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From the Blog en.blog - Texting: It's Now For Blogging, Too November 3rd, 2010 Sometimes, you can’t always get to your computer, but you may really need to handle something important on your blog. That’s when a new feature we’re launching today — WordPress.com Text Messaging — steps in to help. Through our shiny new 77377 (PRESS) shortcode, you can manage your blog using SMS messages. No computer? No problem. Note: Currently available in the USA only. Standard text message and data rates apply. We’ve added great free and paid upgrade features to Text Messaging that make it easy to blog while on the go: Free Features Here’s what a text message would look like if your blog’s theme was changed. For no additional cost, you can receive text notifications when the following changes occur on your blog: Users are added or removed The theme changes The privacy settings change Upgrade Features And here’s an example of a text message indicating a comment needs to be moderated. For ultimate control over your blog while on the go, check out the features you get with the Text Messaging upgrade: Protect your blog by using a two-step login process. A text message will be sent to your phone upon login with a passcode that must be entered in order to access your Dashboard. Get notified of new comments and moderate them on the spot with a simple text reply. You can also send in a reply to comments you receive. Get a notification when a post is published on your blog. Need to post something short and sweet right away? You can fire off a text and a new post will be added to your blog instantly. The upgrade is available for just $20 per year. To purchase, select “Upgrades” while on your blog Dashboard and then select “Text Messaging”. Get Going Ready to get started? From your dashboard, click the “Text Messaging” link under the “Settings” tab to register your phone number with the service. After activating, you can select the Text Messaging features that you would like to use for your blog. Full instructions for using the Text Messaging service are available at http://en.support.wordpress.com/text-messaging known stranger
How to use and see Hovercards
From the Blog en.blog - Show who you are with Gravatar Hovercards November 3rd, 2010 You thought Gravatar Profiles were cool? Wait until you see them on your WordPress.com blog. Today dawns a new era in Gravatar awesomeness: Gravatar Hovercards . It’s now easy to find out about who is behind your favorite comments simply by moving your mouse. This new feature is now enabled by default across WordPress.com. What's a Hovercard? Gravatar Hovercards show information about a person: name, bio, pictures, and their contact info at other services they use on the web like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. As a commenter, Hovercards offer a great way to show your Internet presence and help people find your own blog. As a blogger, you can quickly check out who's commenting on your blog, and have an easier time connecting with them. How to use and see Hovercards You can see other people’s Hovercards by moving your mouse over their Gravatar picture in comments on any WordPress.com blog, and after a moment the Hovercard will appear. The information shown is taken directly from the person’s Gravatar profile. The more info in the profile, the more we show in the Hovercard. This can help you when moderating comments, as Hovercards will appear not only on blogs, but inside your blog dashboard as well. If it’s not something you want for your blog, you can turn Hovercards off for your blog by going to Settings, Discussions, Avatars. If you haven’t set up your Gravatar Profile yet, just log in to Gravatar.com using your WordPress.com username and password and fill out your details or read these instructions first. If you don’t have a WordPress.com account yet, you can sign up for Gravatar here . known stranger
Hello, Goodbye: Offsite Redirect Upgrade
From the Blog en.blog - Hello, Goodbye: Offsite Redirect Upgrade November 3rd, 2010 “You say goodbye, I say hello.” – The Beatles Needless to say, we hope you never want to leave WordPress.com. But, should the day arrive that you decide to strike out on your own and set up a self-hosted WordPress blog with the free, open source WordPress software available at WordPress.org , we’ve got you covered with our new Offsite Redirect upgrade. Imagine you’ve decided to make the move, have exported your content from your wordpress.com blog and imported it into your new self-hosted WordPress site. Purchasing the Offsite Redirect upgrade will take the traffic coming to your old wordpress.com blog and forward it to your new domain so that links to your old content won’t break and you won’t take an SEO hit as a result of your move. Oh, and unlike the old domain mapping/DNS workaround, the signup process is easy as pie. Mmm, pie. Think of the Offsite Redirect as the flip side of domain mapping, because that’s basically what it is. We use a 301 redirect to forward your traffic and “map” your wordpress.com URLs to the new domain you specify. After purchasing the upgrade, you can manage your redirect by going to Upgrades > Domains . You can change the destination URL or suspend the forwarding whenever you wish. For more details and configuration help, visit the Offsite Redirect support document . known stranger
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