Go Get A Blavatar (3)
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Today’s post is dedicated to Chuck Norris: the man, the myth, the legend, and the star in our demo of a brand-new feature: Blavatars. “What-atars?” you say. Blavatars! Blog + avatars. As the incomparable Nikolay explains in the video below, your blavatar automatically becomes your favicon: the little icon that displays next to your blog’s URL in a browser’s web address bar. It’ll also show up next to your pingbacks in the comments section of ...
WordPress.com » November Wrap-Up (2)
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Howdy! — or should I say “g’day, mate!” since I’m in Sydney for WordCamp Australia? November was a fun month, and the final month of development for WordPress 2.7 — coming very soon. It’s been an exciting process, and we think you’ll become a big fan of the changes that you’ll see in your dashboards. Here are the stats from November: 315,405 blogs were created. 334,578 new users joined. 3,896,520 file uploads. 1930.90 gigabytes of ...
Thanksgiving 2008 (1)
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From us at WordPress to you in the States: Happy Thanksgiving! Today, we’ll be passing the turkey and stuffing, and sharing what we’re thankful for. Such as… Jane: “Puppies and rainbows.” Heather: “Good friends, good food, and good websites.” Maya: “Cashew, Peanut, my job, my house, and the sun.” Matt: “The internet.” What about you? What has motivated, inspired, enlivened, awakened, and otherwise comforted and thrilled you in 2008? Go on and share what you’re ...
If WordPress 2.7 Was A Movie… (10)
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This would be our trailer. Check out some of the upcoming new features and design changes in this sneak preview video, including how to customize your dashboard, the new comment reply feature, the new navigation system, and the customizable posting screen. When you’re finished watching, take the poll below the video to tell us which feature you’re looking forward to the most. View Poll
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This looks so amazing!I can't wait until Monday...
National Novel Writing Month: You Can Do It! (4)
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November is just around the corner. Y’know what that means? National Novel Writing Month! (NaNoWriMo for short.) NaNoWriMo challenges you to write throughout November, piecing together a narrative until, voila! You’ve got a 175-page, 50,000-word novel on your hands. That may sound daunting, but it’s totally doable! In fact, more than 15,000 people did it last year. I lasted about two days when I gave it a go during my senior year in college. But ...
The WordPress App for LinkedIn (7)
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Today we’re happy to announce the launch of the WordPress App for LinkedIn, the largest online network for professionals. The WordPress App for LinkedIn helps you share ideas and updates with your LinkedIn network, keeping your trusted contacts in the loop, effortlessly. To add the WordPress App to your LinkedIn account, visit the LinkedIn Application Directory. Select the WordPress App, enter your blog’s URL, and choose to display either all of your blog posts or ...
Comment Reply Via Email: Closed Beta! (1)
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Today we have a special treat for those of you who are quick to act: closed beta testing for comment reply by email. Check out this video to see how it works, and to hear about another upcoming goody: Comment reply by email makes replying to comments super-easy. Just enable e-mail notifications for comments as you normally would under Settings > Discussion. Then, instead of clicking back to your dashboard, you can reply to the ...
WordPress 2.7: Coming Soon (1)
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As you may know, we’ve been working behind the scenes on the design and development of version 2.7 of the WordPress software that powers your blog. The administration interface you’re used to will be changing as a result of your feedback and the results of the usability testing we conducted over the summer. Version 2.7 is due to release officially on November 10, but in the meantime, we’re posting sneak previews of the look and ...
Automattic Acquires Intense Debate (1)
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I’m pleased to announce that Intense Debate is now an Automattic joint. Intense Debate is a richly interactive comment system that includes cool features like threading, reply by email, voting, reputation, and global profiles. For more details on the product and our plans, check out my blog, Toni’s blog, and Jon’s blog at Intense Debate.
Sticky Posts! (1)
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Regular updates are what blogging’s all about, but sometimes you want to keep hot topics or other static info at the top of your posts. This feature has existed as Sticky Topics in the forums, but hasn’t been available on blogs. Until now. In the publishing options for each post you’ll now see “Stick this post to the front page.” Sticky posts checkbox. Check that box, click Publish and — ta da! — your post ...
