This weekend is the granddaddy of WordCamps, WordCamp San Francisco 2009 on May 30, 2009. Registration is closed at over 700 attendees for this one day event packed with a ton of the top blogging, social media, search engine, business, and WordPress experts. I’ll be there, so be sure and find me for a hug. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordCamps, WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News
| Tags: blog events, how to use wordpress, wordcamp, wordpress, wordpress events, wordpress help, wordpress meetups, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
January 30, 2007 – 4:45 pm
The following are upcoming events related to WordPress and Blogging, as well as some interesting web technologies conferences and events. Unless otherwise listed ($$$), these events are free or very inexpensive. For more information on these events, contact the hosts. For more information on WordPress and blogging events in general, check out my WordPress Events […]
January 17, 2007 – 3:34 am
The following are upcoming events related to WordPress and Blogging, as well as some interesting web technologies conferences and events. Unless otherwise listed ($$$), these events are free or very inexpensive. For more information on these events, contact the hosts. For more information on WordPress and blogging events in general, check out my WordPress Events […]
August 11, 2016 – 12:12 pm
Let’s call this person “wise” using air quotes to give you a description of where they come from in life. This “wise” person confronted to me at a public event to announce that WordPress was evil and must be destroyed. “After all,” he informed me soundly. “While WordPress says it supports freedom of speech, it […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom
| Tags: abuse, censorship, copyright, copyright violation, freedom of speech, the business of wordpress, threats, wordpress, WordPress News |
It’s time to talk about policies in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. While every website, personal or professional, requires some policies, learning how to publish policies on a WordPress site involves learning about WordPress Pages as a content type, customizing the navigation menu, using jump links, creating lists, customizing links in Widgets, and a […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: content, content organization, content structure, learn wordpress, menus, navigation, pages, policies, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress pages, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 22, 2016 – 4:07 am
I’ve just finished five years of teaching non-stop college and community education workshops and programs on WordPress for beginners, novices, experts, web designers, web developers, web programmers, and those who think they know everything but still realize they have a lot to learn. I love that last group as they are willing to learn and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blogging, blogging tips, wordpress advice, wordpress content, wordpress customization, wordpress help, wordpress installation, wordpress organization, wordpress setup, wordpress structure, WordPress Tips |
In the last tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course covering the web browser, your gateway to the web and WordPress, we covered bookmarks and how to save a web page for later access and reading. In this tutorial, we take bookmarks a little further by exploring browser bookmarklets and user scripts, small but […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: bookmarks, browser bookmarks, browser tips, browser user scripts, browsers, learn wordpress, read later, read web pages offline, save bookmarks, save web page, save web page for reference, save web page to read later, send to, sendto, user scripts, userscripts, web browser, web browser tips, web browsers, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
Welcome to week 9 of Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. Last week, we covered: WordPress School: Pageviews WordPress School: Polls and Surveys WordPress School: How to View a Web Page Source Code WordPress School: Image Lessons WordPress School: Image Lessons – Introduction WordPress School: Header Art Images WordPress School: Text on Images WordPress School: […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress School
| Tags: graphic design, graphics, html, images, learn wordpress, publish press, summary, udpate, weekly summary, WordCamps, wordpress events, wordpress guide, wordpress help, wordpress meetups, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
WordPress WordPress School Blogging Blog Exercises How may I help? Blogging News, Blogging Tips, Web Browsers, Writing, Web Design, WordPress News, Classes, WordCamps, WordPress Events, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, WordPress.com
Press Publish is a one-day conference in Portland, Oregon, and Phoenix, Arizona, described as “featuring inspiring WordPress bloggers and the people behind WordPress.com. I’d rename it to “Rocking Your World with Inspired Authors and Web Publishers on WordPress in the Pacific Northwest!” I will be attending the Portland event on March 28, 2015, and the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News
| Tags: authors, bloggers, conferences, events, press publish, publishers, wordpress events, WordPress News, wordpress special events, writers |
In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course you are to create a test site on WordPress.com or wherever you choose to experiment. It is your WordPress personal sandbox. This doesn’t mean you can do anything you want in the sandbox. The goal of the test site it to emulate a real site, influencing the decisions […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: adding categories, categories, categories and tags, categorizing content, content organization, learn wordpress, site organization, tags, wordpress categories, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress tags, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 12, 2015 – 6:39 am
We’ve just started Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course and you are welcome to join at any time. It is a slow-moving, at-you-own-pace course to learn WordPress from the inside out. As you go through the course, you will need to find more help and resources on WordPress, and this is your starting list. Below […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: learn wordpress, wordpress documentation, wordpress forums, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress references, wordpress resources, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
January 16, 2015 – 1:18 pm
Are you ready to join Lorelle’s WordPress School? Let’s get going. Here is what you need to know. To participate, you need the following: A free WordPress.com site or other test site for experimentation Join and participate in the WordPress School Google+ Community Do the assignments and tasks associated with each lesson Comment on the […]
November 13, 2014 – 9:24 am
The next WordPress Social Meetup in Vancouver, Washington, is this Sunday, November 16 at 4-7PM. Reserve your spot now on the WordPress PDX Meetup page. We will be getting our social WordPress on in the the Parkway Plaza Building near the Vancouver Mall, a quick hop for those crossing I-205 from Portland or up I-5 […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News
| Tags: vancouver, washington, wordpress, wordpress events, wordpress group, wordpress help, wordpress meeteup, WordPress News, wordpress social, wordpress social meetup |
October 13, 2014 – 5:30 pm
The last WordPress Social Meetup in Vancouver, Washington, was such a success, we’re going forward with these monthly meetings. Vancouver, Washington, is just a few minutes from downtown Portland, and our next meeting is this Sunday, October 19, from 4-7PM. Please arrive by 4:15PM to be allowed into the building. It is normally closed on […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News
| Tags: portland, vancouver, wordpress, wordpress events, wordpress help, wordpress meetups, WordPress News, wordpress social, wordpress social meetup |