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WordPress Course at PCC-Rock Creek in Beaverton

March 6, 2013 – 5:44 am

I will be teaching a WordPress Introduction college course at Portland Community College in Beaverton, just west of Portland, Oregon, starting April 3 – June 12, 2013. The course is a hybrid online course meetings Wednesdays from 6-9PM with a minimum of two hours online per week. Called “CMS Website Creation: WordPress,” this 3 credit […]

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Happy Anniversary WordPress: The Beginnings

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 […]

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WordPress Theme Panel at WebVisions 2012

April 30, 2012 – 9:22 am

Webvisions is in Portland, Oregon, May 16-18, 2012, and I’ll be there presenting “Crank WordPress to 11” featuring four top WordPress designers and developers showcasing how they have pushed WordPress beyond traditional limits and taking your questions about how they do it and if WordPress can take it. Friday, May 18, at 1:30PM, I’ll be […]

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201 WordPress Books

April 26, 2012 – 12:01 pm

As part of my project to bring WordPress into colleges nationally, I did a quick survey of how many books have been published about WordPress. I was asked by several major publishers to publish the first book in English on WordPress but had to decline due to my traveling schedule and work load, so it’s […]

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Help Needed with WebVisions WordPress Theme Developers Panel

March 29, 2012 – 5:19 pm

Webvisions is in Portland, Oregon, May 16-18, 2012, and I’ll be there again this year leading an awesome panel of WordPress Theme designers and developers, and I need your help. For over eleven years, Webvisions has been the go to conference for exploring the future of design, content creation, user experience, and business strategies on […]

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WordPress Stats and Numbers: Breaking Their Own Records

March 29, 2012 – 2:02 pm

Working on developing a core of WordPress classes for Clark College and preparing for the next “Introduction to WordPress” college course in a couple weeks, I’ve put together some statistics on WordPress you might find helpful – and stunning. WordPress continues to break records set by others, but more often lately, break records set by […]

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Managing Multiple Authors: Managing Writers in a Multiple Author Blog

August 18, 2011 – 4:31 pm

In this series on managing multiple bloggers in WordPress, I want to now focus on the content, specifically managing the editorial voice and purpose of a site with multiple bloggers. There is a huge caveat to this topic. Every blog is unique, as are all the voices within it. It is often that uniqueness that […]

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Testers Needed for the Plugin Beta Tester WordPress Plugin

August 17, 2011 – 2:18 pm

Scott Kingsley Clark of the popular Pods WordPress Plugin and founder of SKC Development, is a leading expert in WordPress Plugins. Like many, he’s been working hard to bring some standards and standardization to WordPress Plugins. Working with Mitcho of Yet Another Related Posts Plugin fame, and the WordPress development team, Scott is revitalizing the […]

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Managing Multiple Authors: Customizing the Author Bio Box

June 3, 2011 – 6:38 pm

In this series on managing multiple bloggers in WordPress, I’ve covered how to showcase the authors within the WordPress Theme design, talked about how to manage author content within WordPress to help you see all the ways you can promote your authors within the design and content management system, and started showing you code and […]

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Managing Multiple Authors: Customizing the WordPress Author Page

May 24, 2011 – 8:21 pm

We’ve been covering a lot of different suggestions for increasing the exposure of a contributor in a multiple author blog, and in this article, I want to focus specifically on one of the most important page on a WordPress site to an author, the author page. The author page in WordPress is generated automatically, featuring […]

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Managing Multiple Bloggers: Author Content Management on WordPress

May 23, 2011 – 2:55 pm

In the last article I talked about what’s most important to the author and their readers, covering recognition when it comes to researching and developing a website design to accommodate multiple bloggers. In this article, I want to cover the research you need to consider when it comes to content management, which represents the “Aggregation” […]

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Managing Multiple Authors: Showcasing the Authors

May 23, 2011 – 10:02 am

I’m speaking at WebVisions on “Managing Multiple Bloggers in WordPress” on Thursday, May 26, 2011, at 11:30AM in Portland, Oregon. The following is part of a series of articles on the topic and notes from my presentation. Growing up with print media, my family couldn’t get enough of Gary Larson’s The Far Side cartoon strip […]

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How to Manage Multiple Bloggers on WordPress

May 21, 2011 – 8:22 am

I’m speaking at WebVisions on “Managing Multiple Bloggers in WordPress” on Thursday, May 26, 2011, at 11:30AM in Portland, Oregon. The following is part of a series of articles on the topic and notes from my presentation. Crap! When it comes to managing multiple bloggers, crap is a word – hell, a sentence – used […]

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WebVisions: How to Manage Multiple Bloggers in WordPress

May 20, 2011 – 3:47 pm

I’m very honored to be a part of WebVisions this year, May 25-27, 2011, in Portland, Oregon. If you don’t have tickets, register now as this event is hugely popular and there is limited space for many of the various workshops and sessions. My session is called C.R.A.P. Happens: WordPress and the Art of Managing […]

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Lorelle Interviews WordPress Rock Star Andrew Nacin at WordCamp Developers

April 29, 2011 – 10:33 am

The secret is now out. I’m putting on the gloves and taking on Andrew Nacin at WordCamp Developers in Vancouver, BC, on May 5, 2011. As described in the announcement on the WordCamp Developers site, I’m going to put Andrew Nacin, the new rock star of core WordPress development through a ringer to let the […]

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