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WordPress School: What’s the Difference Between the Display Posts and Archive Shortcodes

August 28, 2017 – 3:28 am

In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, we’ve been exploring shortcodes. In this tutorial, let’s take a look at two shortcodes that appear to be the same on the surface. WordPress has long had the ability to generate a list of posts in a Page or post with a bit of code in the archives() […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: archives, archives shortcode, display posts, display posts shortcode, post lists, shortcodes, wordpress, wordpress school, wordpress shortcodes, wordpress techniques, WordPress Tips | Comments (5)

WordPress School: Shortcodes

August 18, 2017 – 4:02 am

WordPress shortcodes are abbreviated code placed into the WordPress Visual or Text Editors that expands into a larger code structure. As we continue with Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, it’s time to explore the basics of WordPress shortcodes. The following is the embed code for a Google Map, pointing to one of my favorite […]

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How to Avoid the New WordPress.com Interface

August 10, 2017 – 10:13 am

For the past three to four years, WordPress.com users have been “experimenting” with the what is known as the “new” WordPress.com interface. A drag-and-drop-meets-wysiwymg interface (What You See is What You MIGHT Get), it is designed to make interaction with WordPress easier. I’m still waiting. What it continues to do is make my students and […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: browser, browser redirects, browser scripts, edit post, edit post interface, greasemonkey, redirects, wordpress, WordPress classic interface, wordpress interface, WordPress Tips, wp-admin | Comments (12)

Blame WordPress For the World’s Problems

August 11, 2016 – 12:12 pm

Let’s call this person “wise” using air quotes to give you a description of where they come from in life. This “wise” person confronted to me at a public event to announce that WordPress was evil and must be destroyed. “After all,” he informed me soundly. “While WordPress says it supports freedom of speech, it […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom | Tags: abuse, censorship, copyright, copyright violation, freedom of speech, the business of wordpress, threats, wordpress, WordPress News | Comments (24)

WordPress School: Copyright Policy

May 10, 2016 – 12:55 pm

We’ve started our mini-series on adding policies to your WordPress site with some basic information and details on how to organize and structure policies on your site. It’s time to evaluate the five different policies featured on almost all websites regardless of topic or goals in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. Remember, we add […]

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WordPress School: Integrating Policies

April 28, 2016 – 4:13 am

In this mini-series on adding policies to your WordPress site for Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, we’re going to look at the technical decisions you need to make on how to integrate these policies. The next follow-up articles will discuss how to write and format each of the four policies we’ll cover in this […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: content navigation, content organization, jump links, learn wordpress, legal, menus, navigation, pages, policies, site structure, widgets, wordpress, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress pages, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials | Comments (4)

WordPress School: Adding Policies

April 26, 2016 – 2:32 pm

It’s time to talk about policies in Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. While every website, personal or professional, requires some policies, learning how to publish policies on a WordPress site involves learning about WordPress Pages as a content type, customizing the navigation menu, using jump links, creating lists, customizing links in Widgets, and a […]

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WordPress School: The Links in WordPress

April 23, 2016 – 12:13 pm

In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course today we will explore the most important thing on the web: links. Specifically how WordPress automatically generates links on your site and how you can add these same links within the content and elsewhere on your WordPress site. So far in this course we’ve covered the topic of […]

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WordPress School: Excerpts

March 10, 2016 – 6:19 am

If you are following along with Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course you’ve been writing posts as part of the article series assignments and other assignments. Go to the front page of your site in the Twenty-Eleven WordPress Theme and take a look. Do you see long posts, one after another, and have to scroll, […]

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WordPress and Web Writing Classes at Newspace Center for Photography

March 9, 2016 – 9:29 am

I’ve been teaching at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon, for a year and it is one of the most fun programs and educational institutions I’ve worked with in a long time. Newspace Center for Photography is more than a gallery, though it is an outstanding gallery with powerful exhibits often based upon Pacific […]

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WordPress School: HTML and CSS References and Resources

April 22, 2015 – 12:17 pm

In “9 Truths That Computer Programmers Know That Most People Don’t” by Macleod Sawyer, he quotes Ben Cherry and adds the following after: “Under the hood, most critical software you use every day (like Mac OS X, or Facebook) contains a terrifying number of hacks and shortcuts that happen to barely fit together into a […]

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WordPress School: HTML and CSS – Identifying IDs and Classes

April 21, 2015 – 5:59 pm

As we round up the mini-series on HTML and CSS basics as part of the ongoing Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course, and to prepare you for working with WordPress Themes, it is important to understand how to find the right design element to change on a website, specifically within a WordPress Theme. We’ve been […]

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WordPress School: HTML and CSS Positioning

April 20, 2015 – 5:33 am

In Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we’ve been exploring HTML and CSS basics to help you prepare for working with WordPress Themes coming soon. The information in these tutorials is essential for the WordPress user to learn for the most simple of tasks, from controlling how content displays in your posts to adding HTML […]

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WordPress School: HTML and CSS Embedded Styles

April 18, 2015 – 9:39 am

In the next part of this mini-series for Lorelle’s WordPress School, we’re moving deeper into understanding how CSS works with HTML. These easy tutorials will give you the basic tools you need to learn to customize your WordPress site and work on WordPress Themes. We will be working more on the test HTML file and […]

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WordPress School: HTML Inline Styles

April 17, 2015 – 5:08 am

In this mini-series for Lorelle’s WordPress School , we’re learning about HTML basics. I shared a little history and information to help you get started and gave you an HTML file that you will use in this tutorial. In the next tutorial, I covered some very basic HTML elements found in the test HTML file. […]

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