August 10, 2017 – 10:13 am
For the past three to four years, WordPress.com users have been “experimenting” with the what is known as the “new” WordPress.com interface. A drag-and-drop-meets-wysiwymg interface (What You See is What You MIGHT Get), it is designed to make interaction with WordPress easier. I’m still waiting. What it continues to do is make my students and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom
| Tags: browser, browser redirects, browser scripts, edit post, edit post interface, greasemonkey, redirects, wordpress, WordPress classic interface, wordpress interface, WordPress Tips, wp-admin |
Welcome to this special preview page on Lorelle on WordPress. This is where all the special announcements and offers are hidden. If you would like to be notified when there are special announcements, news, and events related to Lorelle VanFossen and Lorelle on WordPress, we encourage you to sign up for our emails. We send […]
October 19, 2016 – 12:16 pm
I’ve been asked repeatedly to make my views on the US 2016 Election public, even though it goes against all this site stands for, an unbiased educational site to support WordPress users and bloggers. In light of current events, and the impact the web has had on those events, the time has come for my […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging
| Tags: clinton, debates, election, hillary clinton, politics, president, trump, united states, us election 2016, vote, voting |
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 |
We’ve started our mini-series on adding policies to your WordPress site with some basic information and details on how to organize and structure policies on your site. It’s time to evaluate the five different policies featured on almost all websites regardless of topic or goals in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. Remember, we add […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: content theft, copyright, copyright policy, copyright violations, intellectual property, learn wordpress, legal, policies, policy, terms of service, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
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 |
UPDATE: WordPress.com reports that they have fixed the issue but it will take time for the images to process as there have been millions of images uploaded during the past 12 hours. They recommend waiting patiently. Some sites may update immediately, some may take 24 hours, though it is likely to be less. Just keep […]
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 |
April 12, 2015 – 10:18 am
The last lesson was the HTML and CSS Tutorial, another mini-series on Lorelle’s WordPress School. This is a very basic tutorial on HTML and CSS to prepare you for WordPress site customization and WordPress Themes. This tutorial in the series will help you understand the basics of an HTML tag, the architectural code wrapped around […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: css, html, html tags, learn wordpress, text editor, web browser, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
In 2006, the First Annual CSS Naked Day was held, a tribute to honor web designers, the painters of our websites. I celebrate the holiday most years on this site. Every year on April 9, web developers, designers, and those honoring web design and programming celebrate by removing the styles on our sites for 24 […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Web Browsers, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: annual event, css, css naked day, css naked day instructions, how to turn off the css, html, WordPress News |
March 30, 2015 – 10:07 am
Do you realize we spend more time talking about the web then understanding how the main tool we use to access the web works? I think we take the web browser for granted. Without it, you wouldn’t be able to watch all those YouTube videos. You wouldn’t be able to let the world know what […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: chrome, css, firefox, html, html tags, internet explorer, learn wordpress, safari, web browser, web browser tips, web browsers, web development, web history, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
On the test site for Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course you started a five part article series, each one exploring different content features and functions of WordPress. So far, you’ve explored lists, headings, preparing images to upload to WordPress, the visual and text editors, embedding video, creating a gallery, blockquotes and citations, and the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: article series, article series links, internal links, intrasite links, learn wordpress, link to a post, links, post links, table of contents, web writing, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, writing for the web |
No matter what you do on the web, you will quote or cite someone, some place, or something. In today’s assignment and tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, I’m going to teach you how to quote and cite in WordPress, and save yourself from a copyright violation. By publishing content on your site, […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, Writing
| Tags: author credits, blockquotes, citations, cite, content, copyright, copyright fair use, copyrighted content, copyrighted material, credit the source, credits, html, learn wordpress, other people's stuff, quotes, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
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 […]
I’ve dreamed of teaching a class or workshop on nothing but links. Web links fascinate me. They are the connective tissue of the web, the glue that binds us all together in the virtual space, an economy in and of themselves, and links can save lives, they are that powerful. In Lorelle’s WordPress School free […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: how to make a link, hyperlinks, learn wordpress, linking, links, wordpress guide, wordpress help, wordpress links, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |