February 22, 2008 – 1:14 pm
Since creating my Weekly Digest, I’m forced to look through my blog stats on a regular basis, something I’ve been loath to do for many years. Most of it doesn’t interest me as I’ve been doing this too long to worry over the micro-statistics, but I’ve been watching an interesting trend that has now turned […]
August 18, 2017 – 4:02 am
WordPress shortcodes are abbreviated code placed into the WordPress Visual or Text Editors that expands into a larger code structure. As we continue with Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, it’s time to explore the basics of WordPress shortcodes. The following is the embed code for a Google Map, pointing to one of my favorite […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: learn wordpress, shortcodes, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress shortcodes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
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 |
As we round up the mini-series on HTML and CSS basics as part of the ongoing Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, and to prepare you for working with WordPress Themes, it is important to understand how to find the right design element to change on a website, specifically within a WordPress Theme. We’ve been […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes
| Tags: child themes, css, css classes, css identifiers, css positioning, css specificity, html, learn wordpress, stylesheets, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we’ve been exploring HTML and CSS basics to help you prepare for working with WordPress Themes coming soon. The information in these tutorials is essential for the WordPress user to learn for the most simple of tasks, from controlling how content displays in your posts to adding HTML […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: css, css position, css positioning, html, layout, learn wordpress, web page layout, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
In the next part of this mini-series for Lorelle’s WordPress School, we’re moving deeper into understanding how CSS works with HTML. These easy tutorials will give you the basic tools you need to learn to customize your WordPress site and work on WordPress Themes. We will be working more on the test HTML file and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes
| Tags: css, css styles, embedded css styles, html, html and css, html tags, inline css styles, learn wordpress, styles, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
In this mini-series for Lorelle’s WordPress School , we’re learning about HTML basics. I shared a little history and information to help you get started and gave you an HTML file that you will use in this tutorial. In the next tutorial, I covered some very basic HTML elements found in the test HTML file. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: blockquotes, call-to-action, css, html, html series, html tags, inline css, inline html styles, learn css, learn html, learn wordpress, pull-quotes, quotes, styling wordpress.com posts, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
Search is used in WordPress for many different purposes as you prepare, develop, implement, and launch your website, and as you continue to maintain and publish on the site. This tutorial will help you understand how to search within a web page with the web browser, search within a WordPress site, and provide helpful tips […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: browsers, find, google search, how to search, learn wordpress, search, search operators, searching tips, web browser, web browsers, web search, web searching tips, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
March 23, 2015 – 10:04 am
A student trying to explain how WordPress Themes worked to another student used the following metaphor: Think of WordPress Themes like a poker hand. They are all cards but the value of the playing hand changes with each deal. She was right. There are 52 cards in a deck, four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades), […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Themes
| Tags: conditionals, front end view, front view, learn wordpress, pageviews, website view, wordpress conditionals, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress pageviews, wordpress school, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
Press Publish is a one-day conference in Portland, Oregon, and Phoenix, Arizona, described as “featuring inspiring WordPress bloggers and the people behind WordPress.com. I’d rename it to “Rocking Your World with Inspired Authors and Web Publishers on WordPress in the Pacific Northwest!” I will be attending the Portland event on March 28, 2015, and the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News
| Tags: authors, bloggers, conferences, events, press publish, publishers, wordpress events, WordPress News, wordpress special events, writers |
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 |
February 28, 2015 – 7:23 pm
In the last tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School I talked about WordPress addresses and URLs. In this tutorial, I want to cover what happens when a post or Page title is forgotten and left blank, and how that impacts the web page address. This discussion includes your first glance at the WordPress database. We all […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: canonical urls, empty title, forgot post title, learn wordpress, no title, page slug, permalink, post slug, post title, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 2, 2015 – 4:55 am
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins A website is an intangible, a virtual nothing in which we create something tangible to human perception. When it boils right down to it, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little created nothing with WordPress. WordPress isn’t a physical object you can […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: learn wordpress, site content, site information, site master plan, site organization, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress tutorials, worksheets |
January 16, 2015 – 2:08 pm
DISCOUNT: Lorelle is offering her popular site reviews for 50% off during 2015 as part of her WordPress School year-long project teaching the basics of WordPress. The discount code is found in the introduction materials. Lorelle VanFossen offers three levels of site reviews, specifically for WordPress sites. The prices are the starting prices for the […]
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 |