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Go Get A Blavatar
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Today’s post is dedicated to Chuck Norris: the man, the myth, the legend, and the star in our demo of a brand-new feature: Blavatars.
“What-atars?” you say. Blavatars! Blog + avatars.
As the incomparable Nikolay explains in the video below, your blavatar automatically becomes your favicon: the little icon that displays next to your blog’s URL in […]
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Thanksgiving 2008
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From us at WordPress to you in the States: Happy Thanksgiving!
Today, we’ll be passing the turkey and stuffing, and sharing what we’re thankful for. Such as…
Jane: “Puppies and rainbows.”
Heather: “Good friends, good food, and good websites.”
Matt: “The internet.”
What about you?
What has motivated, inspired, enlivened, awakened, and otherwise comforted and thrilled you in 2008? […]
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The Votes Are In
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Here’s how you voted in our U.S. Presidential Election poll yesterday:
Barack Obama and Joe Biden: 69%
John McCain and Sarah Palin: 24%
Ralph Nadar and Matt Gonzalez: 3%
Robert Barr and Wayne Root: 2%
Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente: 1%
Charles Baldwin and Darrell Castle: 1%
And here are the actual results, as of 12 p.m. PST today:
Barack Obama and Joe […]
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Cast Your Virtual Ballot
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We’re flexing our polling muscles today and conducting a little experiment in the process.
The national election for the 44th President of the United States is in full swing, and we want to know how you’re voting.
Take a minute to answer this poll and tell us who you’re voting for. Or, if you don’t live in […]
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How to Account for Daylight Savings on Your Blog
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As you know if you’ve ever checked out your stats, your WordPress.com blog is aligned with the UTC time zone. UTC is similar to GMT, except that it doesn’t get changed twice a year for daylight savings. This method allows us to keep the stats database lean and fast. That translates into free stats for […]
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National Novel Writing Month: You Can Do It!
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November is just around the corner. Y’know what that means? National Novel Writing Month! (NaNoWriMo for short.)
NaNoWriMo challenges you to write throughout November, piecing together a narrative until, voila! You’ve got a 175-page, 50,000-word novel on your hands.
That may sound daunting, but it’s totally doable! In fact, more than 15,000 people did it last year.
I […]
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The WordPress App for LinkedIn
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Today we’re happy to announce the launch of the WordPress App for LinkedIn, the largest online network for professionals.
The WordPress App for LinkedIn helps you share ideas and updates with your LinkedIn network, keeping your trusted contacts in the loop, effortlessly.
To add the WordPress App to your LinkedIn account, visit the LinkedIn Application Directory. Select […]
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Comment Reply Via Email: Closed Beta!
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Today we have a special treat for those of you who are quick to act: closed beta testing for comment reply by email. Check out this video to see how it works, and to hear about another upcoming goody:
Comment reply by email makes replying to comments super-easy. Just enable e-mail notifications for comments as you […]
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The Journalist, Revised
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If you admire clean and classic journalism style, you probably became a fast fan of The Journalist theme. Well today The Journalist got a bit of a makeover, care of Lucian Marin, that might make you fall in love even more:
The bar that contains your tags, categories and post info is now more subtle, and […]
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Protect Your Blog with SSL
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As kids, we all loved Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster. (Who couldn’t relate to a guy who loves snacks?!) But now there’s another CookieMonster on the street, and he’s not so nice.
This CookieMonster is a toolkit that tricks your browser into handing over sensitive information, and it’s one of a number of new tactics used to […]
