February 19, 2015 – 5:49 am
One of the greatest challenges I have in teaching WordPress to clients, students, and in workshops and online courses like Lorelle’s WordPress School is the fact that WordPress keeps changing the interface and the names of the various interface bits and pieces. They are doing it again on WordPress.com with a “new and improved” interface […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: admin, admin bar, administration screens, backend, interface, learn wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress options, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 18, 2015 – 6:51 am
In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we are going to take a break from the article series and work on your next Page in WordPress. Save the second post in the article series as draft. We’ll come back to it. As a reminder, WordPress Pages are content elements that exist outside of the reverse […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: contact, contact forms, contact page, forms, learn wordpress, pages, shortcodes, 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 10, 2015 – 6:09 am
In the last lesson in this WordPress School course, you were to fill in the blanks of your WordPress site profile on your test site. In this lesson, you are to create your Gravatar. Gravatar is a “Globally Recognized Avatar.” Aside from the popular movie, most are familiar with avatars, the images used to represent […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
| Tags: avatar, gravatar, learn wordpress, my profile, online identity, online image, profile, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, wordpress tutorials |
January 24, 2015 – 4:15 am
I was one of the first asked to write and publish a text book on WordPress. I worked with the BIG NAME text book publishing company for months to create a structure and outline for WordPress users. As a long-time WordPress user, WordPress Codex contributor and editor, WordPress support forums volunteer, developer, designer, and WordPress […]
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 |
My WordPress I course at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, just across the river from Portland, Oregon, is open for registration for Summer Quarter 2014. The course begins July 7, 2014, on Mondays and Wednesdays at 6:30-9:30PM. This is a five credit hour course, 50 hours of all WordPress basics in 8 weeks. The size […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Classes, WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News
| Tags: clark college, classes, education, how to use wordpress, learn wordpress, wordpress, wordpress basics, wordpress class, wordpress classes, WordPress News |
In this part of my series on WordPress For Writers, I’ll cover the basic things to consider when using WordPress on site promoting the work of writers and authors. For more on the subject, see other articles in the WordPress for Writers and Authors series. This article assumes you have some basic familiarity with WordPress […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: author sites, author websites, web writing, wordpress, wordpress for authors, wordpress for writers, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, writer sites, writer websites, Writing, writing for the web |
Are your comments closed? Are they set to moderation? Are your comments wide open for all without question or challenge? Are you comments open for business? In “You Must Be Logged In To Comment” I wrote: Why do people turn off open, unregistered comments to require people to login in order to comment? I’m not […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging
| Tags: akismet, blog comments, blog exercises, blog writing, blogging tips, comment box, comment moderation, comment spam, comments, comments are closed, how to blog, how to comment, interaction, interactivity, moderation, spam, turn off comments, Writing |
It’s hard to believe that I’ve learned much from comment spammers over the years. I’ve learned that they are among the most hated folks in the world, yet you have to respect them as well. As I look back on ten years of blogging with WordPress on this 10th Anniversary year, I realized that comment […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: akismet, blogging tips, comment spam, comment spam prevention, comments, endurance, evil, hacked, hacking, how to blog, persistence, security, security vulnerability, spam, spammers, vulnerability |
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
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December 2, 2012 – 3:36 pm
WordPress.com users were greeted with a new Media Manager over the weekend. This is the new media uploader coming in WordPress 3.5 when it releases December 5, 2012. For most of us, this is a long-awaited, dream come true. The clunky WordPress Image Uploader is gone, replaced with one more visual and easy-to-use. The announcement […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: audio, image management, images, mangaing images, media, media manger, media uploader, multimedia, playlist editor, video, wordpress, wordpress images, wordpress media, wordpress media manager, WordPress News, wordpress playlist, WordPress Tips, wordpress upgrade, wordpress uypdate |
September 27, 2012 – 2:17 pm
In “How Many WordPress Plugins Should You Install on Your Site?” WPBeginner asks a question I bring up in my workshops, training programs, and college courses: How many WordPress Plugins are too many. The article brings up some valid points worth considering when choosing WordPress Plugins. Are WordPress Plugins a security risk? How would you […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: choosing a plugin, how to use wordpress, installing a plugin, plugin performance, plugin security, plugins, site performance, themes, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
Blog Exercises: Are Your Comments Open for Business?
Are your comments closed? Are they set to moderation? Are your comments wide open for all without question or challenge? Are you comments open for business? In “You Must Be Logged In To Comment” I wrote: Why do people turn off open, unregistered comments to require people to login in order to comment? I’m not […]