September 2009
4 posts
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...
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...
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...
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...
August 2009
6 posts
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 10 a.m. EST on Monday,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 introduced PollDaddy ratings and polls, the Gravatar widget, and the archives shortcode (one of many you can check out here).
Here are July’s stats:
394,609 blogs were created.
5,666,839 posts were...
July 2009
81 posts
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 Categories, Tag Cloud, and Archives widgets do their parts, but we’ve come up with an extra little something that you may care to use.
Enter our newest shortcode – [archives].
This little guy will allow you to...
What movie is the quote from?: “Cuz the BUSTA kept me out of handcuffs!!!”
http://bit.ly/PUkvZ -1 for techno on this vid. +1 for the next great TWolf, Jonny Flynn. Summer League Highlights.
Serenity is such an underrated sci-fi flick. Watching on Sci-Fi channel.
What movie is this from?: “Did he just say funky butt-loving?”
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 your blog as your own!
If you’re not familiar with a Gravatar it’s a graphical representation used to identify yourself in WordPress blogs and other sites. It’s already built in to your WordPress.com account and...
about to go around the isle w/ the honolulu youth, pastor juan, james, and @thatguyshaun. gonna be a good day! i’m driving a jeep commander!
day with the youth around the isle was fun. got some aokis too. time to return the rental soon. boo!
finished my first complete draft of the “Find Rest” Beat. Anyone wanna hear? @samnaka thanks again for sending the song!
guess who’s gonna be a lil late at the “spot”? argh!
Royal goodness. *sip* Ahhhh!
wowwwww. TwitCam. Live video comed to Twitter.
dear future wife of @dainzers, i feel sorry for you. haha. im kiddin, dain.
alright got @redx105 @BellyButtonLnt @frannis to hang out. Who else???
Finished Kid’s Church Beat. Now off to wherevers. I hungry. Anyone want some Royal? Haha.
http://twitpic.com/avp94 - Royal FTW! I really look like a kid. Haha.
Such a classic Mountain Dew Commercial. Epic! http://bit.ly/11GycS
“Quick! Change the channel!” Hahaha. http://bit.ly/CZ8tl
Just woke up from a nap. Kid’s Church, 10:45 SVC, Blazin’ Steaks earlier today. Soon Sunday night SVC. Excited for another great message!
Off to SVC. One more classic hip-hop: Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow http://bit.ly/S8lRb
Church msg is hittin people right now. Foundation in God.
Found this classic! B.U.M.S. - Elevation. Dope sample! Xzibit & Crazy Legs in the video. http://bit.ly/18V2Xk
Hip-Hop Classic of the Day: http://bit.ly/11h7CM “This is it…What?!”
http://bit.ly/11GycS At 3:10 - Bad guy: “How’d u like the lesson? You’re not so tough” Chuck Norris: “My Turn” OWNED!
If you’re trying to find out what to do tonight. let me know, let’s plan something. spontaneity FTW!
http://bit.ly/17qaxi I miss my MPC :[
working on Kid’s Church beat. Simple but it’s taking awhile.
Hip-Hop Classic of the day: http://bit.ly/tXwui Funkdoobiest - Dedicated. “This goes out to…”
Anybody wanna join me tonight to a party? My cousins invited me to a BBQ in Ewa. Wanna reach out to them & their friends. Help?
PTL! Royal exists in Hawaii.
lunch with Cristalyne at Genki. Then bsck home to work on beat for Kid’s church and find a beat for Izon.
If I didn’t drop off my mom to Pearl City, I wouldn’t have been able to speak about you. Open door to come church has been presented. PTL.
http://bit.ly/hB80U “Gordon Street? I once knew a girl that lived on Gordon Street” Haha. #FavoriteWaynesWorld2Moment
D-Brock with The Foreign Exchange…super underrated! “Come Around” http://bit.ly/3NaqL
WIN! Boomerang on Comedy Central. Haha. Ahhh. It just ended.
http://bit.ly/9A2Cp DEVIL’S BACKBONE! #FavoriteAirborneMoment
It’s 3:42am just saw how much @parris50 @meesparker @jimepino @BellyButtonLnt @hellopo etc. etc. all tweaked out on twitter earlier. danggg!
http://bit.ly/ldbYk “Mitchell Goosen…At your service” #FavoriteAirborneMoment
Heidi Riego facts: 18 yrs old. 2008 grad. From Perris, CA. Homecoming queen of Perris HS. Ballet, Jazz, Hip-Hop dance since 4. 4.0 GPA. :]
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 feature that was enabled on WordPress.com last week has really started to see some use. Over 100k blog posts, pages and comments on WordPress.com are now being rated. If you need some help getting started,...