Just a few days ago, I was trying to decide what to do with my significantly neglected WordPress.com blog, and I decided that I was going to start a food blog “just like everyone else on WordPress.com.” Well, it looks like I wasn’t alone in that far-reaching generalization. Just in time for the food-filled fall and winter holidays, WordPress.com has launched the simply awesome and hunger-inspiring FoodPress. FoodPress features the best food-related posts from WordPress.com’s network of over 14 million blogs. The posts are hand-picked “by scouring food-related tag pages like food, recipes, baking, cocktails, and more,” so don’t forget to tag your posts! I hope that FoodPress is the first in a long line of GenrePressing WordPress.com blogs, and I hope that technology and photography are next. What do you think of FoodPress, and what kind of GenrePressing blogs do you want to see next? P.S. GenrePress – you […]
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The WordPress mobile app for Nokia has been released and is now live on the Ovi Store. Currently the app’s listing mentions that it only supports the N97 Mini and X6, but the development team is working on getting the app approved for “Symbian3 devices such as N8, C6, C7 and more.” The Nokia app joins the ranks of the other popular WordPress mobile apps for Android, Blackberry, and iOS. Do you use an N97 Mini and X6, and will you be installing the new mobile app?
[Continue Reading...]The WordPress development team has applied to be a part of Google’s Code-in contest to encourage eager high school and secondary school students to contribute WordPress’ future. The development team is currently compiling a task list and looking for suggestions from the community, which can be left as comments here. Do you plan to be a part of Google’s Code-in contest, and will you claiming any of the WordPress tasks this year?
[Continue Reading...]The latest version of BuddyPress, WordPress’ powerful “social network in a box” plugin, has been released. This long-awaited update improves compatibility with WordPress 3.0, adds some minor tweaks to the base theme, and resolves 91 issues! Now that Paul Gibbs and Boone Gorges have joined the team, the next major release is on track for the end of 2010. BuddyPress has been rapidly building its user base since 1.0 was released in April of 2009. Have you built something with BuddyPress? If so, we’d love to hear about it!
[Continue Reading...]Automattic recently appeared on ICANN’s list of accredited registrars as ID #1531, meaning that the company is now a full-fledged accredited domain registrar. WordPress.com is one of Automattic’s most popular services, and domain mapping is one of their most popular upgrades, so this is potentially yet another game-changing move for the company. According to Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg, Automattic will continue to partner with GoDaddy until they have finished building tools to take advantage of their new registrar status over the next few months.
[Continue Reading...]Work is well underway on WordPress 3.1 and a quick update detailing the status of some of the new features as we approach the November 1st code freeze has been posted. The following features will more than likely be included in WordPress 3.1: Post Formats – “Allow denoting a post as a certain format. Some example formats are aside, gallery, link, quote. This will allow themes to style these posts according to format.” (ready to go, awaiting decision to include a UI that themes can enable) Theme Search/Filter – “Lift some of the search and browse ideas from the WordPress.com themes.php.” (still in first draft) Internal linking – “. . . you click a button for an internal link . . . and it allows you to search for a post or browse a list of existing content by title, date, author, etc. and select it for inclusion.” (patch provided) […]
[Continue Reading...]WordPress.com has just launched a new text messaging feature. Users can now do a variety of blog management tasks via the new 77377 (PRESS) short code. By simply activating the service at Settings/Text Messaging in your admin panel, you can receive notifications when users are added or removed, and when the theme and privacy settings have changed. Users who choose to upgrade the service for only $20/year will be able to add extra protection to their blog via an SMS-enabled two-step login process, receive new comment notifications with the ability to moderate or reply via text message, receive new post notifications, and publish a post of 160 characters or less. This feature is only available in the USA, though the WordPress.com team will look into expanding the service to other countries if the feature proves popular enough. As always, standard text messaging and data rates apply. What do you think of […]
[Continue Reading...]The WordPress.com team has now made it even easier to leave your WordPress.com blog for a self-hosted WordPress blog. The new offsite redirect upgrade allows you to easily redirect your blogname.wordpress.com blog and all of its permalinks to your new domain. The previous redirection method was a five-step process that had a tendency to cause some confusion during implementation. Now, all you need to do is export your blog, purchase the offsite redirect upgrade for $12/year (the same price as the previous redirection method), and enter your new domain name. Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s one and only Chief BBQ Taste Tester, highlighted the importance of the new offsite redirection upgrade, stating “the easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.” The psychology certainly makes sense to me. I’d be less tempted to make a panic-influenced exit if I knew it was easy to leave […]
[Continue Reading...]If you’re a WordPress.com user, you may have noticed that your stats received a significant facelift today. The Flash-powered line chart has been replaced by an interactive Javascript-powered bar chart and the module layout is now fully customizable. The new design was a team effort, though some credit should definitely go to Nick Momrik for handling the new chart and a good majority of the extra work, Joen Asmussen for the overall design, and Matt Thomas for keeping everyone on track. Currently, the new stats interface is only for WordPress.com users, but the WordPress.com Stats Plugin for self-installed WordPress blogs will be updated once they have all the kinks worked out. Unfortunately, my WordPress.com blog is private, so I really don’t have enough stats to truly test the new interface. What do you think of the new WordPress.com Stats interface?
[Continue Reading...]About the Author
- James
James began using WordPress in 2004. Being new to WordPress (and blogging in general), he quickly found the WordPress Support Forums and basically never left. James currently resides in sunny Southern California, where he enjoys bringing happiness to millions of WordPress.com users.
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