September 2009
4 posts
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…
Sep 10th
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…
Sep 9th
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…
Sep 8th
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…
Sep 4th
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…
Aug 27th
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,…
Aug 21st
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…
Aug 14th
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 …
Aug 14th
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…
Aug 13th
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…
Aug 5th
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 …
Jul 30th
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…
Jul 23rd
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…
Jul 17th
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…
Jul 8th
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…
Jul 3rd
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…
Jul 2nd
June 2009
2 posts
SocialVibe →
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…
Jun 16th
May Wrap-Up →
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…
Jun 15th
April 2009
10 posts
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“if we cannot do big things, we can do small things with great love”
–  Dallin H. Oaks during 179th LDS General Conference, April 2009
Apr 5th
“prayer is the provider of spiritual strength, it is the passport to peace”
– Thomas S. Monson during 179th LDS General Conference, April 2009
Apr 5th
Apr 5th
“at times we mourn, but we do not mourn as those without hope.”
– said Rafael E. Pino during 179th LDS General Conference, April 2009
Apr 4th
“there are cycles of prosperity, pride, destruction, humility, and then...”
– said M. Russell Ballard during 179th LDS General Conference, April 2009 My favorite book about cycles after the Book of Mormon, is The Fourth Turning
Apr 4th
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ListenLDS General Conference and a tweet I was sent...
Apr 4th