There are many ways to keep up with Lorelle on WordPress. Your options are: Lorelle on WordPress Feeds Lorelle on WordPress Email Subscriptions Social Bookmarking and Site Submission Sites and Services Feed on Lorelle I offer a variety of feeds for Lorelle on WordPress. You can subscribe to any of these feeds, for the entire […]
February 16, 2007 – 5:27 am
Asking someone to “subscribe” to your blog used to mean signing them up on an email list. On a regular basis you would send out an email from that list with news about your site or blog encouraging them to return for a visit. Today’s notion of subscribing to a blog goes way beyond an […]
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips
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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 […]
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Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom
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DownThemAll! Firefox Extension is another tool for your blogging toolbox. As a reminder, most power bloggers use Firefox or Chrome web browsers. Not just because they are “better” in the terms of meeting web standards, but also because of their powerful extendable features. Browser extensions, add-ons, or plugins allow you to extend the features and […]
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
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One of my favorite blogging tools – okay, tool I use for teaching, writing, and research – is Jing by Techsmith. It’s a must-have tool for bloggers and blogging. Jing is free. It allows capturing still images (screenshots), basic video, and animation, and allows you to share them on the web or save them to […]
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips
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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 […]
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, Writing
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“Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans.” In this ongoing series of Blog Exercises, I’ve covered much about the philosophy of blogging, and the challenges that come with blogging over time. One of the most common excuses to pause or stop blogging is “life happens.” Examples include: Blog Exercises: Self-Control […]
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging
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In this mini-series on adding policies to your WordPress site for Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, we’re going to look at the technical decisions you need to make on how to integrate these policies. The next follow-up articles will discuss how to write and format each of the four policies we’ll cover in this […]
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Posted in Blogging, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, Writing
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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 […]
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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 |
April 23, 2016 – 12:13 pm
In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course today we will explore the most important thing on the web: links. Specifically how WordPress automatically generates links on your site and how you can add these same links within the content and elsewhere on your WordPress site. So far in this course we’ve covered the topic of […]
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
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I will be teaching Words and Pictures: Photoblogging and Web Publishing for Photographers at Newspace Center for Photography for 4 Wednesdays, May 11 – June 1 from 6:30-9:30PM in Portland Oregon. This is an intimate teaching location and limited seating, so register now for your spot. Teaching WordPress at the client, college, and workshop level […]
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Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Classes, WordPress News, Writing
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In this Blog Exercise, it is time to start building a community around your blog. If you have one, it’s time to re-evaluate it to ensure you keep it. We will start with defining your community. Your blog topic should give you a clear indication about demographics of your online community, but it might not […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: audience, blog audience, blog community, blog exercises, community, community building, defining your audience, defining your readers, demographics, interactivity, site community, social media, web writing |
If you are following along with Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course you’ve been writing posts as part of the article series assignments and other assignments. Go to the front page of your site in the Twenty-Eleven WordPress Theme and take a look. Do you see long posts, one after another, and have to scroll, […]
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
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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 […]
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
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September 10, 2015 – 2:16 pm
Saturday, September 12, 2015, I will be teaching “Building a Website with WordPress” at the Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon, from noon to 5PM. I know most of you in the Portland area will be heading to OMSI for the Maker’s Fair, but do that in the morning and spend the afternoon with […]
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Posted in Classes, WordPress, WordPress News
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WordPress School: The Links in WordPress
In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course today we will explore the most important thing on the web: links. Specifically how WordPress automatically generates links on your site and how you can add these same links within the content and elsewhere on your WordPress site. So far in this course we’ve covered the topic of […]