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WordPress Featured in Wall Street Journal

November 1, 2012 – 10:37 am

Matt Mullenweg of Automattic, WordPress.com, the self-hosted version of WordPress, was featured today on the Wall Street Journal Business talking about the fact that WordPress now supports 14% of all websites in the world, approximately 1 in 6 globally. Matt talked about the future of WordPress and made these three points. WordPress as a CMS: […]

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Adding, Deleting, and Changing a WordPress Category

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 […]

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WordPress 3.1 Beta Unleashed on WordPress.com

November 19, 2010 – 11:53 am

WordPress.com has just released WordPress 3.1 Beta on more than 15 million blogs across the network. WordPress has used WordPress.com as their proving ground since the beginning, relying upon the feedback of the many bloggers from around the world, all using different types of computer hardware, browser types, operating systems, and blog setups to test […]

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Help and Tips for Windows Live Spaces Bloggers: Modules, Albums, Widgets, and Lists

September 28, 2010 – 6:54 pm

I’ve been reading about a lot of the challenges facing Windows Live Spaces bloggers transitioning to WordPress.com. I feel for you all. You’ve done great work on your Windows Live Spaces blogs and now Microsoft is ending the program. Fortunately, instead of just shutting things down, they are giving bloggers six months to change and […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips | Tags: how to use wordpress, lists, live spaces, live spaces designs, live spaces lists, live spaces modules, lives spaces albums, migrating from live spaces to wordpress, modules, windows live, windows live spaces, windows spaces, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom | Comments (23)

Welcome Windows Live Spaces Bloggers to WordPress.com

September 27, 2010 – 6:38 pm

I just posted news on WordCast about the WordPress.com and Microsoft Windows Live Spaces migration which brings Windows Live Spaces bloggers to WordPress.com. See Updated News Below I’m thrilled about this huge endeavor, and offer up my blog tips to Windows Live Spaces bloggers. I’m also excited about what this means for the WordPress Community. The number tossed […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom | Tags: how to use wordpress, windows, windows live, windows live spaces, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom | Comments (40)

Blog Struggles: SOBCon, Idea Whelmed, and Tell It To the Telephone Pole

August 13, 2010 – 11:25 am

A few people were concerned when I started my first Blog Struggles Diary recommending that I not blog every day thus changing the whole tone of my site. This confused me as I thought this was what my site was about. I had to take some time to think about that…then life and work interfered, […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Struggles, Blogging | Tags: blog stories, blog struggles, blog thoughts, blogging stories, diary, hacked, hacking, how to blog, how to use wordpress, journal, Liz Strauss, publish, publishing, security, security vulnerability, sobcon, sobcon2010, telephone pole, time waster, vulnerability, web host, web publishing, wordpress help, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, WordPressDotCom, Writing | Comments (8)

New P2 Prologue Theme on WordPress.com

March 12, 2009 – 6:29 pm

P2: The New Prologue is out for WordPress.com bloggers to play with. Based upon the Prologue WordPress Theme that has been called Twitter-Meets-Blog, this is a form of social networking microblogging WordPress Theme. The announcement offers more information and a video, but this is not a WordPress Theme for everyone. It is designed for multiple […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom | Tags: how to use wordpress, p2, prologue, themes, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom | Comments (25)

WordPress.com Bloggers Get New Support and Help Site

December 27, 2008 – 2:54 pm

WordPress.com bloggers now have a new resource for help: the WordPress Help Pages. Heather of the WordPress.com Support Team announced the new WordPress.com support. It features a knowledge-based style with overviews features and tasks. I’ve covered a lot of tips and techniques for using WordPress.com, and here are some highlights, including a lot of features […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPressDotCom | Tags: how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, wordpress.com news, wordpress.com tips, WordPressDotCom, wordpressdotcom news | Comments (4)

How to Add MyFreeCopyright To Your WordPress Blog

October 15, 2008 – 2:16 pm

404 Tech Support has just published step-by-step instructions on how to addMyFreeCopyright.com to your WordPress.com or WordPress blog. The directions are specific to WordPress.com, but will work for any blog or website. It’s also a prime example of how to use the WordPress Widget to add text to your sidebar. The code used in the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom, Writing | Tags: copyright, how to use wordpress, myfreecopyright, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom | Comments (20)

WordPress.com Blog Bling: Show Off Your Blog Bling

February 6, 2007 – 3:00 am

I’ve spent the last week covering how to blog bling your WordPress.com blog in the form of graphics and photographs, lines and smilies, fonts, blockquotes, social bookmark links, blogroll bling and sidebar widgets, podcasts, audio, and video, signatures, signoffs, and writing code. Now it is your turn to show off. Here is a list of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: blog bling, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom | Comments (28)

Adding Video and Podcasting Bling to Your WordPress.com Blogs

February 5, 2007 – 2:00 am

We’ve mostly focused on static visual things you can do to dress up your WordPress.com with Blog Bling. Let’s take a look at how to add video, podcasting, audio files, and more to your WordPress.com blogs. There are videos and podcast files found around the web that you can provide access to via your WordPress […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: 30 days of wordpress plugins, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress embeds, wordpress help, wordpress multimedia, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress video, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom, youtube, youtube videos | Comments (29)

WordPress.com Blog Bling: Signatures and Writing Code

February 4, 2007 – 2:38 am

Wow! If you wanted some WordPress.com blog bling bling, we’ve covered a lot, haven’t we? I’ve shown you how to add graphics and photographs and video, lines and smilies, fonts, blockquotes, social bookmark links, blogroll bling and sidebar widgets, and…have I forgotten anything? Ah, yes. How to display code bling in your WordPress.com blogs, and […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: blog bling, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom | Comments (51)

WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blogroll and Sidebar Bling

February 3, 2007 – 3:11 am

I’ve covered adding blog bling to your WordPress.com blog in the form of graphics and photographs, lines and smilies, fonts, blockquotes, social bookmark links. Now it’s time to add some blog bling to your WordPress.com blogroll and sidebar. The sidebar area of your blog is typically the canvas for the most blog bling. Sidebar blog […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: blog bling, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom | Comments (26)

WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blockquotes and Quotes

February 2, 2007 – 3:01 am

Have you had enough blog bling? No? This part of the blog bling series covers how to add emphasis to your blockquotes and quotes in your WordPress.com blogs. So far, the WordPress.com Blog Bling series has covered adding graphic images, lines and smilies, social bookmarking links, and font bling. The techniques covered in this section […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: blog bling, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom | Comments (44)

WordPress.com Blog Bling: Fun Font Bling

February 1, 2007 – 3:54 am

Why not dress up your WordPress.com blog with some font bling? So far on this series on WordPress.com Blog Bling, I’ve covered how to using images, logos, and badges to decorate your WordPress.com blog, how to add horizontal and vertical lines and smilies, and Social Bookmarking Submit Links on WordPress Blogs, including WordPress.com blogs. In […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: blog bling, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom | Comments (23)