ShareWordPress.com announced today that you can enable new sharing options for your posts. It is called “Publicize.” Here’s how it works. After you publish a post, you can go enable the Publicize options (Settings » Sharing). Next, you can choose which services you want to connect to your blog. Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! Updates, and MSN …
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ShareWhoa there! WordPress.com launched a premium themes marketplace? Yes, yes they did. Matt Mullenweg brought this idea to light just 4 years ago, and it’s finally a reality. To kick off the launch of the premium marketplace, the Automattic team has selected two themes. Headlines and Shelf. You can view both themes on WordPress.com as …
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ShareIn recent news, Toni Schneider announced yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt that Microsoft’s Live Spaces blogs will be converted over to being powered by the wordpress.com platform over the next six months. That’s 30 million blogs that will be converted over to wordpress.com, adding to the existing 26 million users that wordpress.com already has. What kind …
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Share2009 was the year for WordPress.com. It’s nothing new to hear about the tremendous popularity of WordPress.com, but the proof is in the pudding! There was a significant higher number of blogs created in 2009, more importantly was the expanding adoption rate. Who said blogs are dying? One of the WordPress.com staff members was nice …
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ShareWordPress.com isn’t perfect, mortal just like any other network. Today, there has been a flurry of people talking about wordpress.com being down, and for a fact, it is down right now. This has been confirmed by WordPress.com staff: [tweeted]http://twitter.com/wordpressdotcom/status/9302612517[/tweeted] UPDATE at 2:55pm PST: I will update this story as news progress. [tweeted]http://twitter.com/wordpressdotcom/status/9305526818[/tweeted] UPDATE at 3:16pm …
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ShareWordPress.com will not to be left behind in the search engine update game. As of last week, WordPress.com blogs have a great new feature to keep those engines up to date. The new functionality sends an instant ping to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask to ensure they know you’ve added or removed a page or …
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ShareThe most recent site to be accepted into WordPress VIP hosting is TechCrunch. This is a huge tech source that gets millions of uniques per month, so this is a huge win for the WordPress.com VIP hosting team. I checked with one of my sources on the WordPress VIP team and they confirmed that it …
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