March 10, 2015 – 10:58 pm
To help me teach you WordPress from the inside out in this free online course, we’ve been focused on creating a five-part article series to learn the various WordPress content features and functionality. Each article offers you the opportunity to dive into how WordPress works right out of the box, focusing on the content and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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No matter what you do on the web, you will quote or cite someone, some place, or something. In today’s assignment and tutorial in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, I’m going to teach you how to quote and cite in WordPress, and save yourself from a copyright violation. By publishing content on your site, […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course last week, we covered: WordPress School: Video WordPress School: Links WordPress School: Gallery WordPress School: Sharing WordPress Links WordPress Lessons: All the HTML You Need to Know This week, the 6th in this year-long series, we continue with the Article Series on your test site. We will cover:
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School
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February 27, 2015 – 8:51 pm
Someday someone will write a book about the complexities of website addresses, permalinks, pretty permalinks, nonces, preview links, conditional links, and all of the other linky link links that WordPress uses. Until that authoritative text book is written, you are stuck with my weak explanations. As you move through the various assignments in In Lorelle’s […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
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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
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February 21, 2015 – 4:27 am
Over the years I’ve copied and saved HTML Character Entities that I use on a regular basis, and I thought I’d share my cheat sheet. These are important to me as a technical web publisher specializing in writing blogging and WordPress tutorials, so I’ve explained why and how I use them in the table below. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress Tips, Writing
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February 20, 2015 – 10:22 pm
In the assignment for Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course today and over the weekend, you are to work on preparing images for uploading to WordPress. You will be adding a variety of images to your WordPress test site such as images to accompany your posts and Pages, portraits, images for galleries, design elements, sidebar […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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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
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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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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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February 5, 2015 – 5:17 am
Throughout Lorelle’s WordPress School this year, I will be teaching you the words, jargon, and names of things, including their nick names. We’ll start with the word “WordPress.” WordPress WordPress is an Open Source web publishing, content management system platform. That’s a mouthful. Let’s break it down. Open Source Open Source is software for which […]
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
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January 31, 2015 – 3:30 pm
The following are the presentations notes for my workshop called “Blogging Your Passion” at Making it in Changing Times in 2015. In 2010 I was in Chicago for SOBCon, the Successful Online Business Conference, and I had an amazing encounter with a woman on the crowded downtown streets: …I was storming away from the last […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips
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January 16, 2015 – 1:29 pm
The following is a list of tutorials in Lorelle’s WordPress School. They are listed in chronological order, the sequence of the course. Don’t forget to join us on this site in the comment box discussions and on our WordPress School Google+ Community. Course Documents Lorelle’s WordPress School Description WordPress Publishing Checklist How to Give Feedback […]