching an interesting trend that has now turned […]

What Did You Learn Last Year? Do You Look Back?

Again, I am honored by my dear friend, Edrei Zahari of Footsteps in the Mirror, who continues to take on my blog challenge asking what you have learned this year. He wrote about what he learned in 2006 and continues the tradition with What Have You Learnt In 2007?. I think it’s a brilliant idea […]

Is It Time For You To Consolidate Your Blogs?

I’d Rather Be Writing offers “My Blog and Podcast Site Are Now Merged into One — Steps on How I Did It”, an interesting step-by-step guide on combining two WordPress blogs into one, with tips for combining a podcast blog with a regular WordPress blog. Maintaining two sites was burdensome. Whenever I published a new […]

Considering Writing Some WordPress Tips?

Do you want to write a WordPress tip? I encourage you to do so, either on your blog, on the WordPress Support Forums, or for the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. It takes a lot of volunteer work to create a body of work for WordPress users to rely upon to help […]

Blog Challenge: Blog About a Holiday Tradition

Your blogging challenge this week is dedicated to the holidays which fall, for most cultures, in the last month or so of the year. Be it Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hanuka, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, or whatever holidays occur for your culture, religion or nation. Your blogging challenge is: Blog about a traditional holiday ritual, habit, memory, or […]

Blog Struggles: Ideas and Drafts

For years, I’ve had a bunch of drafts sitting in my blog’s “draft box”, a list of posts at the top of my Write Post and Manage Posts panel that remind me of unfinished work. I’ve written reminders to you to clean out your post draft list once in a while, but I’m still as […]

5 Advanced Techniques for Creating Plugins and Widgets for WordPress.com

by engtech of Internet Duct Tape As a reader of Lorelle On WordPress you might already know there is more than one type of WordPress blogging software, but most people who know what WordPress is have no idea there are different flavours of it. WordPress also called self-hosted WordPress, or WordPress.org has one blog that […]

Liz Strauss Guides Lorelle on a Quest To Find Her Passion

When Liz Strauss called me to warn me she was going to make me the “star” of a story as part of Joanna’s Thematic Links Post Writing Challenge, using the post titles of all the bloggers who participated in a story, I was a little nervous. The result is delightful and fun: Liz’s Thematic Links […]

16 Tips for Blog Idea Brainstorming

By John Pozadzides (“Who is that eh?!?” … exactly.) In the last week at least 5 people have asked me, “how do you come up with so many interesting articles?” To be honest, I probably wouldn’t have chosen to write about this topic if Lorelle hadn’t asked me to (anything for you Lorelle!) because I’m […]

What to write about: How to get ideas when you run out of E-steam

By J.T Dabbagian of JTDabbagian.com As your blogging journey continues, you’ll find yourself stuck on that path of writing. You’ll realize one day that you have absolutely nothing to blog about. Now, before you jump up in your underwear and run around your block screaming bloody murder, just know that harvesting new content really isn’t […]

How to Avoid Mental Gymnastics While Writing Your Blog

By Greg Balanko-Dickson A reminder to keep it simple. While awaiting the arrival of Lorelle’s blogging book, I flipped open What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting by Ted Demopoulos. In writing his book, Ted Demopoulos interviewed a bunch of people about blogging. These gems come courtesy Guy Kawasaki: Evangelizing your blog […]

Liz Strauss Offers 20 Blog Promotion Guides

Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Blogger offers 20 Blog Promotion Guides to Inform Your Strategy, a fabulous list of articles, lists, step-by-step guides, and the things you need to know to help promote your blog properly in today’s online marketing world. Site Search Tags: liz strauss, successful bloggers, successful and outstanding bloggers, blog promotion, […]