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WordPress.com Video Contest: Giving Thanks

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:14:54 -0500

WordPress.com Video Contest: Giving Thanks:

Announcing our first-ever video contest, brought to you by turkey, stuffing, and that gelatinous stuff that grandma calls cranberry sauce. Yes, that’s U.S. Thanksgiving. Appropriate to the…

A new translation platform

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:19:20 -0500

A new translation platform:

The full translation of WordPress.com is an ongoing process, of which you are a great part and whom we thank for the patience and assistance. Thanks to you, WordPress.com is now available in …

A New P2

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:48:53 -0500

A New P2:

The New P2

For those of you who haven’t yet tried it, P2 is an awesome micro blogging theme with quick front end posting, live ajax updating, and inline threaded comments. It…

A Blog Near You

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:05:28 -0500

A Blog Near You:

During the Automattic company meetup, Team 21* holed up in a cottage outside Québec to create a new set of features for a blog near you (literally!). Have you ever wondered where in the world a…

WordCamp NYC This Weekend!

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:16:57 -0500

WordCamp NYC This Weekend!:

This weekend, November 14-15, a whole bunch of the friendly faces from Automattic and WordPress.com will be in New York City to attend WordCamp NYC. If you’re a NYC area local…

Happy Birthday Firefox

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:30:35 -0500

Happy Birthday Firefox:

November 9th 2009 is Firefox’s fifth birthday. Firefox and WordPress have grown up next to each other so we’ve always felt a brethren spirit with their team as we work toward the same…

rssCloud Update

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:41:54 -0500

rssCloud Update:

Two months ago we turned on support for rssCloud on WordPress.com. Today we’re announcing some improvements.

Initially rssCloud limited update pings to the IP address that made the…

RSS Links Widget

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:56:41 -0400

RSS Links Widget:

The Happiness Engineers had a great time in London last week. We worked on some cool projects and came up with a lot of great ideas. We’ll bring more updates to you over the coming weeks…

After the Deadline Live for WP.com

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:51:43 -0400

After the Deadline Live for WP.com:

Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about 204 thousand times. Ahem. The two possible explanations for this are that we’re all…

RSS in the Clouds

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:53:10 -0400

RSS in the Clouds:

Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader…

August Wrap-Up

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:23:46 -0400

August Wrap-Up:

I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for the Happiness Engineer meetup. It’s serious business, but the group has managed to have a little fun along the way.

Our…

Support Hours and Updates

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:56:37 -0400

Support Hours and Updates:

In the coming week, the Support crew (seen among the lovely faces here) will be meeting in London to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the resources you need. While us Happiness…

New Theme: Sandbox 1.6.1

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:28:27 -0400

New Theme: Sandbox 1.6.1:

Sandbox 1.6.1 is now available to all WordPress.com blogs.

Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 you’ll also find the older Sandbox versions. We’ve left them intact. If you’ve been using them, don’t worry,…

WP.me — shorten your links

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:12:38 -0400

WP.me — shorten your links:

Check out this address:

http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten

If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the …

SoundCloud

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:24:39 -0400

SoundCloud:

We are big fans of SoundCloud, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part professional music collaboration hub. Artists such as Beck, Moby and Sonic Youth now use the…

New Theme: iNove

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:11:01 -0400

New Theme: iNove:

iNove by mg12 is one of the top themes used for self-hosted WordPress blogs, and a commonly requested addition to our offerings here on WordPress.com. We’re always doing what we can to…

July Wrap-Up

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:32:35 -0400

July Wrap-Up:

We kicked off July with an open vote on new media features. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress.

Later in the month we…

Archives Shortcode

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:00:04 -0400

Archives Shortcode:

You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our …

Gravatar Widget

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:19:19 -0400

Gravatar Widget:

Say goodbye to messing around with HTML in a Text widget just to get an “About Me” in your sidebar. With the new Gravatar widget it only takes a few seconds to achieve this and stamp…

PollDaddy ratings and polls

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:08:24 -0400

PollDaddy ratings and polls:

PollDaddy joined the Automattic team last year, and we have been working on adding some of our great features directly into the WordPress platform ever since.

Ratings

The PollDaddy rating…