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October Wrap-Up
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In October, we celebrated our first billion-impression month, and continued plugging away on WordPress 2.7 — along with a couple of other fun projects, to be announced.
Here are last month’s stats:
323,786 blogs were created.
343,832 new users joined.
4,085,148 file uploads.
1995.86 gigabytes of new files.
531 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
8,862,195 comments.
1,309,045 logins.
1,088,583,200 pageviews […]
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PollDaddy!
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When you login to write a new post, you’ll notice a new icon above the text editor next to the “Add media” section: an orange lollipop.
Click that icon, and you’ll be greeted with a new polling feature — the result of our integration with the newest member of the Automattic family, the PollDaddy service. Here’s […]
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September Wrap-Up
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This month we grew not just in blogs and users, but in company size. As I mentioned in a previous post, the team from Intense Debate is now a part of Automattic. We’re also trucking along with Version 2.7, and listening to your input from the two design surveys opened up this month.
Here are the […]
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Automattic Acquires Intense Debate
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I’m pleased to announce that Intense Debate is now an Automattic joint.
Intense Debate is a richly interactive comment system that includes cool features like threading, reply by email, voting, reputation, and global profiles.
For more details on the product and our plans, check out my blog, Toni’s blog, and Jon’s blog at Intense Debate.
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Go (Even More) Ad-Free
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About two years ago, we announced that we were running some experimental Google ads on post and tag pages. It was an announcement that was necessary because, as it turned out, they were so discrete you didn’t even notice them.
As we said in our original post:
The ad code tries hard not to intrude or […]
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August Wrap-Up
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This month I had the pleasure of meeting many of you at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, WordCamp South Africa, and now WordCamp Philippines. It’s been a blast, and there are many more to come. Check out the schedule to see if there’s a WordCamp near you.
Here are the stats for August:
286,860 blogs were created.
298,655 […]
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WordCamp San Francisco 2008
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It’s hard to believe, but it’s already time for our annual WordCamp San Francisco conference.
This year’s speaker lineup is, how to put it? Kickass. Not to mention swiftly growing. Automatticians and other awesome WordPress users will tell you all about:
The future of WordPress
How to be a better blogger
Increasing traffic
Fun with APIs
And tons more.
Be the first […]
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July Wrap-Up
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July was an awesome month. We released our Open Source iPhone app and rolled out updates on WordPress.com in tandem with version 2.6 on WordPress.org. Here’s the stats rundown:
257,163 blogs were created.
271,427 new users joined.
3,110,479 file uploads
About 1,381 gigabytes of new files.
395 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
6,245,424 comments.
4,868,359 logins.
812,287,538 pageviews on WordPress.com, and […]
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WordPress 2.6
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I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever […]
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WordPress 2.6
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I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever […]
