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Blog Exercises: Add Industry Events to Your Editorial Calendar

April 9, 2013 – 4:50 am

In the blog exercise to create an editorial calendar, I gave you many ideas for setting self-assignments and deadlines for content throughout the year on your blog. Don’t forget to investigate your industry to discover events, conferences, and news to add to the calendar. Whether you go or not, take time to research calendars and […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: annual events, blog exercises, blog news, blog writing, Blogging Tips, calendar, conferences, content, conventions, dates, deadlines, editorial calendar, editorial schedule, events, industry, industry events, industry news, meetings, schedule, self-assignments, social, training, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (4)

Blog Exercises: Does Your Site Look Spammy?

April 5, 2013 – 4:53 am

Does your site look spammy? How would you know whether or not your site looks spammy? It’s time for a spam check. Web design is hard, especially if you aren’t an expert. Yet, in many ways you are an expert if you are a fan of the web. You’ve seen enough sites to know the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Web Design | Tags: ad links, ads, advertising, author information, blog exercise, blyine, bold, colors, contact, content, content design, content development, cookie-cutter designs, design elements, expectations, instinct, italic, links, professional web designs, promotion, self-promotion, site colors, spam, spam sites, spammy sites, template designs, too many ads, trust, ugly web designs, ugly websites, underlines, Web Design, websites, Writing | Comments (8)

The Secret Recipe of Comment Spam Comments

April 4, 2013 – 3:05 pm

Mr. Louis Vuitton just sent me a message in my blog comments I’d like to share with you. I share this touching message because it is highly educational when it comes to the art of spam comments, and serves to remind us of why we love having Akismet, the best comment spam fighter, on our […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress News | Tags: akismet, comment spam, comments, evil, spam, spam comments, WordPress Tips | Comments (33)

Blog Exercises: Make an Elephant Out of a Fly

March 22, 2013 – 4:22 am

G.I. Gurdjieff said, “We have made an elephant out of a fly.” A friend of mine and fellow college professor, Mark Smith, is a dedicated follower of George Gurdjieff, a Russian spiritual leader. He’s been sharing some of his teachings with me. This one caught my attention and immediately had to be added to these […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, editing, exageration, mark smith, passion, rant, ranting, web writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (1)

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: How to Publish Code

February 25, 2013 – 4:04 am

I blog about the technical side of blogging, about WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, HTML, CSS, web design – code. I often blog about code. And people ask me code questions. I’ve become an expert in writing code so it looks like code on web pages. The time may come, or you may have already […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, Blogging Tips, code, code in comments, code in content, how to write code, publishing code, publishing code in comments, publishing code in posts, web writing, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips | Comments (4)

Blog Exercises: Update Your Author Description

February 22, 2013 – 4:30 am

Who are you? What do you do? How do you let the world know who you are on your blog? We’ll dig into your About Page later. For now, this blog exercise is dedicated to updating your profile on your site. In my popular series, “Managing Multiple Bloggers in WordPress,” I covered more than you […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: author bio, author byline, author description, author information, authors, bio, blog exercises, blog setup, byline, contributors, identity, maintenance, my profile, post meta data, post meta data section, profile, setup, site setup, users, what do you do, who are you | Comments (4)

Blog Exercises: Weekly Link Roundups

February 15, 2013 – 4:53 am

Many bloggers publish weekly or monthly link roundups, highlights of some of the interesting sites they’ve found on the web. Most use a variety of automation techniques to generate this link list, bookmarking the web pages to a bookmarking program that helps them generate this list and release it once a week. It’s a lazy […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blog writing, blogging, Blogging Tips, bookmarks, collections, how to create a link post, link lists, link roundups, links, roundup link posts, sharing, web publishing, web writing, Writing, writing tips | Comments (6)

Blog Exercises: Fix Images in Your Content

February 11, 2013 – 4:33 am

One of the most popular help requests on the WordPress forums is how to make the post text wrap around images. I wrote “Wrapping Text Around Images” in the WordPress Codex as a starting point many years ago. I explain it further in “How to Add Images in Your Post Content” on Lorelle Teaches, going […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: align images, alignment, blog exercise, blog exercises, blogging, Blogging Tips, graphics, image alignment, images, media, media uploader, multimedia, photographs, pictures, web writing, wordpress, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (1)

Blog Exercises: Comments and The Blog Bullies

February 6, 2013 – 4:12 am

No matter what we do or say, there will always be bullies and mean people. Some are mean intentionally, some can hurt unintentionally. And then there are those moments when we read the black letters on the white screen too much in-between the lines and come away feeling sick to your stomach. Welcome to the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog bullies, blog exercise, blog exercises, blog policies, Blogging Tips, bullies, bully, comment guidelines, comment rules, comment spam, comments, comments policy, dark side, evil, guidelines, interaction, interactivity, negative, policies, protection, responses, rules, site policies, spam, spammers, spirit, trolls, web publishing, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (9)

Blog Exercises: Taking a Risk With What You Blog About

February 1, 2013 – 4:26 am

In 2006, I spent three months thrashing, not sleeping at night, agonizing over what I had written and desired to publish. I knew it would be received with resistance at the least, revenge at the worst. I had already tested the waters and found out that the subject could get me in very hot water […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blogging dangers, Blogging Tips, content theft, copyright, copyright violation, defend yourself, fear, hacks, intimidation, jonathan bailey, plagiarism, risk, risky blogging, victim, web writing, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (19)

Happy Anniversary WordPress: The Beginnings

January 23, 2013 – 8:55 pm

On August 16, 2005, Lorelle on WordPress became blog ID number 72 on the brand new WordPress.com. The first post was appropriately titled “Lorelle on WordPress” to introduce the site. Looking back, it’s amazing how true to form that I’ve kept the mission of this site all these years later as proposed in the first […]

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Blog Exercises: The Content Project Form

January 22, 2013 – 4:36 am

In these year-long Blog Exercises dealing with editorial or content calendars, we’re working on exploring all the dates you can add to your calendar, including adding seasonal post content and other date-sensitive blog posts and articles. In this exercise, we’re going to create a content project form. The goal of a content project form is […]