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My World Through a Lens
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The Image Widget, Plus News from Support
Last month, the Support team (also known as Happiness Engineers) got together to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the features and resources you need. Out of that meetup came a number of improvements and features, like the RSS Links Widget, introduced earlier this month. Another is the Imag …
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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. Well bring more updates to you over the coming weeks and months. One of the items we worked on is a widget we call RSS Links, which allows you to display text and/or …
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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 were all perfect writers or that we just forget to run the spell checker. Im in the latter camp. I dont blame you spell checker …
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RSS in the Clouds
Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and its a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader or Bloglines. You may not know what RSS is but chances are people are using it to read your blog. We track over 50,000,000 p …
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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 Engineers are putting our heads together to churn out some big ideas, well be closing our email support system. Su …
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New Theme: Sandbox 1.6.1
Sandbox 1.6.1 is now available to all WordPress.com blogs. Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 youll also find the older Sandbox versions. Weve left them intact. If youve been using them, dont worry, they havent changed. However, we do urge you to check out 1.6.1. Sandbox is a skeleton theme for WordPress. Thou …
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WP.me — shorten your links
Check out this address: http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten If you visit it, youll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that its a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a …
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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 service to distribute tracks through their blogs and connect with their fans. Weve received many requests from Wor …
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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. Were always doing what we can to bring you the cool new stuff you want, so now youve got it, too! iNove for WordPress.com: Some handy features of th …
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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 Categories, Tag Cloud, and Archives widgets do their parts, but weve come up with an extra little something that …

