The easiest (and cheapest) way to get a WordPress.com invite is to fill out your email on the front page notify form. We’re going to start randomly selecting people from that list starting today and will be adding a few more almost daily. Now would be a good time to check your email filters andContinue reading “WordPress.com Invites”
Author Archives: Matt
New Dashboard
The content on the Dashboard has been significantly redone to give you something to enjoy this weekend. Thanks to some code-fu from Andy we are now tracking a lot of interesting stats from across all the WordPress.com blogs. The first thing you’ll notice is we’re highlighting the top blogs of the day across the network.Continue reading “New Dashboard”
LiveSearch and others
Eric discovered the new LiveSearch feature, which has been rolled out for a couple of themes and will be tweaked over the next few weeks. Purple Lilacs found the new admin bar. Miklb did too. John Roberts (of News.com) likes the new post screen. Kathy found a bug, but we’ll fix that soon. 🙂 IfContinue reading “LiveSearch and others”
More Invites
If you’re a current user of WordPress.com and you’ve run out of invites, let me know. I may be able to bump your number back up a bit. We’re also looking into ways we can grant invites after a certain amount of usage or time automatically, but for now just let us know how manyContinue reading “More Invites”
Admin Bar
We’re experimenting with something new, now when you’re logged in across WordPress.com you should see a blue “admin bar” across the top of your blog and others with a few handy links, including “Edit this page” if you’re on your own site. This is only shown to people who are logged in. I’m curious whatContinue reading “Admin Bar”
Get Interviewed
Lorelle is interviewing WordPress.com users, even though there’s only a few so far. If you like the idea of being interviewed, you should leave a comment on her post.
A few updates
It’s Labor day so we’ve been working extra hard for you. Here are a few of the latest improvements on WordPress.com: Managing links works better. You can now use extended entries with the “more” WYSIWYG button. You now get less generic profile information on registration. Invites are a lot smarter — it prefiles a lotContinue reading “A few updates”
Database Servers
Just came in, they have built-in pallets.
Cool Fade
If you’re a WordPress.com user (or a 1.6 tester) run (don’t walk) to your “Manage” section and delete a few posts, categories, comments, etc. Notice the alternating backgrounds. That is all. 🙂
Safari Support
I just wanted to post a quick clarification that Safari is not quite up to snuff for all the things we’re doing yet on WordPress.com. Where possible we will try to make it as elegant an experience as we can, but the Webkit engine is still evolving pretty rapidly and it may be a releaseContinue reading “Safari Support”
New Feedback
For those of you already on WordPress.com, I finally got some time to pretty up the feedback form a bit. It was already all hip and AJAXy thanks to Donncha, and hopefully now it’s a little friendlier too. 🙂
Beam me up Scotty
As we boldly go where no blogging service has gone before, it seems we don’t have enough power! As in electricity to physically power all of the new hardware we have. I asked if hamsters on wheels would help things out but they seem to think the power requirements are even beyond that. It’s notContinue reading “Beam me up Scotty”
Matt on Not-WordPress, mostly photos 