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My World Through a Lens
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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 …
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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 your blog as your own! If youre not familiar with a Gravatar its a graphical representation used to identify yourself i …
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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 feature that was enabled on WordPress.com last week has really started to see some use. Over 100k blog posts, pa …
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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 source core product (like VideoPress, built-in polls, etc.). Because WordPress.com gets new features implem …
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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 donations for the charity of your choice. July will bring more feature updates, and more of the themes and customi …
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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 great success! Theres also NaBloPoMo, which has nothing to do with post-modernism, but with blogging! It sta …
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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. Weve teamed up with SocialVibe, and now by adding the SocialVibe widget to your blog, you are able to earn donations for t …
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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 zone, the VideoPress upgrade (with HD!), post by email, new stats charts, comment search, improved comment reply …
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Yahoo! App and 360 Importer
Weve got two Yahoo! related news items today. The first is that weve 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 well do the rest. Yahoo! will be shutt …
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Announcing VideoPress.com
The tasty new logo Weve been busy lately here at WordPress.com weve had an announcement of a new or updated feature for you every day this week. Today, youre getting a two-fer! Earlier this week, we announced VideoPress, the great new video feature for WordPress.com. Now VideoPress has its own home …

