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 [...]

So….after changing the name of this darn thing several times, I’ve finally settled on one and am moving URLs. From now on you can find me at: thelittlebite.wordpress.com Update your bookmarks, reader, whatever! See you there :) Filed under: 1

Lately I’ve been missing home quite often. Usually it has something to do with being verbally assaulted by bodaboda drivers or a thousand shouts of “Muzungu!!!” as I make my way through town.  Or, like today, when I go out shopping for a new dress or top or skirt and find that nothing fits right.  [...]

Anyone in my family can attest to the fact that I absolutely LOVE deviled eggs.  Can’t get enough of them.  My favorite part of Easter/Thanksgiving/Family reunions is the deviled eggs.  My cousin Sue makes possibly the best deviled eggs I’ve ever tasted.  And I eat my weight in them.  On any one of those days [...]

I’ve been trying to make hash browns with a fried egg for days now.  The Fates, it seems, have had other thoughts. I decided to make hash browns and fried egg for dinner several days ago.  I bought potatoes at the Thursday market.  Things were looking good.  Usually I pay 2,000 Shillings for a bag of [...]

Uganda is roughly the size of Oregon.  One would expect that moving around a country the size of Oregon would be easy.  It’s not.  If I wanted to go to Kampala (eastern-central) from the far south (say Kisoro) it might take over 10 hours.  10 hours! Forget about going from Kisoro (in the far south, [...]

My landlord said “Let there be Light.” And there was.  And I saw that it was good. The Meat Shop lady said “Let there be Cheddar.” And there was.  And I saw that it was good. Electricity came to my little two room house this week.  I never really realized how much I missed electricity.  I made [...]