Lorelle VanFossen
Executive Editor, WordCast and Disruptive Thinking Coordinator, Bitwire Mediahttp://lorelle.wordpress.com
Around the WordPress Community: Design, Thesis Hooks and Filters, Comments, and Design Mistakes
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 17 2010 at 4:21 am | No Comments »
This week’s trip around the WordPress Community digs more into web design with a collection of resources and tips from around the WordPress Community. We found some great tips on WordPress Theme design for navigation, custom post types, Thesis Theme hooks and filters, comments, and a few reminders on those common pesky design mistakes we all make.
Travel Oregon: An Example in Creating Loyal Customers
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 16 2010 at 4:03 am | No Comments »
The Travel Oregon official tourism site provides a great lesson platform for design, interaction, and social media, and Lorelle shares her experience and lessons learned.
Firefox Next Release to Fix Flash Crashes
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 10 2010 at 7:57 am | No Comments »
The ongoing issues with Firefox crashing due to confllicts and bugs in the Flash Plugin are about to be history as Mozilla introduces new improvements. Bloggers can rejoice as the power browser is making a comeback.
Around the WordPress Community: CSS3 Tips and Techniques
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 10 2010 at 4:19 am | No Comments »
In this week’s Around the WordPress Community, we look at CSS3 and offer some tips and techniques and examples of what could be coming to a WordPress Theme near you, or that you need to keep in mind as you design or upgrade your next WordPress Theme. You will want to bookmark many of these!
Future of Google Wave in New API Competition?
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 9 2010 at 2:03 pm | 1 Comment »
A new Google Wave API competition might heat up interest again in the collaborative documentation program. What would you like to see Google Wave do beyond it’s current functionality?
Commit: The Story of Writing a WordPress Patch | aaron.jorb.in
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 6 2010 at 4:30 am | 2 Comments »
Ever wonder what it really takes to report a bug in WordPress you know you have the solution to, and how long it takes to make the change permanent in the WordPress core? Aaron Jorb takes us through his experience step-by-step.
Do We Really Know What the Future of Blogging Will Be?
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 4 2010 at 8:00 am | 2 Comments »
Pew Research recently released a study on trends in blogging, looking at the future of blogging. Where will it be? Do you know? Blogging has survived a wide range of attacks and technological improvements, but what lies ahead in the blogging industry now that traditional media has entered the fray – along with everyone else.
Around the WordPress Community: Dynamic Copyrights, Moving WordPress, Microformats, and Twitter to Blog
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 4 2010 at 4:28 am | 2 Comments »
In this week’s Around the WordPress Community, we dig far and wide to bring you WordPress related tips and techniques on moving your WordPress blog, creating dynamic copyrights, injecting content and custom stuff into your WordPress feed, bringing Twitter to your blog, and some great tips on microformats for WordPress Themes.
WordPress.com Pushes PuSH PubSubHubbub
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Mar 3 2010 at 11:42 am | No Comments »
WordPress and WordPress.com announced PubSubHubbub, a Plugin and new feature for WordPress.com blogs which improves the speed and performance of feed subscription services through a decentralized “hub.”
Around the WordPress Community: Post Thumbnails, Videos, Permalinks, Multiple Bloggers Blog, and Designing for iPad
By Lorelle VanFossen, posted Feb 24 2010 at 4:43 am | 1 Comment »
This week our wander through the fields of the WordPress Community include a guide on using the new post thumbnail feature in WordPress, great videos from WordCamp New York, improving your permalink structure, tips for multiple author blogs, a look at some of the most influential designers in the world, and designing website tips for the iPad.