February Wrap-up
2008-03-02 22:02:21
February is the hardest month for me to spell, and also the shortest of the year, but it seemed like as good as any to start our wrap-ups back up with:
245,329 blogs were created.
432,478 new users joined.
1,920,593 file uploads.
2,814,893 posts and 996 thousand new pages.
4,961,330 comments.
3,813,432 logins.
540,799,534 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 304,499,648 on self-hosted [...]
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Summarize More
2008-02-08 01:18:51
Here is another feature from the “meant to fully support that a long time ago” department.
Summarized stats are now available for referrers, search terms, and clicks.
Many people find the new results to be longer and more enjoyable. Your experience may vary.
Oh, and a tip for the truly stats-obsessed: we don’t update the database more than [...]
Prologue Gets an Update
2008-01-30 12:22:49
The Prologue
introduction earlier this week provided us with a lot of feed back. Based on that feed back we’ve made a few changes:
The front page now shows a stream of recent updates instead of one update per user
Pages now have their own template and look much better
Avatars are only shown once for sequential [...]
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Introducing Prologue
2008-01-28 14:06:20
We’re fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more, like a way for each of us to share short messages about what we’re doing or working on internally, or private messages between groups of folks.
So last [...]
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, Introducing
Free Space to Three Gigabytes
2008-01-21 02:56:54
Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you’ll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we’re always thinking about how the improvements we make to the foundation of the site will allow us to build more interesting things on top of it.
Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — [...]
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Thank you for your vote
2008-01-20 00:14:10
Thanks in large part to your support, Automattic and WordPress won both of the prizes it was nominated for, WordPress winning Most Likely to Succeed and Toni Schneider of Automattic winning Best CEO. Woot!
Like I said from stage, to us the awards aren’t an accomplishment, they’re a challenge. You believe in us, and it’s our [...]
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Akismet Interface
2008-01-17 11:11:38
We’ve got two improvements to the Akismet
interface for you guys today.
The first is on the spam screen, there are now tabs that filter by what type of spam it is, namely a comment, pingback, or trackback. This allows you to scan more quickly through pingbacks and trackbacks, especially.
(Remember that just because it’s linking [...]
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Feed Stats Strikes Back
2008-01-11 18:45:01
You may remember Feed Stats
: the beloved feature that we retired last Spring. Well, Donncha came up with something even cooler: a way to track syndicated views on each post.
By “syndicated views” we mean the number of times somebody viewed your post via a feed. We’ll call views taking place on your blog “on-site views”.
We [...]
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Vote for Us?
2008-01-08 06:32:23
There’s lots of talk of voting going on right now in America, but we’re here to talk about the best type of voting: the kind you can do early and often.
Automattic and WordPress are up for two awards at the upcoming Crunchies, Most Likely to Succeed and Best CEO. If you like the service you [...]
WordPress Hoodies
2007-12-29 12:48:50
A least for those of your in the Northern hemisphere, it’s been a little chilly recently. If you’re like me you’re thinking, “WordPress keeps my servers running hot, couldn’t it warm me too?”
Yes, it can.
You can now buy hip WordPress hoodies in our store so when you’re not blogging you can loiter around the neighborhood [...]
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Book Deals
2008-04-01 11:49:37
Stuff White People Like and I Can Has Cheezburger have been topping our Blogs of the Day charts for some time. Now the New York Times reports that both of those blogs have received book deals. “Stuff” apparently got a $300k advance. The books based on their blogs are due out this Fall. Congratulations to [...]
New Dashboard Design and March Wrap-up
2008-04-04 16:44:16
Today we’re pretty excited to launch a new dashboard design to everyone here on WordPress.com.
If you have a few minutes, try clicking around and exploring the new layout and features. It’ll be unfamiliar at first, but like riding a bike you’ll find yourself picking up new habits and cruising down the road in no time.
Those [...]
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, March
Search WordPress.com
2008-04-14 15:02:47
We’ve heard this search thing is going to be big some day.
Google or Yahoo are great for finding general stuff on the web at large, but sometimes you want to find real posts from real people, and blogs are great for that. There are blog search engines, but when you search for “kittens” you’re as [...]
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Possibly an Announcement
2008-04-25 12:59:33
Blog posts can be a total tease. You get to the end and you’re ready for more, but all that’s there is maybe some post navigation, and if you’re lucky a few comments. If your appetite was whetted by the awesome post you just read there’s no place for you to go, except maybe to [...]
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WordPress.com in Brazil
2008-04-30 04:41:46
Given the recent news that WordPress.com might be blocked in Brazil
, we would like to share some information about the case and our response.
A Brazilian judge ordered that one blog hosted at WordPress.com should be blocked in Brazil. A local ISP association mentioned it would do so via IP address blocking, something that would compromise [...]
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