WordPress.com has grown into one of the most amazing cloud architectures in the world. This has enabled blogs hosted here to have features unavailable on self-hosted WordPress installs. This makes us sad, since here at WordPress.com we want every WordPress install everywhere to be amazing. In this spirit, we have great news. We are now making the [...]

Back in the middle of 2009, we launched our very own HD video service called VideoPress. Since then we’ve made a bunch of improvements including the ability to natively share videos in Facebook. Today we are happy to announce a new set of capabilities that we’ve all been eager to see. Starting right now, all [...]

You’ve probably noticed that the ride has been a bit bumpy on WP.com the past week with a widely covered DDoS attack last week and then another interruption a few hours ago from an unrelated network maintenance issue. Our core mission is enabling the world to publish, and anything that affects the availability of your site or [...]

Next week a bunch of us from Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com, will be attending South by Southwest Interactive. It’s one of our favorite events of the year, and we hope to see many of you there in person. This year WordPress and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg will be interviewed by John Battelle live onstage [...]

There’s only one thing more exciting than an amazing new WordPress theme available for your site and that’s even more amazing new WordPress themes. With that in mind, I’m excited to announce that today we have three new Premium Themes ready for you! Each one features custom support direct from the theme providers themselves and, [...]

Say hello to our newest theme, Choco. If I had to sum this theme up in just one word, it’d be stylish. With dark colors and stitched borders Choco will give your site a classy, contemporary feel. It is well-suited for any site but works especially well for journal-style blogs: the traditional two-column layout with [...]

One of my favorite shows is How It’s Made. I love seeing how things I use every day are actually created. In that spirit, here at Automattic we’ve thought about sharing more about how we work and think. For starters, here’s a recap on a few things. Where are we? Everywhere. People are surprised to [...]

I am rather pleased to announce the birth of a new Automattic theme designed and developed by the Theme Team. It goes by the name of Duster and is quite an interesting theme — if I may say so myself. Apart from the custom possibilities you’re already acquainted with in most of our themes — [...]

Which comment would you rather receive? “Great post! Check out my blog at someblog.wordpress.com.” or “Well said! I know exactly what you mean about X, and I’m glad that I’m not the only one who thinks so. I would even say that A, B, C! Your candor is greatly appreciated.” The second one, of course. [...]

We’ve made some big user experience improvements to how the traffic building feature called Publicize works.  This feature allows you to connect your WordPress.com blog to your account on social networking services like Twitter and Facebook, broadcasting your posts to your friends automatically for you. In the past it took a few steps to figure [...]

The last few weeks have come and gone with startling ease. Some of the highlights include the 2010 Peace Corps Ghana All-Volunteer Conference, Kpetoe, Aylos Bay, and site projects. The All-Volunteer Conference was held in Ho just about an hour from my site in the Volta Region. All the PCV’s serving in Ghana attended. At [...]

The day was uneventful, until the evening time. Around 4:00 p.m. I went out to greet people. My counterpart brought me four yams in the morning as a gift for Easter. Not quite chocolate, but it will feed me for more than a week. So, I went to his house first, [...]

Greetings to all!! This last week has been busy. Almost every day was full from the AM to the PM with meetings discussing a group of 20 Marine visitors. Organizing the drumming and dancing performance, TMT members and Kente Weavers filled my days until the event. On Saturday, I woke up around 8 [...]

Currently, it’s mushroom season in my area. My favorite time of year! The local mushrooms are delicious and taste like a portabella. These local mushrooms only last for about a month before the season is over so you have to act fast to enjoy them. One night, when Daria was over at [...]

Over the last week or so, Daria and I have had some time to hang out. I went up north to her site for about a week. There, I assisted her (mainly moral support) with a project. The project is called ‘Village Bicycle Project’ where people can buy used bikes at a [...]

Right now I’m in the Northern Region visiting with Daria and doing some work. I have contacts who are selling some of Kente products from my village at the cultural center here in Tamale. I need to collect some money from them and see if they want to sell more of the products. [...]

Some of you are wondering about all my old postings. They are all on my computer.  I’m going to look them over and organize them well and post them hopefully by the end of the week.  Also some people have posted comments with questions.  I will get to those this week as well. [...]

This week I have been working hard on organizing the Weavers in my village to start an association.  Over the past 4 months some Master Weavers and I have been planning and talking about the details.  There had been Kente associations but they have all failed.  The reason for the past failures that I could [...]

Well, I have been in Ghana over a year and only updated my blog a handful of times.  Not to make too many excuses but I will make one.  The cost for me to use the internet frequently was too high. You see, I make just a little over 200 GHC which equates to about 120 [...]

Ok so, I got internet at my site and gave my blog a make over. In the process I deleted all my old postings. I have them on my computer but I want to go through them edit and get rid of a few entries. Here are the basics. Country: Ghana Region: Volta Region District: [...]

Ghana Flag Map of Ghana (Arrow Pointing to Where My Site is Located)

This web page will document my travels in Ghana Africa with the Peace Corps. I hope that everyone finds this page easy to navigate. If you have any problems with the page or have any suggestions on things to add. There will be a suggestions tab where those can be made. I ask that everyone [...]