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 |
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 […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: blogging tips, blogging tools, browsers, chrome, download files, download images, download pictures, download web pages, downloading, downthemall, firefox, firefox add-ons, save web pages, web tools, web writing, Writing |
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 […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips
| Tags: blogging resources, blogging tips, blogging tools, capture video, free blogging tools, graphics, how to blog, images, jing, media, screen capture, screencast, screenshot capture, techsmith, video, video capture |
I’ve been teaching at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon, for a year and it is one of the most fun programs and educational institutions I’ve worked with in a long time. Newspace Center for Photography is more than a gallery, though it is an outstanding gallery with powerful exhibits often based upon Pacific […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Classes, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: classes, education, learn wordpress, newspace, newspace photography, newspace photography center, photoblogging, portland, training, wordpress, wordpress classes, WordPress News, writing for the web, writing for the web classes |
In the last tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course covering the web browser, your gateway to the web and WordPress, we covered bookmarks and how to save a web page for later access and reading. In this tutorial, we take bookmarks a little further by exploring browser bookmarklets and user scripts, small but […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: bookmarks, browser bookmarks, browser tips, browser user scripts, browsers, learn wordpress, read later, read web pages offline, save bookmarks, save web page, save web page for reference, save web page to read later, send to, sendto, user scripts, userscripts, web browser, web browser tips, web browsers, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
In my WordPress college courses, we make it a habit to have a minimum of four tabs open in the web browser before class starts, ready to start jumping into WordPress. I equate this to having my notebook of paper and pen ready to go when my teachers started teaching in school. The three tabs […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: browser shortcuts, browser tabs, keyboard shortcuts, learn wordpress, mouse shortcuts, shortcuts, web browser, web browser tabs, web browser tips, web browsers, 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 |
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 […]
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 |
The following are the workshop notes for my popular workshop on “Speed Blogging.” The workshop is designed to teach how to take charge of your website and keep the content flowing with enthusiasm over the long term by learning the shortcuts, tips, and techniques to speed up the process of blogging, allowing your blog to […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, Writing
| Tags: automation, blogging, blogging tips, browser, evernote, feeds, outsourcing, speed blogging, text editor, web browser, web writing, wordpress, WordPress News, workshops, writing for the web |
WP Tavern reported recently that WordPress Developers are organizing a community initiative to standardize common post types, taxonomies and meta data. Led by Justin Tadlock, popular WordPress developer and author of Professional WordPress Plugin Development, the goals of the community project are to name these common parts of WordPress to create a more stable and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes
| Tags: code standards, custom post types, taxonomies, wordpress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, wordpress post types, wordpress standards, WordPress Themes |
November 13, 2013 – 5:18 pm
The recent major desktop computer crash has left me reeling. I thought I had all my data backed up. For the most part, I did. What I didn’t have backed up was my programs. Getting back up to speed fast, I’ve had to prioritize the programs I had download and install. Yes, download. Who gets […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips
| Tags: audio, backup, blogging software, blogging tools, emergency backup, graphics, graphics software, images, operating system, restore, system backup, system restore, video |
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
| Tags: admin, bad behavior, brute force, brute force attack, evil, hacked, hacking, how to use wordpress, login, passwords, protect your site, registration, security, security vulnerability, servers, site security, spam, vulnerability, web hosting services, web hosts, wordpress, wordpress brute force attack, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress passwords, wordpress security, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com |
I’d like to introduce you to the work horse I use for speed blogging. It’s a web browser add-on for Firefox called CoLT. It stands for Copy Link Text. I will be offering a variety of web browser tips and tools to make blogging faster and easier throughout these Blog Exercises, and of all of […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog exercises, blogging tips, colt, firefox, firefox add-on, firefox extension, firefox tips, html, productivity, speed blogging, web browser, web browser tips, wordpress, WordPress Tips, Writing, writing for the web, writing tips |
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 |
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 […]