If you have been following these Blog Exercises for the past six months, your site should be rocking. I asked you early on to define what you do clearly as it helped to clarify your site purpose and goals and your reason for blogging. You were to define your specific audience, part of identifying like […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips
| Tags: analytics, audience, blog exercises, demographics, numbers, statistics, tracking stats, web analytics, wordpress, wordpress stats, WordPress Tips, wordpress.com stats |
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
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: akismet, comment spam, comments, evil, spam, spam comments, wordpress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips |
I’m rarely totally and completely blown away by anything, and yesterday at WordCamp Dallas, John Pozadzides blew the whole crowd away with his new blog statistics program, Woopra. John is a blogger, author of the popular One Man’s Blog, and an experienced web user, web company owner and business man. He understands the importance blog […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom
| Tags: blog statistics, blog stats, blog traffic, how to use wordpress, woopra, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com |
I recently saw a question posed in a forum on whether or not the person should switch from WordPress to Blogger, Movable Type, or one of the other blogging programs and platforms in order to stop the accumulating amount of comment spam on their blog. Honestly, do you really think comment spammers are paying attention […]
February 26, 2007 – 5:10 pm
There are so many WordPress Plugins that deal with blog comments, I’ve been working on this post since a month before this month long series on WordPress Plugins began. I’ve not covered all of them, so please include your favorites and why in the comments below. There are so many things you can do with […]
February 12, 2007 – 1:38 pm
It’s intimidating to write a review and listing of WordPress Plugins to show your blog stats when the WordPress Plugin Database lists 81 WordPress Plugins under Statistics. Yikes! And that’s just to start! As part of this month of WordPress Plugins, there is no way I can list all of them, and many of them […]
August 18, 2006 – 8:24 am
Comments were one of the main reasons I started exploring various Content Management Systems (CMS) a few years ago. After 10 years with a static website, I wanted feedback. I wanted interaction. Sites were just beginning to offer comments outside of guest books and contact forms, and I craved a responsive and interactive audience. A […]
January 12, 2006 – 7:17 am
Virtual Browser is an interesting way to blog secretly and anonymously, posting comments on blogs, and staying invisible to web statistics and information collectors as you surf. I’m sure there are many other methods, but this one was particularly intriguing. All you have to do is visit their website and enter in the URL you […]
Table of Contents What are they saying about Lorelle VanFossen and Lorelle on WordPress Who is Lorelle? Feeds and Subscriptions Claims to Fame Legal Policies Copyright and Translation Policies Comment Policy Guest blogging and contributions Advertising, Marketing, and Reviews Disclosure Privacy Web Accessibility Liability The following are the policies, licenses, and legal issues associated with […]
February 23, 2015 – 11:41 am
In the previous Lorelle’s WordPress School tutorial we covered preparing images for uploading to WordPress. Today’s lesson is on how to upload and embed the images in posts and Pages. As a reminder, the sequence and data required for uploading an image to WordPress is: Using the Media Uploader in a post or Page, the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: adding images to wordpress, embedding images, images, learn wordpress, media, multimedia, photographs, uploading images, wordpress guide, wordpress help, wordpress images, wordpress media, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
September 29, 2014 – 4:35 am
In 2012 and 2013, I did extensive research for the grant program to develop and rewrite the Web Developer degree program at Clark College. This research included an analysis of current and future job opportunities for students graduating with that degree with a solid understanding of WordPress. Now that the program has completed its first […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Classes, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: clark college, education, jobs, web content, Web Design, web development, web practitioner, web writing, wordpress, wordpress classes, wordpress education, wordpress jobs, WordPress News, wordpress training |
September 9, 2014 – 1:11 pm
Reading “7 Things You Need to Know about SEO in 2014” from Compete Pulse, I was fascinating to read that “size matters:” Most blog posts range between 400 and 600 words, but the ideal length for highest ranking is actually around 1,500. Many still believe that a successful website is one that offers the information […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: blogging, blogging tips, email, how to write for the web, search engines, seo, social media, social media writing, texting, web writing, WordPress News, writing for the web |
In this part of my series on WordPress For Writers, I’ll cover the basic things to consider when using WordPress on site promoting the work of writers and authors. For more on the subject, see other articles in the WordPress for Writers and Authors series. This article assumes you have some basic familiarity with WordPress […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: author sites, author websites, web writing, wordpress, wordpress for authors, wordpress for writers, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, writer sites, writer websites, Writing, writing for the web |
March 15, 2014 – 12:23 am
I will be speaking this year at several workshops and conferences on the subject of “WordPress for Writers.” The workshop covers the basic elements of WordPress content structure and organization, then adds the complexities of a site for writers and authors. This is one of a series of articles on WordPress for Writers and Authors. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: author websites, authors, wordpress, wordpress for authors, wordpress for writers, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, writer websites, writers, Writing, writing for the web |
August 27, 2013 – 4:06 am
As we proceed through this year of blogging tips and exercises, we’ll talk more about statistics and web analytics to help you check in with yourself that you are on the right track. Today’s blog exercise is to familiarize yourself with tracking your site’s stats, learning the key numbers and data to watch. I introduced […]
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: analytics, blog exercises, blogging tips, clicks, data, demographics, numbers, popular posts, referrerals, referrers, statistics, stats, stats plugins, traffic, visitors, web analytics, web stats, wordpress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips, wordpress.com stats |
The Secret Recipe of Comment Spam Comments
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 […]