August 2010
4 posts
Like a Post? Well Then, “Like” It! →
Starting today you’ll notice a new feature at the bottom of all WordPress.com blog posts. We’ve enabled a “Like” button, which, when clicked, shows a Gravatar image for all the bloggers who like a…
Aug 4th
Putting a Spin on Twenty Ten’s Header Image →
Earlier this year, we unveiled the new Twenty Ten default theme. Every blog using the theme was automatically set with the header image shown below. But, because there are actually seven…
Aug 4th
Earlier this year, we unveiled the new Twenty Ten default theme. Every blog using the theme was automatically set with the header image shown below. But, because there are actually seven other equally lovely header images in Twenty Ten, we have now randomized the default header image for each blog. If you use Twenty Ten, you may see a brand-new image starting today. If you have uploaded a...
Aug 4th
Starting today you’ll notice a new feature at the bottom of all WordPress.com blog posts. We’ve enabled a “Like” button, which, when clicked, shows a Gravatar image for all the bloggers who like a post. When you “like” a post two core things happen. First, the blog post’s author sees your “like” and can click-through to your Gravatar profile. Second, clicking “like” saves the post in your...
Aug 4th
July 2010
2 posts
Protect your Privacy with Private Domain... →
Keep your private details secure One of the requirements of owning a domain is that you must give your contact details when registering that domain. Internet regulations require that…
Jul 30th
Keep your private details secure One of the requirements of owning a domain is that you must give your contact details when registering that domain. Internet regulations require that your name, address, email, and phone number be accessible 24/7 to anybody who wants to see them just by looking up your domain. This rule was created to make it easy to contact a domain owner in case of...
Jul 30th
March 2010
4 posts
New Theme: Titan →
Titan is a fantastic theme, now available on WordPress.com. It’s a highly readable, clean theme, with lots of options: four widget areas, a customizable header, and more. Behold…
Mar 9th
Titan is a fantastic theme, now available on WordPress.com. It’s a highly readable, clean theme, with lots of options: four widget areas, a customizable header, and more. Behold Titan! An enticing color scheme and loads of customization make Titan a wonderful theme for you blog. To start things off the header has some nice social networking and RSS links, making it easy for users to keep up...
Mar 9th
Rub-a-Dub-Dub in the PubSubHubbub →
From the tongue twisting name department we welcome PubSubHubbub, or as some people have shortened it to: PuSH. Like rssCloud, PuSH is a way for services that subscribe to updates from your blog…
Mar 3rd
From the tongue twisting name department we welcome PubSubHubbub, or as some people have shortened it to: PuSH. Like rssCloud, PuSH is a way for services that subscribe to updates from your blog (think Google Reader, Bloglines or Netvibes) to get updates even faster. In a nutshell, instead of having to periodically ask your blog if there are any updates they can now register to automatically...
Mar 3rd
February 2010
21 posts
Publicize: Facebook →
You can now send your WordPress.com posts to Facebook. Joining our Yahoo and Twitter features is the latest in WordPress.com’s Publicize family: Facebook. The feature can be…
Feb 27th
You can now send your WordPress.com posts to Facebook. Joining our Yahoo and Twitter features is the latest in WordPress.com’s Publicize family: Facebook. The feature can be enabled from your Dashboard → My Blogs admin page. Once you enable it, you’ll be directed through an authorization procedure to confirm that you want to connect your WordPress.com blog and your Facebook account. These...
Feb 27th
The Blame Game
The Blame Game. This is something that has gone on from the beginning of time. People look to blame the other on issues so that they feel someone is responsible for societies mysteries if not themeless.  This seems to be the case when it comes to media in society. Today I was reading the BCC and it had an article on children being over sexed by...
Feb 26th
GO America GDP!
Feb 26th
GO America GDP!
Feb 26th
Proofread More Languages →
We’re often asked when we plan to make our intelligent proofreading technology available for more languages. We’ve been hard at work and today we’re announcing After the Deadline proofreading…
Feb 15th
We’re often asked when we plan to make our intelligent proofreading technology available for more languages. We’ve been hard at work and today we’re announcing After the Deadline proofreading for French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. These languages feature After the Deadline’s smart contextual spell checking. We’re also using a great open source project called Language Tool to check French...
Feb 15th
Here at WordPress.com we like to keep stats on the various features and resources available to our users. So as part of the release for rssCloud on WordPress.com I added internal stats to see how it was being used. It tracks things like the number of subscription requests and the number of sent notifications (pings) that get processed each day. That’s where the numbers for my rssCloud Update post...
Feb 13th
rssCloud By The Numbers →
Here at WordPress.com we like to keep stats on the various features and resources available to our users. So as part of the release for rssCloud on WordPress.com I added internal stats to see how…
Feb 13th
Mobile Apps for WordPress →
February has been a great month for mobile blogging on WordPress.com. In just the past week, WordPress apps for Android and BlackBerry made their official debuts, and the iPhone app reached …
Feb 11th
February has been a great month for mobile blogging on WordPress.com. In just the past week, WordPress apps for Android and BlackBerry made their official debuts, and the iPhone app reached version 2.2. No other blogging service has this kind of app support across these three smartphone platforms — we checked! Power and control, on the go While each of these mobile apps is unique, they share a...
Feb 11th
Sitemap pings for instant search updates →
Publishing your blog on WordPress.com lets you focus on your content while we sweat the technical stuff, including helping your content reach a larger audience. Last week WordPress.com…
Feb 11th
Publishing your blog on WordPress.com lets you focus on your content while we sweat the technical stuff, including helping your content reach a larger audience. Last week WordPress.com turned on sitemap pings for our millions of hosted blogs. Now, immediately after you publish or delete a page or post*, your WordPress.com blog sends a ping to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask. These immediate...
Feb 11th
New Theme: Motion →
I’m happy to present to you, “Motion,” a dashing new theme inspired by movement and film. Bursting with style and options, Motion is a clean, colorful, and charismatic new theme. …
Feb 10th
I’m happy to present to you, “Motion,” a dashing new theme inspired by movement and film. Bursting with style and options, Motion is a clean, colorful, and charismatic new theme. Motion, a colorful and clean theme. Motion combines color and clean lines to give your content character without hindering consumption. Aside from great design, the theme features some pretty interesting features. The...
Feb 10th
Posterous is a blogging system that launched with an interesting twist — everything happens via email from signup to posting. Since the launch of our post by email features in addition to things like email comment replies and blog subscriptions we’ve been receiving more inquiries from people wanting to graduate from Posterous to a full blog with the features, flexibility, and reliability of...
Feb 9th
Posterous Importer →
Posterous is a blogging system that launched with an interesting twist — everything happens via email from signup to posting. Since the launch of our post by email features in addition to…
Feb 9th
New Theme: Steira →
Full of character yet minimal, we bring you the wonderful “Steira,” bursting at the seams with detail and functionality. Steira in all its glory! Recent Comments Widget…
Feb 9th
Full of character yet minimal, we bring you the wonderful “Steira,” bursting at the seams with detail and functionality. Steira in all its glory! Recent Comments Widget for Steira The sidebar is large in this theme giving you a lot of room to play. Any widget will do, but the custom widgets are quite convenient and stylish. The “Recent Comments” widget is especially nice. It shows a...
Feb 9th
Improved Polls and Ratings →
We have made a couple of updates to the polls and ratings feature on WordPress.com that you may have already noticed. Ratings on front page There is now an option in the ratings settings to…
Feb 4th
We have made a couple of updates to the polls and ratings feature on WordPress.com that you may have already noticed. Ratings on front page There is now an option in the ratings settings to allow you to display your posts ratings on the front page. Usage is very simple – pick whether you want the rating above or below the post, and save. Your ratings will now appear on your blogs front...
Feb 4th
November 2009
12 posts
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…
Nov 13th
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 blog post was written? Where a commenter was located? If there were other WordPress.com bloggers near you? If so, hold on to your hat, because you’re going to love the geotagging and geolocation features...
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
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 (and really, with Acela service being what it is, doesn’t that almost mean anywhere from Boston to D.C.?), we hope you’ll join us at what’s shaping up to be one of the most exciting WordCamps of all time. (Okay, I’m one...
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
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 goal, making the web a better place, from opposite ends of the spectrum. Just out of curiosity, I wondered how Firefox was doing in our browser stats compared to the posts I did in 2008 and 2007. Firefox — 45.7% ...
Nov 9th
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…
Nov 5th
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 notification request. To get around this a domain parameter was suggested, that included a challenge mechanism to verify the notification request. WordPress.com now supports the domain parameter ( and challenge ) for...
Nov 5th
October Wrap-Up →
October was another busy and productive month. We released Publicize for Yahoo! Updates and Twitter, and upgraded the Theme Viewer for WordPress.com. Coming out of the Automattic team…
Nov 4th
October was another busy and productive month. We released Publicize for Yahoo! Updates and Twitter, and upgraded the Theme Viewer for WordPress.com. Coming out of the Automattic team meetup in Québec City, we launched new image templates and mobile themes, and open sourced our After the Deadline proofreader. We also shipped WordPress 2 for iPhone and added support to VideoPress for Ogg, an open...
Nov 4th
Proofreading support for the HTML Editor →
When we announced After the Deadline, the proofreading tool used on WordPress.com, many of you asked us to add proofreading to the HTML Editor. The HTML Editor lets you edit the HTML in your…
Nov 3rd
When we announced After the Deadline, the proofreading tool used on WordPress.com, many of you asked us to add proofreading to the HTML Editor. The HTML Editor lets you edit the HTML in your posts and pages directly. It is also very lightweight. We’ve been hard at work and now you can check your spelling, style, and grammar from the HTML Editor. Here is a screenshot: The proofreader for the...
Nov 3rd
October 2009
44 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
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 split into 5 categories. Cast your votes to pick the final winners. Voting will close on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 12pm EST. Click an image to see the large version displayed in the user’s blog...
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
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 22nd
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, and over 60 million page views a month of WordPress.com blogs have been on mobile devices. New smartphones do a great job with most web sites, but older phones have many problems and may not display anything...
Oct 22nd
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 video. While we are still working on adding full support for video tag, we are happy to announce that we have encoded all of our video inventories in Theora/Ogg format as well as the usual mp4 formats....
Oct 22nd
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