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March Wrap-Up
In March we brought you P2, an awesome theme perfect for short-form and group blogging, made with love by Automatticians. Next, version 1.21 of the WordPress for iPhone app hit the iTunes Store. To wrap up the month, we celebrated the opening of our new Automattic office space in SOMA. It turned out to be [...]

Bring Twitter to Your Blog
Have you become addicted to telling the world what you’re up to in 140 characters or less? If so, we’ve launched a feature that you’ll love: a Twitter widget for your sidebar.Now you can quickly and easily keep your readers connected to your updates on Twitter, and make your blog the home of even more [...]

P2: The New Prologue
Today we’re extra-pleased to introduce you to a new theme that reinvents what it means to group blog on WordPress.com.We call it P2 (in the style of K2, the update on the classic Kubrick theme), and it’s an extensive revamp of Prologue, the brainchild of last year’s winter retreat.Prologue broke ground when it brought microblogging [...]

February Wrap-Up
February was a good month for us, production-wise. We brought you a new theme, a new and improved LiveJournal import tool, and threaded comments. Elsewhere, Automattic launched BuddyPress, a set of WordPress MU plugins that transforms a WordPress MU install into a social network platform. We also launched the I <3 Blogging design contest, in [...]

Comment Threading is Here! (Plus Other Cool Comment Settings)
You asked, and we listened. Introducing threaded comments, comment paging, and comment order settings for your WordPress.com blog.Go to Settings > Discussion in your dashboard, and you’ll discover three new options in the “Other comments settings” section:“Enable comments [x] levels deep”“Break comments into pages with [x] comments per page and the [first or last] page [...]

New Theme: Vigilance
Today we bring to you a fresh new theme from Jestro Themes. Meet Vigilance:Vigilance has a super-special set of features, which you can access under Appearance > Vigilance Options after you’ve activated the theme under Appearance > Themes. These include:Customizable colors: You set the background color, border color, link color, and link hover color.Alert [...]

Even Easier LiveJournal Migration
With the huge increase in the number of people wanting to move over to WordPress.com from LiveJournal, we’ve been working hard on a better way to handle the import process. The previous importer required that you export each month and then import them individually which was rather tedious, and it also left all your old [...]

January Wrap-Up
We kicked off the new year in style with a new theme and the launch of WordPressTV. (More themes on the way.) We also broke the two-billion mark for combined pageviews across all WordPress blogs we track. I’d say that’s a pretty great way to begin 2009. Here’s to more fun and surprises this year.Here [...]

I<3 Blogging Design Contest
We’ve teamed up with the crew at Infectious for the first-ever “I <3 Blogging" design contest!Show off your creative talent and express why you love blogging (and WordPress) through an original design, to be printed and sold on laptop and iPhone skins to adoring bloggers everywhere.Winning designs will be sold in the Infectious store [...]

Tune in to WordPress.tv
Today we’ve switched on WordPress.tv, your visual resource for all things WordPress.WordPress.tv helps you get blogging fast and hassle-free with tutorials for both WordPress.com and WordPress.org.It’s also the place to find all that cool WordCamp footage previously floating around the web without a home. Check out presentations from WordCamps around the world and get a [...]