Taking Your Camera on the Road

I apologize in advance for the nightmare conditions of Taking Your Camera on the Road. I'm in the middle of an upgrade from hell with the latest version of WordPress.
Every time I turn around, I'm finding more problems. If you spot any problems, errors, or odd things, please let me know so I can fix [...]

As a professional writer, writing on a wide variety of topics, I posted this article and list of the my favorite articles that I wrote in 2005 on my other website, Lorelle on WordPress, and I thought I'd share it here. But before I do, I wanted to say that of the writing I've done [...]

As one of the many volunteers helping give back to the WordPress Community and helping with the WordPress Codex and WordPress Support Forum, I join the chorus of those who recommend to all WordPress users: Search First.

There is now an amazing assortment of sites and resources for WordPress users to get the information they need to the questions they have and the help they need. And when it comes to getting help with WordPress, the two above resources are top of the list, the Codex and the Forum.

Now, with the amazing coding skills and talent of two friends of mine, Andrew (also known as Jalenack) and Owen (also known as Ringmaster), searching the WordPress Codex and Forum is easier than ever. They developed the Codex Search Plugin.

I want to seriously talk to you about the responsibilities of hosting comments on your website. It's fun and it's a great thrill to get a response to something you've written, but it also has responsibilities, both by you and the comment poster. We can't control the comment poster, but we can control our response to the comment. That is our responsibility as a website owner and/or administrator.

Dealing with comments means identifying and dealing with unwanted spam such as comment spam or inappropriate or off-topic comments. You may, or may not, have a responsibility to respond to comments, so it may add more to your site's workload. Then there is the debate of what comments should stay or be removed dependent upon your site's policies and standards. There are a lot of questions to be asked and answered, and with all things, it begins with a plan.

WordPress is celebrating blog security and protection with WordPress Backup Week July 23-30.
WordPress, one of the most popular blogging and website management tools, is sponsoring WordPress Backup Week July 23-30. Step-by-step backup instructions will be available in the online manual, the WordPress Codex, and online in the WordPress Support Forum to help you through the [...]

I talk a lot about the powerful features and ability to customize WordPress on our site. One of the behind the scenes power WordPress "tricks", if you will, featured on our site is found on our site's front page. It involves some queries that ask several rather uniquely styled questions, and generates what you see based upon the answers from the database. Let me explain this better.

When you view the "home" page or front page of our site, you are greeted with a combination of excerpts or full short posts. On the left side of each post is a green bar. Each post features the title and post categories. Each post also features the excerpt summary, or first paragraph or two of the post, or the full length short post.

In this article, we share with you the tips and techniques we use with the powerful WordPress Loop and queries to generate this unique look on the front page of our site.

I've been trying to create a list of the various feeds available on my site. I created such a list but when my feed reader scans the page for feeds, it lists every single one with the title of my site. This would be fine, but I wanted the title to reflect the names [...]

There are a lot of WordPress Plugins I can't live without. And I love talking about them, because the more I talk about them, the more people will learn about how awesome WordPress plugins are, and maybe, just maybe, the WordPress developers will see how useful they are and put them into the core code. [...]