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...
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...
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...
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
6 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...
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...
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,...
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 source core product (like VideoPress, built-in polls, etc.). Because WordPress.com gets new features implemented as they are developed, we don’t usually talk too much about big version releases. For...
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 donations for the charity of your choice. July will bring more feature updates, and more of the themes and customizations you’ve been asking for. We’re listening.
Here are the stats for June:
388,580 blogs were...
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 great success!
There’s also NaBloPoMo, which has nothing to do with post-modernism, but with blogging! It stands for National Blog Posting Month.
It’s an even more fitting occasion for posting regularly...
June 2009
2 posts
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 SocialVibe, and now by adding the SocialVibe widget to your blog, you are able to earn donations for the charity of your choice by getting sponsored by a brand that appeals to you.
Each time someone...
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 zone, the VideoPress upgrade (with HD!), post by email, new stats charts, comment search, improved comment reply by email, and VideoPress.com.
May was also the month for our largest-ever WordCamp San...
May 2009
1 post
School has been crazy, and stuff. So yea. I started a WordPress MU site, at radteknowlogy.com
April 2009
2 posts
So, yesterday I bought an HP Mini 1000 series notebook netbook. I have had some time to play around with everything, get used to the stuff, and install my essential internet software. ( and then some).
Specs: Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz x2. 1 GB of ram (soon to be bumped to two). 60GB HDD (No,I didn’t go with the solid stated because I didn’t feal like limiting the usage. And, also, I...
They just really are pissing me off. I get a new M3A78-T motherboard for my computer. It works good for a little while, and then it goes out. I send it to asus, they send it back and changed nothing. It took them three weeks to get this far. Then, I call them, they decide to have me send it back to them again. The first time shipping cost me thirty bucks. They want me to pay the shipping costs...
March 2009
5 posts
Ahh, how I HATE asus. I am on my second motherboard from them, the second being the replacement of the first that went out after a month. The second one I can’t even get to boot once; it is DOA.
It turns out that here in Southern California if you have had AT&T installed or changed subscriptions within the last year or two, then you should have this problem. It turns out that you need to go in through your Mac’s system preferences and changed the DNS settings. This can be found in System Pref> Network> DNS (tab at the top) and then you just add two DNS servers to the list....
I forgot to post the link the last thing, about the mac and the dns and crap. you know.
http://utalk.att.com/utalk/board/message?board.id=HSIA&thread.id=8919&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
Over the last month or… six that I haven’t kept up on this blog has been dedicated to my anger with computer. I have gone through several different issues and problems with my computerS. I think I am officially a mac guy.
I have been playing fable 2 for a couple of weeks now, and have to say that it is probably one of the most intuitive and created games I have ever played. The scenes are beautiful, pre- or on-the-spot rendered, the controls, though could allow for some more freedom and advanced moves, are easy to pick up and only complicated to master. The story line is the best I have ever seen. It is like...
December 2008
1 post
But, what I have a comment on is the whole Steve Jobs thing. I am split between anger and concern. I am concerned for his health, and angered that idiots sold their stock in apple, making my stock go lower.
October 2008
4 posts
Bwahahahaha
Everybody should read this book. It makes you think just how cruel, confused, brilliant and stupid we all are. We know what to do, yet we don’t know what is good for us. We know how to get the job done, but we don’t know the right way. But it leaves you thinking, is a representative government really that much more advanced than a commnist government, or is it somethoing that eventually leads...
Part of what I need to do, is be consistant. I am anything but. And though I tell myself that I will keep posting things, I never remember too until I cant . For example, I’ll remember at two o’clock in the moning, when im half asleep. But, whatever. This is really just testing mobile posting.
Part of what I need to do, is be consistant. I am anything but. And though I tell myself that I will keep posting things, I never remember too until I cant . For example, I’ll remember at two o’clock in the moning, when im half asleep. But, whatever. This is really just testing mobile posting.
September 2008
2 posts
Are you telling me, that the leaders of our economy can’t figure out what they are doing. They said that it was a 100 page document outlining the plan. Orriginally it was only 3, but i am not going to focus on that. Now, I want you to see just how BIG the writing on those 100 pages are. It may seem like a small, but viable, point.
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Just signed up for www.12Seconds.tv Lets see, shall we.
August 2008
6 posts
Project Jing. This is one of those things that would have made many different projects and many different things easier, had I known it was there. Thank you, TechSmith.
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Batman: Dark Knight
I just came from the movie theatre. I have to say, I don’t think it was that outstandingly good. It was a great movie, don’t get me wrong, but it didn’t have that, “Wow, that was an amazing movie” factor about it. I know there are a lot of people who agree, and a lot who disagree with me.
So, in my post before this one, I was complaining about ATT and the problems. I had been having problems with the service3 for about the last month or two with the service cutting out, as well which would cause the internet to go down as well as the T.V. and phone, because all the Uverse services run off of the one Gateway. We have had two different home calls to our house to fix it, and the...
July 2008
4 posts
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I read an article in the LA times. You can read it here. It talks about how there are people in prison who have killed, gotten the chance for parole, and then had it taken away. It raises the question of weather or not people who have murdered other people should be allowed to have parole, and weather or not the justice system is unjust.
There are people, not necessarily the one in the article,...
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I never have an idea of what I want. I really love the Sidekick, but I really want the iPhone. AHH.
“I’m not in your way, you are in mine.”
– ME
June 2008
5 posts
Trying mobile posting.
This will determine if I can use this service.
WatchWe just bought this sand car. At this point, we have pretty much mastered the Wheely, don’t worry. But, this video was approximately 3 hours after we bought the car, even before we got it home. {The car was bought in Las Vegas, and we live near Los Angeles.}
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I want this Laptop.
Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Laptop reviews - CNET Reviews
This is the perfect laptop for me. I really need a new ultra-portable, and this is the one that I will most likely be wanting/getting. I don’t know.
Finals are over, for me
I finished finals this week. I got an A in Biology.
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Finals
Finals this week. Tomorrow I have English, then Algebra II finals. After that, on Wednesday, I have Biology and then History. When I have finished those, I will be done with my Sophomore year of High School.