The best Plugin competition, The Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 (3.0), is underway. WordPress fans rejoice.
The annual WTC WordPress Plugin Competition has rocked the WordPress Community since 2005. Each event brings out the best and most creative WordPress Plugin authors competing for prizes, and many of the award winners and entrants are now [...]
In my Blog Herald WordPress News, I used to feature a round-up of WordPress-related podcasts and fan blogs offering great tips and useful information on using WordPress from the beginner level to advanced techniques. I’ve decided to continue this tradition here on Lorelle on WordPress.
Every week or so, I’ll publish a Round WordPress post featuring [...]
As most of you know, I’m extremely passionate about supporting and encouraging WordPress Plugin authors. I’ve written a love letter to WordPress Plugin authors, spent a month writing over 36 posts on nothing but WordPress Plugins, published extensive tips on how to install, configure, and use WordPress Plugins and another guide for finding Plugins, “Where [...]
With work underway with the Google/WordPress Summer of Code which includes work on the native gallery system within WordPress, let’s not overlook some of the WordPress Plugins which have taken the bare bones of the WordPress gallery feature and turned it into magic.
Some of these gallery Plugins were hard at work presenting images on [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips
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Blog Security is one of the top security blogs out there keeping an eye on all things blog security and WordPress. They’ve just released two great articles WordPress fans need to check out.
First is news of a video and blog post by Guvnr called “10 Tips to Make WordPress Hack Proof. The effort involved tips [...]
February 22, 2009 – 7:21 pm
I’ve just posted this week’s WordPress News: Can You Spot a WordPress Blog? WordPress 2.8 News, Plugin Directory Searchable, iPhone App Tested, and More on the Blog Herald.
Can you spot a WordPress blog? Are you sure? WordPress 2.7.1 released. Improvements on the WordPress Plugin Directory search functions. Help for those transferring from LiveJournal to WordPress.com, [...]
January 2, 2009 – 9:22 pm
I just published WordPress News: Weblog Tools Collection Scholarship Fund, WordPress at the Supreme Court, Top Plugin Authors, XML-RPC Trouble, and More, this week’s Blog Herald WordPress News report.
WordPress 2.7 downloads now passing 800,000. WordPress goes to the Supreme Court. Weblog Tools Collection announces college scholarship fund for WordPress students. WordPress 2.7 problems with [...]
December 26, 2008 – 4:42 am
Weblog Tools Collection has restarted its Plugin Review with an invitation to all WordPress Plugin authors and lovers to submit their WordPress Plugins to be reviewed over the next year. Starting January 4, 2009, they will be reviewing one Plugin a week as their Featured Plugin.
I’d like to take this opportunity to remind WordPress [...]
December 20, 2008 – 5:45 am
By Amir Helzer of ICanLocalize
With your help beginning in the first post on how to build a tourist community website with WordPress, I’ve been so honored by your collaboration and help to improve my community’s new tourist site, Baripedia, representing my town, Bariloche in Argentina.
With your guidance, you helped me determine which WordPress version [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blog building, blog development, blog navigation, blog tips, human translation, icanlocalize, localization, localize, machine translations, multi-lingual, multilingual, multilingual blogs, tourism, tourism blog, tourist blog, Translate, translating, translating blog content, translating blogs, translation, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes |
December 19, 2008 – 5:02 am
By Amir Helzer of ICanLocalize
In Building a Tourist Community Website With WordPress: Content Rules, I described how our new tourist community website, Baripedia, has made the decision to hire a writing professional to rewrite and edit all the content on our site to make it professional, web-friendly, SEO-friendly, and easy to read. My decisions have [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blog building, blog development, blog navigation, blog tips, tourism, tourism blog, tourist blog, Usability, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes |
December 18, 2008 – 9:49 pm
The past few weeks of the Blog Herald’s WordPress News reports that I do have been huge. Each one now takes many hours to produce, rounding up all the news from WordPress developers, Plugin and Theme developers, WordPress.com, WordPress fan podcasts and blogs, and the WordPress Community.
WordPress 2.7 is the biggest WordPress version ever, and [...]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress News
| Tags: how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress guides, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress upgrade, wordpress.com |
September 8, 2008 – 9:52 am
WordPress is working on seriously improving the WordPress Comments Panel in the Administration Panels interface. They are including the ability for the Administrator to reply directly from the Comments Panel, adding keyboard shortcuts for improved accessibility and efficiency, restoring the Edit Comment link, and more features to make handling comments easier.
The WordPress email comments feature [...]
August 23, 2008 – 2:15 pm
With the push towards a successful blog being defined by its comments, a new WordPress Plugin has appeared that may push the comment frenzy even more.
PlanetOzh has created the Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin which honors the popular blog conversation expert, Liz Strauss.
If you want to brag about your blog’s comment [...]
A lot of people are overwhelmed with the number and variety of WordPress Plugins available. Many admit that they would like to write a WordPress Plugin, but there already is at least two WordPress Plugins to do just about anything you want on your blog.
That’s not true. There are still plenty of needs out there [...]
