December 2009
2 posts
A Little Snow for the Holidays →
I’ve seen my fair share of snow growing up in northern Michigan. The sun was shining today, but there is a good chance we’ll have snow on the ground by the end of the week. My favorite…
Dec 3rd
Better Source Code Posting →
For the coders among you, you may already know that posting source code is really easy here on WordPress.com thanks to the sourcecode shortcode. You just wrap your code in [sourcecode] and…
Dec 2nd
November 2009
8 posts
Video Contest Extended! →
Earlier this week, we launched a WordPress.com Video Contest all about giving thanks. No matter where on Earth you are, we invited you to submit a 30-second video all about the things that…
Nov 28th
Black Friday 20 hour 20% off sale now on! →
In the US there are some strange traditions, and one of them is the day after Thanksgiving people line up from 3 or 4 in the morning to be the first people in a store when it opens to get…
Nov 27th
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 for a blog near you (literally!). Have you ever wondered where in the world a…
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
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 20th
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
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 13th
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
11 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…
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Yahoo! App and 360 Importer →
We’ve got two Yahoo! related news items today. The first is that we’ve launched a Yahoo! 360 importer (listed in your admin screens under Tools → Import) to make migration from 360 to…
Jun 5th
May 2009
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May 20th
Announcing VideoPress.com →
The tasty new logo We’ve been busy lately here at WordPress.com — we’ve had an announcement of a new or updated feature for you every day this week. Today, you’re getting a…
May 15th
Comment Reply via Email Improvements →
Since opening up the comment reply via email feature to everyone last month we’ve been continuing to improve it. Here are some of changes that have gone in during the last few weeks: Better…
May 15th
Comment Search →
You guys are generating an amazing amount of feedback on your blogs. Matt mentioned in the April Wrap-Up that there were 8.6 million comments! Comments are flying in every second of the day. …
May 14th
New stats charts →
If you’ve looked at your WordPress.com blog stats today, you might have noticed the charts look a little different. We’ve replaced the old proprietary chart object with Open Flash Chart, an…
May 14th
Post by Email →
Have you ever wanted to fire off a post from your phone, Blackberry, Outlook at work…? Following on from Comment Reply Via Email we’re introducing our latest feature to make it even easier to…
May 12th
Get HD WordPress Video with VideoPress →
You may have noticed that videos around here have been getting higher and higher quality. I don’t just mean the cool content from WordPress.tv, but the video player and video/audio quality…
May 11th
April Wrap-Up →
In April we introduced Instant Findability, TED video embeds, a springtime theme, a cool new domain, and reply-by-email for comments, now open to all. A pretty busy month, with more…
May 9th
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