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Blog Exercises: How Many Words in a Link?
How many words should you put into a link? Is there a rule? There isn’t a rule but there are good standards and practices. These state that two words should be the minimum, and only enough words to...
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The Brute-Force Password Attack on WordPress Sites
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...
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Blog Exercises: May Summary
Is is June already? Where did May go? If you joined us for these Blog Exercises in the month of May, we were a pretty busy lot. Time was spent on blog policies and security at the start of the month. I...
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Blog Exercises: Spell Checkup on Categories and Tags
Oh no! I was writing out a tag in WordPress and the auto-suggest feature popped up with a misspelled tag name! Yikes! Today’s blog exercise is to clean up your tag and category names to ensure you’ve...
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Blog Exercises: Trackbacks Come Again No More
The power of trackbacks is to track the discussion of articles on your site across the web. They are generated automatically by the post when it is published, sending a trackback response to your site....
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Blog Exercises: Comments on the Contact Page
Do you have comments on your Contact Page? It’s a simple question. Have you checked lately? A well-formed contact page features a welcoming introduction and encouragement to contact the site...
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Blog Exercises: Statistics and Web Analytics
If you have been following these Blog Exercises for the past six months, your site should be rocking. I asked you early on to define what you do clearly as it helped to clarify your site purpose and...
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Blog Exercises: Collect Your Quotes
I was sitting in a business conference listening to a speaker expound upon the many reasons why we must blog, and choked on my hot tea when I heard her say to the two hundred people in the audience,...
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Fall 2013 WordPress College Courses
Registration is now open for the two WordPress college courses I teach at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, and Portland Community College at Rock Creek in Beaverton, just west of Portland,...
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Blog Exercises: The Art of List Making
Today’s blog exercise is part two on how to make a list. In “Weekly Link Roundups” and “Making Lists” blog exercises I covered some basics of how to make a list. This blog exercise will take these...
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Blog Exercises: Patterns in the Stats
As we proceed through this year of blogging tips and exercises, we’ll talk more about statistics and web analytics to help you check in with yourself that you are on the right track. Today’s blog...
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Blog Exercises: The Domino Effect
I recently created a domino effect on one of my sites. The Domino Effect is based upon the traditional game of domino pieces stacked standing upright in rows, typically in a straight or curved path...
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Blog Exercises: Start Here Guides
Training for educators using online learning management systems for high schools and college recommend creating a “Start Here” page to guide the student through the process. If the process is...
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Blog Exercises: Choose an Appropriate Gravatar for Your Readers
All WordPress sites have Gravatars integrated into the core. Gravatars are Globally Recognized Avatars, images that represent you in blog posts comments, featured author images (integrated with...
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Blog Exercises: Site Models
In “WordPress Site Models” I describe the three main formats for a site layout. They are static, blog, and hybrid. Each site model works for a variety of content and presentation of that content,...
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Blog Exercises: Making Notifications and Alerts Work for You
In the blog exercise on eliminating noisy distractions from your computer, mobile phone, and other areas around your working environment, I wanted you to remove the things that interfere with your...
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WordPress For Writers: WordPress Author Sites
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...
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Find, Search, Replace, and Delete in the WordPress Database
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....
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What is Your Favorite Article on Lorelle on WordPress?
I’ve been asked to put together a best-of collection of Lorelle on WordPress articles in an ebook. Do you have a favorite? I’m looking for articles that you’ve bookmarked and returned back to over the...
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WordPress For Writers
I will be speaking this year at several workshops and conferences on the subject of “WordPress for Writers.” The workshop covers the basic elements of WordPress content structure and organization, then...
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