February 24, 2015 – 5:15 pm
In this assignment in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we are going to explore the Text and Visual Editors in WordPress. WordPress features the two editors on all posts and Pages. The Visual Editor is the WYSIWYMG editor for writing content. This means it is the What You See Is What You Might Get […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: content styles, learn wordpress, text editor, visual editor, web writing, wordpress editors, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress publishing, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, writing on the web |
February 23, 2015 – 11:41 am
In the previous Lorelle’s WordPress School tutorial we covered preparing images for uploading to WordPress. Today’s lesson is on how to upload and embed the images in posts and Pages. As a reminder, the sequence and data required for uploading an image to WordPress is: Using the Media Uploader in a post or Page, the […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: adding images to wordpress, embedding images, images, learn wordpress, media, multimedia, photographs, uploading images, wordpress guide, wordpress help, wordpress images, wordpress media, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 17, 2015 – 6:26 am
Many people will tell you that the images you use in a published post are the most important visual elements on a web page. Don’t believe them. It is an HTML content tag that is often overlooked that is the most powerful visual element on a web page: the heading. At this point in Lorelle’s […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress School, Writing
| Tags: content, headings, html, learn wordpress, web writing, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, writing for the web |
February 16, 2015 – 7:20 am
Today in Lorelle’s WordPress School online course learning WordPress from the inside out, we are going to learn how to create lists in WordPress. A list is just that, a list of items. The list may contain a wide variety of information and be presented in many different ways. Let’s start with simple lists and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: bullet lists, html, html lists, learn wordpress, lists, numbered lists, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 12, 2015 – 6:39 am
We’ve just started Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course and you are welcome to join at any time. It is a slow-moving, at-you-own-pace course to learn WordPress from the inside out. As you go through the course, you will need to find more help and resources on WordPress, and this is your starting list. Below […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: learn wordpress, wordpress documentation, wordpress forums, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress references, wordpress resources, 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 […]
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 […]
January 12, 2015 – 4:13 am
The following is a brief summary of the workflow to publishing content in WordPress. Print this out to remind yourself of each step in the process. Consider this your checklist to review before publishing every post until you become accustomed to the process. This is your guide to the WordPress publishing process. This guideline is […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: how to blog, how to publish on wordpress, learn wordpress, using wordpress, wordpress, wordpress content, wordpress help, wordpress pages, wordpress posts, wordpress publishing, WordPress Tips |
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 |
September 9, 2014 – 1:11 pm
Reading “7 Things You Need to Know about SEO in 2014” from Compete Pulse, I was fascinating to read that “size matters:” Most blog posts range between 400 and 600 words, but the ideal length for highest ranking is actually around 1,500. Many still believe that a successful website is one that offers the information […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: blogging, blogging tips, email, how to write for the web, search engines, seo, social media, social media writing, texting, web writing, WordPress News, writing for the web |
November 9, 2013 – 4:41 am
Two questions on the same day triggered this blog exercise. I was asked by a student in my WordPress class recently what defined a “professional blog.” I told him it was one that met all the criteria for a well-designed, well-formed site that met web standards. This is a good definition, but lacked specifics. A […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Web Design, WordPress, Writing
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The long awaited WordPress 3.6 is out and ready for download for self-hosted WordPress users. Those on WordPress.com or managed WordPress installs, you should not have to do anything. WordPress.com has been using many of the new features of WordPress 3.6 already and is automatically updated. Managed WordPress hosts will advise you as to a […]
A milestone in personal rights seemed to have been achieved recently when US basketball player, Jason Collins declared publicly he was gay, hopefully setting an example for others that it is now “safe” to come out of the closet. The news in and around his announcement has me thinking about heroes, mentors, and risk-takers, those […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: audience, blog exercises, blogging tips, dreams, example, hero, heroes, inspiration, inspire, lead by example, leader, leadership, mentor, mission, motivate, motivation, purpose, reputation |
What are the articles that drive people to your site? What are the posts that help people understand and benefit most from what you publish on your site? What articles represent you as an authority on the subject? These are your reference articles. We all have them, the articles that explain who we are, what […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips, Writing
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