January 18, 2009 – 1:25 pm
I just published WordPress News: Buddy Press Almost Ready, WordCamp Las Vegas Success, Plugin Author Tips, WordPress Tattoo on the Blog Herald covering: WordPress news about Matt Mullenweg’s New Year’s Resolutions set a plan for WordPress in 2009. BuddyPress nearing release from beta. WordCamp Las Vegas was a resounding success. This weekend is WordCamp Jakarta. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: hacked, hacking, how to use wordpress, security, security vulnerability, vulnerability, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
By Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today Users of the self-hosted version of WordPress have always had a lot of tools for protecting their site and their feeds. They have always had a variety of plugins for protecting content, including anti-scraping, content theft detection and much more. Even the ability to edit themes and the core […]
By Jonathan Bailey
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Posted in blogging tips, WordPress, WordPressDotCom
| Tags: conten theft, copyright infringement, how to use wordpress, plagiarism, rss, scraping, spam blogs, splogs, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com |
December 10, 2007 – 4:34 am
The World Intellectual Property Organization presents the Creative Heritage Project: IP Guidelines for Documenting, Recording and Digitizing Intangible Cultural Heritage, a project to help cultures around the world preserve and protect their history and traditions in a digital world.
September 10, 2007 – 3:59 am
I’ve written extensively about the choices you have in responding to negative comments and bloggers. You can respond or ignore, but never retaliate. However, a few months ago, Darren Rowse of Problogger was the victim of a spammer and hacker and it made me want to jump up and hit back, as I’m sure it […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress Tips
| Tags: hacked, hacking, how to use wordpress, security, security vulnerability, vulnerability, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
Many blogs feature more than one blogger contributing to the blog’s content. There are WordPress Plugins that can help you control access to your WordPress blog as well as help customize the blog to accommodate multiple bloggers on one blog. As part of my almost finished month long series on WordPress Plugins, I wanted to […]
Feeds are the hottest technology on the web today, as far as I’m concerned. I get my news through my feed reader, bringing the web to me instead of me going to it. People are exchanging information through feeds, tracking industries, investments, news, and story ideas. I’ve got three feeds in my sidebar, showcasing links […]
February 27, 2007 – 2:18 pm
As noted in Subscribe, Email Mailing List, Blog Update Alerts, and Newsletter WordPress Plugins and WordPress Plugins for Comments from the month long series of WordPress Plugins, there are a lot of ways for you to keep in contact with your blog’s readers. There are also different ways for them to get in contact with […]
February 11, 2007 – 8:10 am
WordPress Plugins come in two styles: drop-in and mess with. Those are my terms, not the official ones. Drop in WordPress Plugins are Plugins you upload, activate, and then interact with only through the WordPress Administration Panels. Mess With WordPress Plugins are the ones you install and interact with through the Administration Panels, but they […]
February 3, 2007 – 2:01 am
Yesterday, I showcased a ton of your posts about your favorite WordPress Plugins, the ones you feel you can’t live without on your WordPress blogs. Scanning through all those favorite WordPress Plugins lists, I found that a lot of you chose the same top favorite WordPress Plugins. The top plugins listed most frequently by you, […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: 30 days of wordpress plugins, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, 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 […]
August 10, 2014 – 4:36 pm
The following was originally published on WordCast and authored by Lorelle VanFossen. It is reprinted here as a reference guide. You’ve moved your WordPress installation from one server to another. You’ve changed domain names. You’ve moved images around on your server and now they don’t load. You’ve changed your WordPress installation and now images show […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: database, mysql, phpmyadmin, search and delete, search and replace, wordpress, wordpress code, wordpress database, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips |
If you haven’t been paying attention to one of the largest countries in the world is persecuting bloggers. I’ve written up a summary in the ClarkWP Magazine site produced by my Clark College WordPress students, “The New Blogger’s Law in Russia.” In December 2013, the Russian parliament passed a law to allow the blocking of […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: blogger persecution, blogger rights, bloggers law, fisa, freedom, freedom of speech, homeland security, internet laws, net neutrality, pipa, rights, russia, russia bloggers law, sopa, usa patriot act, web laws, web publishing, wordpress, WordPress News |
My mother emailed me and asked if WordPress was under attack. With all the news of last week’s attack of the Boston Marathon, the attacks on WordPress and other PHP-based web publishing sites was low on the priority list for myself and others, but this is something to take seriously. As we get back to […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom
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As I look back on the ten years of WordPress, there is a dark side to blogging. While many blamed WordPress for the evil, like guns, WordPress doesn’t cause evil, people cause evil. In fact, WordPress, Automattic, and the WordPress Community has fought longer and harder against the evil doers in the world than most […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom
| Tags: akismet, anniversary, autoblog, autobloggers, bitacle, comment spam, content theft, copyright, copyright violation, copyright violations, evil, hacked, hackers, hacking, history of wordpress, how to use wordpress, jonathan bailey, malware, plagiarism today, plugins, prevent comment spam, scrapers, security, security vulnerability, spam, splogs, vulnerability, wordpress, wordpress anniversary, wordpress help, wordpress history, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com |
September 19, 2012 – 11:18 am
Recently, DuckDuckGo has been turning up in my referrers list. Curious about the name, and thinking it was a spam site, DuckDuckGo needed investigation. Seems I’ve been missing out on what could be the major competition to Google as a search engine. Here is a quick summary of what I learned about DuckDuckGo. It is […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, Web Browsers, Web Wise
| Tags: analytics, anonymous, browser add-on, browser plugin, browsers, dnt, do not track, duckduckgo, filter bubble, google, google search, legal, mobile apps, pagerank, policies, privacy, privacy statement, privacy violation, search directory, search engine, security, seo, serp, tracking, web analytics, web browsers |
WordPress Anniversary: WordPress and Evil
As I look back on the ten years of WordPress, there is a dark side to blogging. While many blamed WordPress for the evil, like guns, WordPress doesn’t cause evil, people cause evil. In fact, WordPress, Automattic, and the WordPress Community has fought longer and harder against the evil doers in the world than most […]