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My World Through a Lens
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Comment Reply via Email Improvements
Since opening up the comment reply via email feature to everyone last month weve been continuing to improve it. Here are some of changes that have gone in during the last few weeks: Better detection of email auto responders / vacation messages Added a reminder to the bottom of comment notification …
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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. And have you ever had one of those blog posts that was good, but the real action was in the comments? The …
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New stats charts
If youve looked at your WordPress.com blog stats today, you might have noticed the charts look a little different. Weve replaced the old proprietary chart object with Open Flash Chart, an open source alternative. Charts now look like this: (Though I cant guarantee youll see numbers like that). All …
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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 were introducing our latest feature to make it even easier to publish to your blog: Post by Email. Maybe youre on holiday and want to show your journey. Maybe youve captur …
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Get HD WordPress Video with VideoPress
You may have noticed that videos around here have been getting higher and higher quality. I dont just mean the cool content from WordPress.tv, but the video player and video/audio quality itself. Weve rewritten how videos work here on WordPress.com from the ground-up and taken inspiration from the g …
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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 awesome features on the way, plus WordCamp San Francisco, on May 30. If youre in town or want a reason to be, be sur …
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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 code. We had milk and cookies. It was really cute. We were naïve! I swear it was Matts idea to store sta …
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Add YouTube and Polls to Comments
Some of you may have noticed weve 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 comment. Although shortcodes are great and well continue to support and encourage them for comments the simplest p …
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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 involved in them can. Having the brightest minds of our time talking about the things they love and that changed …
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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 we headed to the freezers to stick our heads in. Now its back to something much more reasonable and the northern hemisphere is happy to proclaim that its spring! To ki …
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