November 2009
2 posts
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…
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…
October 2009
10 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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
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…
Theme Viewer →
We know you love themes and we know you like to try new ones. With our new super-charged theme viewer this is now even easier than before.
The new theme viewer let’s you quickly step…
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…
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
September 2009
8 posts
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….
Custom CSS Revisions →
Customizing your theme just got easier! The Custom CSS Upgrade now provides the ability to save revisions of your code and uses the same engine that WordPress uses for post revisions.
If you…
Imaginative CSS →
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…
The Image Widget, Plus News from Support →
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
June 2009
2 posts
The Hangover – movie review →
Featuring a cast of unknowns, The Hangover has seemingly come from nowhere to already become one of the highest grossing comedies ever in the US. Hyperbole would seem inevitable, and…
I Got Married in Australia.. →
…and I’ve got the photos to prove it!
Click on the picture (above) to see a detailed pictoral history of what we got up to during one month in Tropical North Queensland.
Each group…
May 2009
2 posts
Watch“Le Donk” - new Shane Meadows film
April 2009
21 posts
WatchGhostbusters!!
WatchCincinnati has REAL superheroes!
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In The Loop - movie review →
Unlikely as it may sound, I think there is a strong case for “In The Loop” to complete a double feature with “Crank: High Voltage.” Both films share a frenetic, relentless pace; a cast…
Crank 2: High Voltage - movie review →
If you saw 2006’s Crank, you will most likely recall that the final scene of the film had Jason Statham’s “Chev Chelios” falling from a helicopter over Los Angeles and bouncing off the…
Giant Robots fighting! →
the Transformers 2 Showest footage that went online on Saturday night for a few hours was rapidly taken down - click here to get it from megaupload, before placing a cushion and a towel on the floor for when your jaw drops and you start drooling.
Watchnew footage from Transformers 2. Bumblebee slapstick & OARSUM mecha car-nage.
Edit: bah, it’s been taken down. you’ll have to trust me. it was siiiiiiick.
WatchTrek Yourself
I Love You, Man - movie review. →
“I Love You, Man” is a decidedly hippy-ish Dude-erism - a phrase that inherently feels like it belongs in a bong-smoked corner of California, and one that I suspect will put…
WatchMoon trailer. looking good!
Watchfrom the director of Office Space, Idiocracy, and Beavis & Butthead..