Susie Blackmon Aggregated

    5 Nov 2009


    Two months ago we turned on support for rssCloud on WordPress.com. Today we’re announcing some improvements.

    Initially rssCloud limited update pings to the IP address that made the notification request. To get around this a domain parameter was suggested, that included a challenge mechanism to verify the notification request. WordPress.com now supports the domain parameter ( and challenge ) for rssCloud notification requests. The WordPress.org rssCloud plugin supports it as well.

    An…

    5 Nov 2009


    Two months ago we turned on support for rssCloud on WordPress.com. Today we’re announcing some improvements.

    Initially rssCloud limited update pings to the IP address that made the notification request. To get around this a domain parameter was suggested, that included a challenge mechanism to verify the notification request. WordPress.com now supports the domain parameter ( and challenge ) for rssCloud notification requests. The WordPress.org rssCloud plugin supports it as well.

    An…

    5 Nov 2009

    A tiny home tour: living in 96 square feet [I would love living like this!!]

    4 Nov 2009


    October was another busy and productive month. We released Publicize for Yahoo! Updates and Twitter, and upgraded the Theme Viewer for WordPress.com. Coming out of the Automattic team meetup in Québec City, we launched new image templates and mobile themes, and open sourced our After the Deadline proofreader. We also shipped WordPress 2 for iPhone and added support to VideoPress for Ogg, an open video format.

    Many of us will be heading out to the Big Apple this month…

    4 Nov 2009


    October was another busy and productive month. We released Publicize for Yahoo! Updates and Twitter, and upgraded the Theme Viewer for WordPress.com. Coming out of the Automattic team meetup in Québec City, we launched new image templates and mobile themes, and open sourced our After the Deadline proofreader. We also shipped WordPress 2 for iPhone and added support to VideoPress for Ogg, an open video format.

    Many of us will be heading out to the Big Apple this month…

    4 Nov 2009

    Quite possibly the greatest photo of all time - Crankybear

    4 Nov 2009

    Flickr Sprouts App Garden: Five Cool Apps

    3 Nov 2009


    When we announced After the Deadline, the proofreading tool used on WordPress.com, many of you asked us to add proofreading to the HTML Editor.

    The HTML Editor lets you edit the HTML in your posts and pages directly. It is also very lightweight.

    We’ve been hard at work and now you can check your spelling, style, and grammar from the HTML Editor. Here is a screenshot:

    AtD checks spelling, style, and grammar in the HTML Editor too

    The proofreader for the HTML Editor has the same features as the one for the Visual Editor.

    Click proofread to…

    3 Nov 2009


    When we announced After the Deadline, the proofreading tool used on WordPress.com, many of you asked us to add proofreading to the HTML Editor.

    The HTML Editor lets you edit the HTML in your posts and pages directly. It is also very lightweight.

    We’ve been hard at work and now you can check your spelling, style, and grammar from the HTML Editor. Here is a screenshot:

    AtD checks spelling, style, and grammar in the HTML Editor too

    The proofreader for the HTML Editor has the same features as the one for the Visual Editor.

    Click proofread to…