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Fight Against Trackback Death

March 27, 2013 – 12:25 pm

I’ve heard the many threats of trackbacks and pingbacks dying over the years, going the way of the virtual dinosaur, but I’m terrified to hear from Andraz Tori that Typepad is killing pingback functionality and stating that WordPress might be considering it, removing the joy of getting a notification that someone online is talking about […]

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Blog Exercises: How to Tag Posts

March 19, 2013 – 4:16 am

Categories are your site’s table of contents. Tags are your index words. While it is simple to explain the two basic organizational and navigation elements of a WordPress site, coming up with tags for each post is a struggle many bloggers battle. Tags represent micro-categorization of your site’s content. It helps the visitor find closely […]

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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. […]

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WordPress Anniversary: WordPress and Evil

March 11, 2013 – 1:29 pm

As I look back on the ten years of WordPress, there is a dark side to blogging. While many blamed WordPress for the evil, like guns, WordPress doesn’t cause evil, people cause evil. In fact, WordPress, Automattic, and the WordPress Community has fought longer and harder against the evil doers in the world than most […]

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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 […]

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Blog Exercises for February

February 28, 2013 – 5:31 pm

We’ve completed the second month of Blog Exercises in February. Are you still with me? Here is the list. Blog Exercises: Taking a Risk With What You Blog About Blog Exercises: Honor the Past with Anniversaries and Birthdays Blog Exercises: Your Byline Blog Exercises: Comments and The Blog Bullies Blog Exercises: Backlinks Blog Exercises: Category […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blog maintenance, blogging, Blogging Tips, how to blog, maintenance, organization, planning, schedule, site maintenance, web writing, wordpress, 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)

Blog Exercises: Clean Up Your Most Popular Posts

February 21, 2013 – 4:59 am

“It’s dated 2008. It must be useless.” This was the response to an article I tweeted out recently. Yes, the article was dated 2008. Did that mean it wasn’t a valid, timely, and invaluable resource? It was, but that’s not the point. Some people equate old with useless. With the aging population gaining the majority […]

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Blog Exercises: Trackbacks

February 19, 2013 – 4:40 am

Trackbacks are like an invitation to a party. It is also like legitimate gossip. Trackbacks are notes telling you that someone is talking about you. Trackbacks are part of the important connections that form the true sense of the “web” on the Internet. WordPress and most modern publishing platforms generate trackbacks automatically. As common as […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Blog Exercises: Gravatars

January 31, 2013 – 4:23 am

This Blog Exercise will help you update your global recognition on WordPress and all Gravatar-enabled sites. I’m going to let TimeThief of one cool site, a site dedicated to all things WordPress blogging, tips, tools, and tutorials, explain Gravatars in her post, “Gravatars for Global Recognition.” Whether you blog under your real name or under […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips | Tags: avatar, blog exercise, blog exercises, blogger, blogger identity, contributors, gravatar, image, personal image, pictures, profile, profile image, profiles, user image, user picture, user profile image, users, wordpress | Comments (6)

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 (9)

Blog Exercises: Check Your Dates

January 15, 2013 – 4:42 am

It’s 2013. Time to update your calendars and your blog dates. Sara Tetreault of Go Gingham asked me to cover updating copyright dates on your blog, so this Blog Exercise is dedicated to that and all the dates that need changing on your site now that we are into a new year. Most WordPress Themes […]