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John Saddington

Manage Your Gravatar with iGravatar Mobile App

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January 2, 2013

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Gravatars are great as they are a visual cue and reference for your online identity – it’s hard to imagine blogs without this signal now that they have been around for some time! Managing them is typically done through the web interface but now there’s another mobile alternative called iGravatar that allows you to manage it via your iOS device (Android coming soon). Upload images directly for your use, assign them to the right email address, and be on your merry way:

3.6 Planning Session Tomorrow: Start Your Engines!

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January 1, 2013

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Mark Jaquith, the lead for 3.6, has shared that the regularly scheduled IRC meetings start tomorrow with a big scope and planning session @ 21:00 UTC. The theme? “Content Editing” which will get a number of you pretty psyched including me who would love to features that refine and really challenge the editorial process (workflows, revisions, user management, etc). Could be a doozy. Make sure you’re there if that floats your boat and start considering how much time you’d love to invest and help Mark out!

Your First Post of 2013…

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January 1, 2013

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By the time you read this post there have been 234,638,513 people that have already blogged – ok, we made that number up. But today is the first day of the new year and this is your year of publishing greatness. Sure, you might be at work but you can find some time to draft a small blog post (or two). And if you have time off then find a 15-30 minutes today to bang out that first post. We want to encourage you to do so as there are immeasurable benefits to you writing, especially if you own your own […]

Citing Creative Commons for Your Photos

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January 1, 2013

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Here’s an incredibly handy infographic about Creative Commons that’s well worth a review if you use any photos or media for your blog posts, which is an incredibly strong strategy for building great content. Make sure that your blog posts have some media and make sure that you cite it well and right! Click for a much larger view:

WordPress.com by the Numbers in 2012

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January 1, 2013

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With an overview of 2012 via WordPress.org I thought it would be neat to take a look at what 2012 looked like for WordPress.com – specifically via metrics, a bit of analytics, and some very basic math. There’s some neat things that have happened cumulatively that are worth noting:

A Look Back at WordPress.org in 2012

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January 1, 2013

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Jane Wells spent a few moments reflecting on WordPress.org and all that has happened around the budding community over the last 365 days in the now quickly-being-forgotten 2012 – my, does time fly when you’re having so much fun! A few things that Jane mentions are the fact that we saw two major releases (3.4 and 3.5) as well as updates to all of the native mobile platforms as well, like iOS,Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Nokia, and WebOS. The plugin directory was updated, the “Make” network with team reps have continued to be refined, the WordPress Community Summit came and went and a focus on even more […]

December, 2012: Month in Review

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January 1, 2013

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It’s my honor and privilege to be one of the editors of this newly minted blog and since we started earlier this month it’s been a pretty neat ride. Statistically it’s been an incredible start for a concept that was once just a simmering thought below the surface that bubbled enough (and long enough) to capture our attention toward execution, even if it wasn’t a perfect product out the gate. Here’s a top-level look at what we’ve accomplished in just 24 short days – not even a full calendar month! 130 published posts – that’s more than 5 posts a day! […]

Jetpack's End of the Year Annual Reports

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December 31, 2012

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Did you get your 2012 Year in Blogging Annual Report in your inbox recently? I know I did as I got more than a few of them. These annual reports are a neat way to see a top-level view of what happened over the course of the year in terms of your blog. It gives you statistics (in a nice graphical form) of how many people visited the blog, where they were from, what the top posts were in terms of traffic and comments (and who they were) as well referrals. It’s not a crazy-robust report but it’s a neat […]

Poster: An Elegant Editor for iOS

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December 31, 2012

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If you know me at all then you know I’m pretty obsessed with trying out new applications and anything that’ll make my publishing life easier. In fact, I’m willing to try out anything just to see if I can eek out a bit more performance and effectiveness in the limited amount of time that I’ve got. This past year has been an interesting year with WordPress native applications – there hasn’t really been a clear winner in my book and nothing that has “stuck” long enough for me to say, with dogmatism, this is the best WordPress native editor around. This […]

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