May 15, 2009

WordPress.com News Since opening up the comment reply via email feature to everyone last month we’ve been continuing to improve it. Here are some of changes that have gone in during the last few weeks:Better detection of email auto responders / vacation messagesAdded a reminder to the bottom of comment notification emails about the reply via (Read More)

May 09, 2009

Identity and Privacy Blog In April we introduced Instant Findability, TED video embeds, a springtime theme, a cool new domain, and reply-by-email for comments, now open to all. A pretty busy month, with more awesome features on the way, plus WordCamp San Francisco, on May 30. If you’re in town or want a reason to be, be sure to register soon. We’ve (Read More)

May 07, 2009

WordPress.com News Some have you may have noticed we’ve been experimenting with a new feature in comments here on WordPress.com, namely that you can now embed YouTube videos and PollDaddy polls directly in a comment.Although shortcodes are great and we’ll continue to support and encourage them for comments the simplest possible interface seem (Read More)

May 08, 2009

WordPress.com News When we sat down at an Austin cafe in 2005 and wrote the stats system, Matt and I had no idea what we were getting into. He created the databases and drew the little smiley face while I wrote the code. We had milk and cookies. It was really cute. We were naïve!I swear it was Matt’s idea to store stats data as daily summarie (Read More)

May 11, 2009

WordPress.com News You may have noticed that videos around here have been getting higher and higher quality.I don’t just mean the cool content from WordPress.tv, but the video player and video/audio quality itself.We’ve rewritten how videos work here on WordPress.com from the ground-up and taken inspiration from the great products at Vimeo an (Read More)

May 12, 2009

WordPress.com News Have you ever wanted to fire off a post from your phone, Blackberry, Outlook at work…? Following on from Comment Reply Via Email we’re introducing our latest feature to make it even easier to publish to your blog: Post by Email.Maybe you’re on holiday and want to show your journey. Maybe you’ve captured something with your (Read More)

May 15, 2009

WordPress.com News The tasty new logoWe’ve been busy lately here at WordPress.com — we’ve had an announcement of a new or updated feature for you every day this week. Today, you’re getting a two-fer!Earlier this week, we announced VideoPress, the great new video feature for WordPress.com. Now VideoPress has its own home on the web at VideoPre (Read More)

May 14, 2009

Identity and Privacy Blog You guys are generating an amazing amount of feedback on your blogs. Matt mentioned in the April Wrap-Up that there were 8.6 million comments! Comments are flying in every second of the day.And have you ever had one of those blog posts that was good, but the real action was in the comments? The blog post is only half the (Read More)

May 13, 2009

Identity and Privacy Blog If you’ve looked at your WordPress.com blog stats today, you might have noticed the charts look a little different. We’ve replaced the old proprietary chart object with Open Flash Chart, an open source alternative.  Charts now look like this:(Though I can’t guarantee you’ll see numbers like that).All the old charts are stil (Read More)

Jun 05, 2009

WordPress.com News We’ve got two Yahoo! related news items today.The first is that we’ve launched a Yahoo! 360 importer (listed in your admin screens under Tools → Import) to make migration from 360 to WordPress.com super easy. Just upload the Yahoo! 360 export ZIP file, and we’ll do the rest. Yahoo! will be shutting down their 360 service s (Read More)

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