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About The Blog Smilies…

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WordPress.com users and bloggers can use smilies in articles but also in the comment section of a blog. I like that pretty much because it adds some emotions and fun to a discussion. But I wish it would be possible that we bloggers could replace them with our own images. That would allow us to create own sets of smilies for our blogs. It wouldn´t be anything else than replacing the smilies with different images in the settings and that makes me wonder why we still don´t have this option. This would be a small but nice new feature and … Continue reading About The Blog Smilies…

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New Email For Your WordPress.com Blog

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I always wondered if it is possible to get an own email address for the domain purchased via WordPress.com as my blog is hosted there and as I bought my domain there too. I tweaked some things for my blog last days and that means I went through the whole dashboard of WordPress. While I do think that I am already a little bit experienced, it´s funny that I always find new stuff. Today I found out that it is possible to forward emails with wordpress.com and that means that you can set up email addresses that contain the custom … Continue reading New Email For Your WordPress.com Blog

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Planet Automattic: Bytes from the People who Make WordPress.com

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Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
WordPress.com is the biggest blogging platform around, and one of the most visited websites in the world. Yet the team that keeps it running is an intimate group of 224 Automatticians (thinking of joining our ranks? We’re always hiring). Among them are the Code Wranglers at work on our great features, the designers who make sure every pixel in your theme is in its right place, and the Happiness Engineers who work around the clock to solve any issue our users encounter. Among the people working on WordPress.com, you’ll find marathon runners, home brewers, slam poets, and global nomads… Continue reading Planet Automattic: Bytes from the People who Make WordPress.com

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Spam comments and how you can avoid to let them come through

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While Akismet does work already pretty good as a blog spam comment filter, it is sometimes necessary to drop some spam comments manually into the wordpress spam folder, so that Akismet can learn about new spam to filter out spam comment even better in the future. I´d say that Akismet can already filter out 95% of the junk comments but there are always some comments coming through, which I would call the 5% of the new blog spammers who are not in the list of Akismet´s database yet. It is not much work to teach Akismet that it is a … Continue reading Spam comments and how you can avoid to let them come through

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Introducing Related Posts

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Originally posted on WordPress.com News:
Do you ever wonder what happens when your readers reach the end of your posts? What do they click on? Where do they go next? What if you’ve piqued a reader’s interest and left them wanting more, but don’t give them the option to do so? Today, we’re so happy to announce Related Posts on WordPress.com — one of the most requested features from users. Now, we’ll search your site for similar posts you’ve written and display a “Related” section at the end of every post, like this: Related Posts section If you post… Continue reading Introducing Related Posts

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Following and Reading Small and Popular Blogs. Separation is better…

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So, today I discovered the RSS Reader, Feed Reader or News aggregator called Feedly. After testing Feedly I must say that it is really a good tool for syndication of web content. In my opinion it has a really great usability on both platforms… desktop via browser or on mobile devices via application. I used the same google account (there are also different methods) on both platforms. It´s really awesome if you can add feeds when you are on your desktop PC and if you notice the changes will also count for your mobile device. I can add feeds and … Continue reading Following and Reading Small and Popular Blogs. Separation is better…