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Author Archives: Matt
Add to Blogroll
We just added a new feature to the admin bar, the blue thing you see at the top of WordPress.com when you’re logged in. “Add to Blogroll” does pretty much what you’d expect, it adds the blog you’re currently looking at to your blogroll. It’ll redirect you back to where you were and the linkContinue reading “Add to Blogroll”
RSD Support
For some of you this might be a big deal: we’ve added RSD support to all WordPress.com blogs (and in WordPress itself). We also have some pretty cool WYSIWYG enhancements coming from Andy, so stay tuned.
Scoble Sucks (and WordPress RSS)
Not really, but I’m just trying to get in Memeorandum. 😉 (Fortunately the trick only seems to work on Sunday nights.) It’s never good to wake up in the morning, fire up your aggregator, and see “WordPress.com” and “sucks” in the same headline, but WordPress.com-hosted Robert Scoble has declared that our RSS feeds suck. ThereContinue reading “Scoble Sucks (and WordPress RSS)”
Back to the Future
There was a catastrophic hard drive failure on the central database server very early this morning, Donncha was on the ball and switched all the traffic to a recent backup so most things would work while we investigated the hardware failure. This means that an old version of your site was shown for a fewContinue reading “Back to the Future”
New Datacenter and Caching
As we announced on the dashboard, on Friday around 1 AM we moved WordPress.com to a new datacenter and a new set of servers. A month or so ago a similar transition didn’t go so well so we tested things very heavily before the change and thanks to the hard work of Donncha and RyanContinue reading “New Datacenter and Caching”
Announcing Akismet
So for all of you who were wondering what the API keys are for, go check out Akismet, a new solution to comment spam. Of course this is just the first of several things in the oven. 🙂 Of course on WordPress.com we’re already handling all your spam problems for you, so no need toContinue reading “Announcing Akismet”
Flock out of the bag
We’re seeing a lfew new Flockers around these parts. As some of you may know, WordPress.com is the first choice blogging engine inside of Flock. Anyway folks, welcome to the party. 🙂
Blogging from Flock
This is another test post from Flock. It seems a lot more polished than those 0.2 days. Technorati Tags: flock, the mully Update: It produces bad HTML, but so does everybody. It seems faster than Firefox, but that could be because I use Firefox 1.0.x and this is based on 1.5.
API Keys
Savvy users of WordPress.com will notice something new on your profile page. What’s it for? Time will tell. Let’s just say WordPress.com is going to become a lot more useful for people who already have WordPress blogs. Cheers to Donncha for rolling this out, as I’m still mostly incapacitated right now.
Well that’s better
The slowness and problems of the last day or two have been resolved. Some of the new hardware that was set up for us had some configuration and OS issues that were causing a ton of errors, but that’s no longer an issue and things are back to normal. Please use the feedback form ifContinue reading “Well that’s better”
Custom Header
I switched my site to using the default WP template (Kubrick) but with the new custom header functionality Donncha just turned on to “pimp my blog.”
