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WordPress School: HTML and CSS Parent-Child Relationship

April 19, 2015 – 5:39 am

So far in this mini-series on HTML and CSS for Lorelle’s WordPress School, we’ve covered the basics and gave you a test HTML file to experiment with, explored the basics of HTML tags, inline styles with CSS, HTML embedded styles where the styles are removed from the HTML and placed in a <style> HTML tag […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes | Tags: css, css lessons, css parent child relationship, css styles, html, html lessons, html tags, styles, tags, web desgin, wordpress school, WordPress Themes | Comments (4)

WordPress School: Category Names

March 16, 2015 – 7:16 pm

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 | 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 | Comments (4)

WordPress School: Categories and Tags

February 4, 2015 – 4:29 am

We’ve covered WordPress posts and Pages, the core content elements associated with a basic WordPress site. Today we are going to focus on posts, specifically how they are organized and structured within a WordPress site. Categories are your site’s Table of Contents. Tags are your site’s index words. Honestly, it is that simple. Think of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress School | Tags: categories, learn wordpress, site organization, tags, wordpress categories, wordpress content, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress tags, wordpress tutorials | Comments (15)

Blog Exercises: Start Here Guides

September 4, 2013 – 4:38 am

Training for educators using online learning management systems for high schools and college recommend creating a “Start Here” page to guide the student through the process. If the process is complicated, this makes sense. The question I wanted to know from trainers is why don’t they provide training upon entrance to the school so each […]

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Blog Exercises: How to Tag Posts – The Quiz

July 12, 2013 – 4:13 am

In “Blog Exercises: How to Tag Posts,” I covered the basics of how to tag your posts. The following blog exercise is a quiz to see how you would tag the following post. Read through the article on tagging posts for a review. Read the following fictional short story I wrote called “The Story of […]

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Blog Exercises: Spell Checkup on Categories and Tags

June 15, 2013 – 4:16 am

Oh no! I was writing out a tag in WordPress and the auto-suggest feature popped up with a misspelled tag name! Yikes! Today’s blog exercise is to clean up your tag and category names to ensure you’ve not made the same mistakes. To review your category names in WordPress, go to Posts > Categories and […]

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Blog Exercises: Page and Post Abuse

May 31, 2013 – 4:50 am

If you are on WordPress, you are familiar with the concept of Pages and Posts. If you are on another Content Management System (CMS), it is likely you have similar content with a different name. In WordPress, Pages, with a capital P, are pseudo-static web pages on your site. They exist outside of the reverse […]

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Blog Exercises: Dissecting Post Categories

May 13, 2013 – 4:17 am

In a recent article, Noah Weiss shared his struggle to figure out categories and tags on his personal site. I know many of you following these Blog Exercises have also struggled to figure out your categories, so I thought Noah’s site would be a perfect example, He has gratefully given me permission to rip his […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips | Tags: blog categories, categories, categories and tags, categorization, content, content management, content organization, navigation, post categories, site organization, structure, tags, web writing, what do you blog about, wordpress, WordPress Tips, Writing | Comments (6)

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: 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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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 […]

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Blog Exercises: Category Cross-Pollination

February 12, 2013 – 4:35 am

In these Blog Exercises, I am faced with a category quandary. For the most part, these are blogging tips, so they should go into my Blogging Tips category as well as Blog Exercises category, right? Maybe right. These Blog Exercises are meant to have some form of order, though they may be done in any […]

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Blog Exercises: Category Counting

February 8, 2013 – 4:39 am

Think of categories and tags this way: Categories are your site’s table of contents. Tags are your index words. In general, most sites should have 5-12 categories max. Each category should represent a “body of work,” a collection of posts related to a focused topic. When you find a blog with dozens of categories, what […]

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Adding, Deleting, and Changing a WordPress Category

September 13, 2012 – 9:02 pm

Time to add a new category to WordPress? Have enough content within a specific topic and want to add it to your category lists? Changing your mind about a category name and wish to change it? Want to delete an entire category worth of posts because you don’t want to cover that topic anymore? Adding […]

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Tags Arrive on WordPress.com Blogs

September 21, 2007 – 2:52 pm

With the announcement of the built-in tag feature in the upcoming release of WordPress 2.3, I’ve been waiting for WordPress.com to get tags as we are the beta testers of the WordPress World. Well, today they arrived. At the bottom of your Write Post panel’s editing box, you will see a new form for Tags. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom | Tags: categories, how to use wordpress, post categories, post tags, tagging, tags, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress tags, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com | Comments (59)