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 7th
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 20th
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
3 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 15th
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 14th
Yahoo! App and 360 Importer →
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…
Jun 5th
May 2009
11 posts
Mutsen in Malawi →
May 20th
Nog eentje om het af te leren: http://bit.ly/4VWzQ
May 20th
Announcing VideoPress.com →
The tasty new logo We’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…
May 16th
Comment Reply via Email Improvements →
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…
May 15th
Comment Search →
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. …
May 14th
New stats charts →
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…
May 14th
Post by Email →
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…
May 12th
Get HD WordPress Video with VideoPress →
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…
May 11th
Stats in your time zone →
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…
May 9th
April Wrap-Up →
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…
May 9th
Add YouTube and Polls to Comments →
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…
May 7th
April 2009
6 posts
April Showers Bring A Fresh New Theme →
Automatticians in the Bay Area were convinced it was summer this past week, when it rose above 90 Fahrenheit (about 32 Celsius) and they headed to the freezers to stick their heads in. Now…
Apr 27th
WP.com →
Want to see a cool trick? Open up a new browser tab and type “wp.com” into the address bar. Whoa! It just redirected you to WordPress.com. I could do that all day. Yes it’s true, …
Apr 25th
Comment Reply Via Email: Open To All →
Thanks to the many users who have been testing the comment reply via email feature we are now ready to open it up to all WordPress.com users. Here’s a quick refresher video on how it works:
Apr 23rd
TED - Ideas worth spreading →
There are many sources to keep yourself informed about the newest innovations and the most fascinating ideas of our time, but no written word can express these ideas in the way the people…
Apr 14th
Instant Findability →
Search engines are the trade winds of the internet. Like the explorers of the sailing age, intrepid web searchers set out to enrich themselves, their ultimate destination the ultimate mystery….
Apr 10th
March Wrap-Up →
In March we brought you P2, an awesome theme perfect for short-form and group blogging, made with love by Automatticians. Next, version 1.21 of the WordPress for iPhone app hit the iTunes…
Apr 2nd
March 2009
4 posts
Bring Twitter to Your Blog →
Have you become addicted to telling the world what you’re up to in 140 characters or less? If so, we’ve launched a feature that you’ll love: a Twitter widget for your sidebar. Now you can…
Mar 26th
P2: The New Prologue →
Last year around this time, we introduced Prologue, a short-form blog theme that works like Twitter for a group. This year we bring you P2, the cooler, faster, sleeker, 2009 version of…
Mar 10th
apreski op winterberg  →
Mar 7th
February Wrap-Up →
February was a good month for us, production-wise. We brought you a new theme, a new and improved LiveJournal import tool, and threaded comments. Elsewhere, Automattic launched …
Mar 3rd
February 2009
48 posts
Retweeting @guidosenff: Cool. Straatverlichting aanzetten met een SMS. http://tinyurl.com/aeo9bo Werkte het ook maar voor het op groen z …
Feb 25th
Groningen dimt alle straatlantaarns! Een besparing die gelijk staat aan het jaarlijkse energieverbruik van 300 huishoudens.http://is.gd/kOph
Feb 25th
In tijden van een crisis toch lekkere wijn drinken kan! Je hoeft niet over te gaan op de pakken wijn van de Aldi. http://www.mutsmee.nl
Feb 24th
muts achterstevoren mee →
Feb 24th
Hanry  →
Feb 24th
Red de wereld met 2 vingers in je neus en je Muts op! http://www.mutsmee.nl
Feb 23rd
Stop de onnodige verzending van de papieren Telefoongids! http://www.stopdetelefoongids.nl
Feb 23rd
Cynthia Mutst voor de Westminster Abbey →
Feb 23rd
Freya Mutst Mee voor de Big Ben →
Feb 23rd
mutsmuts →
Feb 22nd