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 […]
Do you have brilliantly intelligent and thoughtful commenters? I do. I often find something someone’s left in a post comment worth writing a blog post about and quoting. In this Blog Exercise we’ll look at how to link to comments on your site and how to properly reference them and cite the original author in […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips, Writing
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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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It’s time to check your trackbacks. In Blog Exercises: Trackbacks and Blog Exercises: Backlinks you learned about trackbacks, the automatic process of a site linking to yours and generating a comment-like notification to alert you of the link to your article, and helping your readers discover what others are saying about your article. In this […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips
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February 22, 2013 – 4:30 am
Who are you? What do you do? How do you let the world know who you are on your blog? We’ll dig into your About Page later. For now, this blog exercise is dedicated to updating your profile on your site. In my popular series, “Managing Multiple Bloggers in WordPress,” I covered more than you […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips, Writing
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January 24, 2013 – 4:21 am
We’ve all seen it. I call it Uncategorized Fever. By default, any post not categorized in WordPress is assigned to the Uncategorized category. The Uncategorized category appears in your Categories and Tags list or clouds. In tag clouds, the larger the word, the more posts with that tag. If Uncategorized is clearly visible in these […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: adding categories, blog exercise, blog exercises, categories, category, changing categories, default category, deleting categories, maintenance, organization, uncategorized, web writing, writing for the web |
January 23, 2013 – 10:02 pm
The following are classes and workshops offered by Lorelle VanFossen. Workshops and Courses Lorelle offers a wide range of WordPress, web publishing, web writing, social media, and blogging courses, along with some other related topics such as family history on the web, photography, and Scrivener. Here are some of the latest offerings. Introduction to WordPress: […]
January 23, 2013 – 8:55 pm
On August 16, 2005, Lorelle on WordPress became blog ID number 72 on the brand new WordPress.com. The first post was appropriately titled “Lorelle on WordPress” to introduce the site. Looking back, it’s amazing how true to form that I’ve kept the mission of this site all these years later as proposed in the first […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging, WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom
| Tags: about wordpress, anniversary, birthday, camera on the road, cameraontheroad, community, css, happy birthday wordpress, history, how to use wordpress, israel, Lorelle-on-WordPress, site history, stories, wordcamp, wordpress, wordpress anniversary, wordpress community, wordpress development, wordpress event, wordpress help, wordpress history, wordpress irc, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com |
January 9, 2013 – 6:09 am
In Blog Exercises: What is the Name of Your Site?, the Blog Exercise explored whether or not your site title was still appropriate for your site. Today’s exercise examines your tagline, the subtitle of your site. Not all site designs or WordPress Themes display the tagline, but it is there under the hood. Search engines […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises
| Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blog focus, blog purpose, blog tagline, content, focus, identity, purpose, site tagline, subject matter, subtitle, tagline |
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 17, 2012 – 12:42 pm
For the past few months, rumors were flying that WordPress was going to remove the Links/Blogroll feature of WordPress. As of August 2012, it is now gone from many WordPress.com. MacManx, Happiness Engineer at WordPress.com, recently stated: The Links section was removed from the core WordPress.org software, which means that it will probably be removed […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blogroll, blogroll pages, custom menus, edit blogroll, export blogroll, export links, google, how to use wordpress, import blogroll, import links, link categories, link lists, link manager, link recommendations, link resources, links, links pages, lists, managing links, menus, pagerank, pages, recommendations, resources, seo, sidebar widgets, widgets, wordpress, wordpress 3.5, wordpress help, wordpress links, WordPress News, wordpress pages, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
September 13, 2012 – 9:02 pm
Time to add a new category to WordPress? Have enough content within a specific topic and want to add it to your category lists? Changing your mind about a category name and wish to change it? Want to delete an entire category worth of posts because you don’t want to cover that topic anymore? Adding […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing
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August 24, 2012 – 6:48 pm
At the recent WordCamp Portland 2012, I was asked by several attendees to cover the basics of WordPress and we came up with What You Most Need to Know About WordPress. Here are the “notes” from that unconference presentation. The Difference Between Categories and Tags I hear this question at WordCamps, from readers, students, and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in blogging tips, WordCamps, WordPress, WordPress Events, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing
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WordPress 3.4 is out, named “Green” in honor of jazz guitarist and composer Grant Green. Green is a great nickname for this hot release of WordPress, bringing with it some excellent new features and improvements. As with all WordPress upgrades, it is recommended you backup your full WordPress site, database and all files, before upgrading. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: how to use wordpress, upgrade wordpress, wordpress, wordpress 3.4, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress trac, wordpress tutorials, wordpress updates, wordpress upgrades, wordpress versions |
A news story came out today that specifically served a client of mine. It was a national news story that could help them support their current clients with helpful information, and help convert potential clients with persuasive, current event information. Unfortunately, this client has been adamant against blogs, interactive websites, and social media. In my […]
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Posted in blogging tips, WordPress Tips, Writing
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Blog Exercises: How to Link to Comments
Do you have brilliantly intelligent and thoughtful commenters? I do. I often find something someone’s left in a post comment worth writing a blog post about and quoting. In this Blog Exercise we’ll look at how to link to comments on your site and how to properly reference them and cite the original author in […]