November 2009
7 posts
Blog Subscriptions →
There are many ways of reading WordPress.com blogs and we’ve now added another: email subscriptions. This is a very simple way for your readers to subscribe to your blog and receive…
Nov 25th
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 American Thanksgiving. Appropriate to the…
Nov 20th
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 …
Nov 19th
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…
Nov 19th
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 coming soon to a blog near you (literally!). Have you ever wondered where in…
Nov 13th
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…
Nov 11th
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…
Nov 9th
October 2009
20 posts
Vote on the WordPress Logo Entries →
Last week you had fun with the WordPress logo. We received nearly 100 entries and many of you have been patiently waiting for news. You don’t have to wait any longer. Here are our favorites…
Oct 24th
VideoPress supports Ogg →
As strong believers in open source technology, we were excited when Firefox started supporting the new HTML video tag this past summer. It has the potential to transform the future of online…
Oct 22nd
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The Hero Is In Your Pocket →
As technology advances, mobile devices are playing a bigger role in our lives. Thousands of you have been using the iPhone and Blackberry applications to post and edit content for your blog,…
Oct 20th
Display Your Photos In Style →
Our team loves photography and we hope you do too. While taking countless photos in Quebec, we thought it would be an appropriate time to update the image templates for all of the WordPress.com…
Oct 19th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 8th
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Publicize: Twitter →
We dig Twitter over here at WordPress.com (check us out at @wordpressdotcom). With the launch of our newest Publicize feature, we dig it even more since you can now tweet your WordPress.com…
Oct 8th
My rant on the US health care system
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Oct 8th
Oct 8th
Support Hours and WordPress Logo Fun →
As Matt mentioned in the September Wrap-Up, the Automattic crew is heading to Québec City to work on some top-secret projects. It worked well when we closed the email support system for our
Oct 8th
Access to Premium Images →
We all love adding great images to our blog posts, and today we’ve enabled a new WordPress.com Shortcode that adds millions of available premium images to the mix, all for free. The Shortcode is…
Oct 6th
Oct 6th
New Theme: DePo Square →
Today we’re bringing you yet another theme designed by Derek Powazek: DePo Square. This theme looks great! Minimal, simple, yet unique. But, it doesn’t stop with great design….
Oct 2nd
Publicize: Yahoo! Updates →
You can now send your WordPress.com posts to your Yahoo! Profile via the Yahoo! Updates service. Check out that cute WordPress icon! The feature can be enabled from your Dashboard…
Oct 2nd
September Wrap-Up →
September was a big month for us. We acquired proofreading service After the Deadline, and launched it as a feature on WordPress.com. We implemented RSS Cloud and custom CSS revisions. The
Oct 2nd
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rmilana: iamdpbeltran: iadiedee: OK figured some of it out but rmilana you haven’t followed me back yet u’ll get the hang of this XD follow train coming :P Getting it :) follow away - I won’t guarantee the caboose won’t jump the track though.
Oct 2nd
OK figured some of it out but rmilana you haven’t followed me back yet
Oct 2nd
OK so I had this place set up a while ago. I just don’t know what I’m doing. HELP!
Oct 2nd
September 2009
4 posts
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…
Sep 10th
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…
Sep 9th
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…
Sep 8th
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…
Sep 4th
August 2009
6 posts
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…
Aug 27th
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,…
Aug 21st
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…
Aug 14th
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 …
Aug 14th
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…
Aug 13th
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…
Aug 5th
July 2009
6 posts
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 …
Jul 30th
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…
Jul 23rd
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…
Jul 17th
Vote for Media Features →
Here at WordPress.com, we always run the most recent version of the WordPress open source software. In addition, we do custom development so that we can offer features not included in the open…
Jul 8th
June Wrap-Up →
Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn…
Jul 2nd
National Blog Posting Month →
Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with…
Jul 2nd
June 2009
7 posts
SocialVibe →
You spend a lot of time creating great content and attracting an audience for your blog. What if you could use that influence to make a positive social impact? Now you can. We’ve teamed up with…
Jun 15th
May Wrap-Up →
Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever. May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of new features: the ability to add YouTube videos and polls to comments, stats in your time…
Jun 15th
Viva Palestina UK Convoy Update →
14th June 2009 Hello everyone, Convoy route One of the most common questions we’re being asked is how long the convoy will take. The trip this time – via Europe, Syria, and Jordan before crossing…
Jun 15th
My Tumblr place on the web
Welcome to my Tumblr place on the interwebs. My main blog is http://iadiedee.wordpress.com. I’m moderator at http://condron.us which is a great place to hang out. You can find me on Twitter too @iadiedee. I make some great totes and purses that you can purchase at http://iadiedee.artfire.com although I’m considering moving them to Ebay. Sales are slow even though the bags (in all...
Jun 14th
Condron.us →
Get legitimate traffic to your blog, join a great forum community or just sit and find blogs in an area you’re interested in. The blogroll is continuously updated and content is fresh. It’s for bloggers to find other bloggers or to find others of similar interests. It’s not fully intended to generate traffic. That’s a side effect of the great community.
Jun 14th
“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down that matters. It...”
– Diamond Dallas Page
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