June 2010
5 posts
200,000,000 Posts… and Counting →
This month we passed an impressive milestone: 200,000,000 posts have been published on WordPress.com. Does this number surprise us? Not at all. Because we’ve long known that you — our users — have…
Jun 18th
New Theme: Wu Wei →
The Taoist concept of “Wu Wei” involves knowing when to act and when not to act. It’s also the name and neat description of the design philosophy behind today’s new one-column theme. Let’s take a…
Jun 14th
Downtime →
As some of you noticed, including a number of major media organizations, WordPress.com had some unexpected downtime on Thursday evening. Whether you’re eating delicious BBQ, as I was, watching a…
Jun 14th
New Theme: Andrea →
Our newest theme is Andrea, a gorgeously minimal two-column theme with an unusual blue color scheme. Click to view slideshow. Though the design may seem simple on the surface, once you try it you…
Jun 10th
Custom Menu Feature Filter →
Based on your feedback, you are loving the Custom Menu feature we launched two weeks ago. It’s natural to want that feature enabled for your favorite theme, too. We’re working on adding it to…
Jun 9th
May 2010
4 posts
New Theme: Enterprise →
Meet our newest super-clean theme, Enterprise—perfect for bloggers wanting a more corporate look for their blog. The Enterprise Theme One of my favorite Enterprise features is the…
May 13th
Congratulations to Our ‘Bloggers Who Really Count’ →
We were thrilled to see several WordPress.com blogs — Eat Like a Girl, James Ramsden, Inspector Gadget, and Stilletoed Socialist — make the list of The Times’ article “40 bloggers…
May 13th
New Theme: Bueno →
Bueno is a stylish and fun theme featuring a custom header, custom background, and multiple fresh color schemes. Click to view slideshow. Bueno’s rainbow of alternate color schemes, default…
May 6th
New Theme: Vostok →
Vostok is an elegant one-column theme sporting a dark background and light text that is readable and easy on the eyes. The minimal layout is perfect for publishing your personal lifestream in a…
May 4th
April 2010
1 post
DNS Editing Deployed →
A few years ago, when we began to offer domain mapping—serving a WordPress.com blog on your domain, like example.com—we omitted DNS control because we didn’t count on many people needing it. Soon…
Apr 1st
March 2010
10 posts
Share Photos with a Slideshow →
Media is a big part of my life. Showing friends a slideshow of a weekend excursion is a common occurrence. When blogging these photos, displaying them in a long gallery doesn’t always make…
Mar 31st
Gravatar-Powered Profiles →
We’ve always sort-of had profiles here on WordPress.com — you probably remember giving your name and such when you first signed up for WordPress.com — but they’ve always been a little lame. You’d…
Mar 26th
New Theme: Neutra →
Today, we’re bringing you another new theme. Neutra is a simple and elegant theme. Dabs of color accent this typographically focused theme built upon a solid grid-based design. Neutra The design is extremely inviting. Colors accent the white and gray design, helping showcase your content without distraction. The headers are quite warm and inspiring.
Mar 25th
Ada Lovelace Day →
March 24 was Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Over on the Publisher Blog we highlighted two women in the…
Mar 25th
New Theme: Dark Wood →
Go against the grain with “Dark Wood,” an eye-catching and playful theme. Bright colors and whimsical icons fuse with dark tones to provide a pleasing and harmonious design. Dark Wood is a three…
Mar 19th
Set Your Blog’s Timezone by City →
One of my favorite things about working on WordPress.com is that improvements get made and pushed out as soon as they’re tested and ready. Just a day after I wrote about manually changing your…
Mar 16th
Time to Spring Forward →
Ah, spring, when a young person’s fancy turns to … blogging. And time changes. (Maybe baseball too, if that’s your thing.) WordPress.com blog time settings follow the UTC time standard. This…
Mar 14th
OMG WordPress BBQ at SxSW →
This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and fans (including many hosted here on WordPress.com) are among the people attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive conference in…
Mar 13th
New Theme: Titan →
Titan is a fantastic theme, now available on WordPress.com. It’s a highly readable, clean theme, with lots of options: four widget areas, a customizable header, and more. Behold…
Mar 9th
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February 2010
9 posts
WP.com Downtime Summary →
Today WordPress.com was down for approximately 110 minutes, our worst downtime in four years. The outage affected 10.2 million blogs, including our VIPs, and appears to have deprived those blogs…
Feb 19th
Proofread More Languages →
We’re often asked when we plan to make our intelligent proofreading technology available for more languages. We’ve been hard at work and today we’re announcing After the Deadline proofreading…
Feb 15th
rssCloud By The Numbers →
Here at WordPress.com we like to keep stats on the various features and resources available to our users. So as part of the release for rssCloud on WordPress.com I added internal stats to see how…
Feb 13th
Mobile Apps for WordPress →
February has been a great month for mobile blogging on WordPress.com. In just the past week, WordPress apps for Android and BlackBerry made their official debuts, and the iPhone app reached …
Feb 11th
Sitemap pings for instant search updates →
Publishing your blog on WordPress.com lets you focus on your content while we sweat the technical stuff, including helping your content reach a larger audience. Last week WordPress.com…
Feb 11th
New Theme: Motion →
I’m happy to present to you, “Motion,” a dashing new theme inspired by movement and film. Bursting with style and options, Motion is a clean, colorful, and charismatic new theme. …
Feb 11th
Posterous Importer →
Posterous is a blogging system that launched with an interesting twist — everything happens via email from signup to posting. Since the launch of our post by email features in addition to…
Feb 9th
New Theme: Steira →
Full of character yet minimal, we bring you the wonderful “Steira,” bursting at the seams with detail and functionality. Steira in all its glory! Recent Comments Widget…
Feb 9th
Improved Polls and Ratings →
We have made a couple of updates to the polls and ratings feature on WordPress.com that you may have already noticed. Ratings on front page There is now an option in the ratings settings to…
Feb 4th
January 2010
3 posts
Post by Email Wrapup →
Since our Post by Email feature opened last year the emails have been coming in fast and furious. Here’s a wrap-up of some of the latest improvements. Bigger attachments We like to see…
Jan 28th
Vox Importer →
Thinking of moving your blog from Vox.com to WordPress.com? You are not alone. We’ve noticed that several people are dissatisfied with the service and want to move their blog elsewhere. A lot…
Jan 28th
WordPress Personas for Firefox →
Last week Mozilla released Firefox 3.6, the latest and greatest version of their open source Web browser. To mark the occasion, we worked with designer Chad Pugh to create a couple of brand…
Jan 27th
November 2009
9 posts
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 U.S. 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 →
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 already packs a big punch. …
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 coming soon to a blog near you (literally!). Have you ever wondered where in…
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
Happy Birthday Firefox →
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…
Nov 9th
rssCloud Update →
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…
Nov 5th
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…
Nov 4th
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…
Nov 3rd
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…
Oct 24th
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…
Oct 21st
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,…
Oct 20th
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…
Oct 18th
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…
Oct 8th
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
Oct 8th
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…
Oct 6th
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…
Oct 5th
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…
Oct 2nd