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During the Automattic company meetup, Team 21* holed up in a cottage outside Québec to create a new...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:56:28 +0100

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 we’re introducing.

Starting today, when you log in to write a post, you have the option of…

This weekend, November 14-15, a whole bunch of the friendly faces from Automattic and...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:04:25 +0100

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 of the organizers, so of course *I* think it will be awesome, but in this…

Cuantos enemigos tiene Obama??http://bit.ly/2To1so http://ff.im/beCK0

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:57:41 +0100

Cuantos enemigos tiene Obama??http://bit.ly/2To1so http://ff.im/beCK0

November 9th 2009 is Firefox’s fifth birthday. Firefox and WordPress have grown up next to each...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:19:41 +0100

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 — 31.2%
Internet Explorer — 29.9%
Safari/Chrome — 8.6%

This is the first time I’ve ever…

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

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:13:58 +0100

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 rssCloud notification requests. The WordPress.org rssCloud plugin supports it as well.

An…

October was another busy and productive month. We released Publicize for Yahoo! Updates and...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:34:50 +0100

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 video format.

Many of us will be heading out to the Big Apple this month…

When we announced After the Deadline, the proofreading tool used on WordPress.com, many of you...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:06:04 +0100

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 HTML Editor has the same features as the one for the Visual Editor.

Click to…

I’m constantly finding sites on WordPress.com that leave me happily surprised. I ran across Wir...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:42:10 +0200

I’m constantly finding sites on WordPress.com that leave me happily surprised. I ran across Wir sprechen Online a few weeks ago and just kept coming back to it. For both the content and the design.

Wir sprechen Online is a P2 powered blog written in both German and English with content ranging from tech tid-bits to personal posts. Aside from the great content, I love how the site has taken advantage of the CSS Upgrade. The customized header, tweaked colors, and other…

Last month, the Support team (also known as Happiness Engineers) got together to brainstorm new...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:42:10 +0200

Last month, the Support team (also known as Happiness Engineers) got together to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the features and resources you need.

Out of that meetup came a number of improvements and features, like the RSS Links Widget, introduced earlier this month. Another is the Image Widget, launching today.

In the past, it was necessary to use HTML in a text widget to display images in your sidebar. Now all you have to do is plop a URL in the image widget. The…

The Happiness Engineers had a great time in London last week. We worked on some cool projects and...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:26:41 +0200

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 and months.

One of the items we worked on is a widget we call RSS Links, which allows you to display text and/or image links to the comment and post feeds of your blog.

No need to mess around with HTML in a text widget. Go to Appearance->Widgets in your Dashboard, add the RSS Links…

Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about...

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:36:43 +0200

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 perfect writers or that we just forget to run the spell checker. I’m in the latter camp.

I don’t blame you — spell checkers are usually pretty lame. They are bad with most proper nouns and usually my problem isn’t spelling (which my browser catches), but grammar and style.

It’s amazing to me how…

Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:33:54 +0200

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 or Bloglines. You may not know what RSS is but chances are people are using it to read your blog. We track over 50,000,000 posts read via RSS every week. (Around a 18% addition to our on-site views!)

Today we turned on support for all 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com something called RSS Cloud…

I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for the Happiness Engineer meetup. It’s serious...

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:09:04 +0200

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 developers have been hard at work, too. In August, we launched the SoundCloud shortcode and WP.me, a URL shortener for WordPress blogs. And at your request, we introduced two new themes: iNove and Sandbox 1.6.1.

Here are last month’s stats:

426,047 blogs were created.
4,560,168 posts were…

In the coming week, the Support crew (seen among the lovely faces here) will be meeting in London...

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:50:30 +0200

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 Engineers are putting our heads together to churn out some big ideas, we’ll be closing our email support system.

Support will be unavailable from 10 a.m. EST on Friday, August 28 to 4 a.m. EST on Monday, September 7.

Of course, our team will still be monitoring servers and services while we’re…

Sandbox 1.6.1 is now available to all WordPress.com blogs. Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 you’ll also find...

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:54:27 +0200

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, they haven’t changed. However, we do urge you to check out 1.6.1.

Sandbox is a skeleton theme for WordPress. Though you can use it by itself, it’s mainly intended for dressing up with a custom Custom CSS Stylesheet upgrade. Sandbox provides all the HTML markup, with a rich semantic structure, and…

Con aplicacion para twitter en el SonyEricsson! Que gran compra el W715

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:52:44 +0200

Con aplicacion para twitter en el SonyEricsson! Que gran compra el W715

http://bit.ly/ozmIf http://ff.im/6SJXW

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:52:43 +0200

http://bit.ly/ozmIf http://ff.im/6SJXW

We are big fans of SoundCloud, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part...

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:53:07 +0200

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 service to distribute tracks through their blogs and connect with their fans.

We’ve received many requests from WordPress.com bloggers that they would like us to work with SoundCloud to enable this service, and today we have some good news for you! You can now easily embed the SoundCloud player on…

Check out this address: http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here....

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:53:05 +0200

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 permalink for this post. URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways.

WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.
These are all exposed in the using …

iNove by mg12 is one of the top themes used for self-hosted WordPress blogs, and a commonly...

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:03:54 +0200

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 bring you the cool new stuff you want, so now you’ve got it, too! iNove for WordPress.com:

Some handy features of this theme:

Display pages or categories in the menu below your header.
Display your page hierarchy in your menu on hover.
Options to show a notice, banner, and special…