Features Page
Remember when we asked you about your favorite features a few weeks back?
Well we’ve compiled that feedback into new feature pages meant to better reflect what the heck WordPress.com actually does. That page is now linked from the front page when you’re not logged in.
It’s not finished yet, but we’ve tried to fill out the various feature pages with lots of screenshots so they’re as much mini-tutorials as anything. Even if you’re a pro WordPress user, you might want to scan through just to see if there’s anything there that you might not know how to do.
Also now those of you who have trying to convince friends to move to WordPress.com have a little more ammo to show them what you’ve already figured out.
Oct 4th at 11:03 am
wow!
Oct 4th at 11:25 am
WordPress is the best bolgging platform around!
Oct 4th at 11:27 am
Looks great — a lot of resources in one place. And as you said, you built the page based on what we think is coolest about WordPress. Smart!
Oct 4th at 11:28 am
By the way, I’m going to send my Blogspot friends to this page to get them to convert …
Oct 4th at 11:37 am
I knew you guys were up to something when you asked us for our favourite feature.
I’d submitted a couple of features but it was eaten by the Monster-who-sometimes-eats-posts. Or maybe it just doesn’t like me.
I like the new link to the features; it tells a nice story.
Oct 4th at 11:38 am
Great features! You’re doing really great guys. Keep’em coming
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Oct 4th at 12:00 pm
WordPress is the best
Great work guys
Oct 4th at 12:14 pm
Excellent! Buy why limit the feature list to only when you are logged out? Many are still learning while they are using, so why not make it available for everyone all the time?
Oct 4th at 12:16 pm
a comprehensive list… great features
Oct 4th at 12:32 pm
WOW! This will help a lot when WordPress users try to (as the forester put it) ‘convert’ other blogging platform users to WordPress!
Oct 4th at 12:38 pm
Cool… It gives a nice summary of WordPress.
Oct 4th at 12:51 pm
whoah, this is great in my opinion!
Oct 4th at 1:12 pm
I love the fact that there are pictures. People always get attracted to shiny pictures.
Oct 4th at 1:13 pm
One thing I should add: It’s pretty fail-safe. Without having to go into a template to edit things, it’s impossible to mess up your layout!
Oct 4th at 2:19 pm
Damn, if I’d known you guys were collecting that information then I’d have say I like how WordPress impresses the ladies.
Oct 4th at 2:21 pm
Just a thought, add a small screenshot/graphic for each section so that it doesn’t look like a big page of text.
Oct 4th at 4:32 pm
Great! It looks even shinier!
Oooh, shiny.
Oct 4th at 4:34 pm
let the conversion to WordPress begin!
Oct 4th at 5:09 pm
thanks a lot!
sounds good to me!
Oct 4th at 5:45 pm
Looks nice. Any plans to release a few more themes to lure members?
Oct 4th at 6:20 pm
Great, this will give much help to us. Please give some screenshot too guys
CAYO
Oct 4th at 7:08 pm
Goody! We can now add that ‘Feature’ to the list of available Features
Keep up the good work Guys
Oct 4th at 7:46 pm
Why not have a quote from a user or users? This is like the WordPress online CV, after all. Include your referees!!!
Oct 4th at 8:36 pm
*yells*
WordPress Rocks!!
*calms down and runs away*
Oct 4th at 8:49 pm
You do say that you can change themes “at the click of a button”, but I think it’s worthwhile to also note that–unlike some other blog services that start with B and rhyme with Hogsquat–theme are instantaneous regardless of the size of your blog, because they do not require republication of your entire post history.
Oct 4th at 8:54 pm
Ahh, now I see it, way down in the second-to-last section. Consider rolling it into the Themes near the front? Or just never mind.
Oct 4th at 9:38 pm
and the other feature is that it is a wordpress and nothing else, you may add it to feature list
Oct 4th at 10:58 pm
o wordpress tá cada vez melhor ^^
Oct 4th at 10:59 pm
wordpress will dominate the world hehe
Oct 4th at 11:18 pm
hella good
Oct 5th at 1:26 am
Thats cool.. a new idea from another one… great matt
Oct 5th at 1:32 am
As usual, the men behind WP are great and always doing the best! Thanks.
Oct 5th at 2:46 am
Sound great.
Thank you so much. WordPress.
Oct 5th at 3:31 am
Hi Matt,
Thanks for starting another episode of giving new and valuable goodies to all community. This is sounds good to start this October month.
Great! We expect more things listed in the October wrap-up too.
Thanks and Thanks a lot.
Best Smile,
Zeezat
Oct 5th at 5:05 am
Nice one… this will help get new users and educate them all about the benefits of WordPress..
Good Work guys!
V
Oct 5th at 7:49 am
great job!!!
Oct 5th at 8:44 am
I’m speechless
Oct 5th at 11:20 am
Good deal, wish I’d had it five months ago. It will reduce newbie confusion; Forum questions.
~Engtech & fab kitten have it right: “add a small screenshot/graphic for each section”
~Front Page: should make “Features Page” –stand out in some way (larger font/bold/image/
graphic/”start here”/arrow, e.g.).
Oct 5th at 12:03 pm
I really thank WordPress for all the features , its simply the best.
Oct 5th at 12:23 pm
When ever I convince a friend they always ran away just bcoz unavailibility of free template customization….
So now I dont….
Oct 5th at 6:41 pm
amazing…
Oct 5th at 7:11 pm
Excellente!!! Still the bes weblog, there’s no match! Keep on going!
Oct 6th at 1:07 am
Thanks so much! I’m hella excited.
Oct 6th at 2:33 am
This is a nice montage of features, which is sure to lure in more potential bloggers, to the best platform of all!
Matt, you are the man!
Oct 6th at 3:58 am
thats realy cool !!
Oct 6th at 6:23 am
It’s realy good indeed
Oct 6th at 3:32 pm
That is a good list of reasons to use WordPress (which I do for my blogs here at WordPress.com and also my self-hosted blogs). It is a more sophisticated and feature-rich platform. That said, the point about gorgeous theme options needs some tempering… without doubt much credit is due to the various authors of the themes available at WordPress.com for their effort and the result. Credit is also due to WP for the sophistication of the configurability of the UI (it took till Blogger Beta for its users to have stop editing HTML and CSS to add, when possible, even a trivial UI element). However, themes at Blogger (among other sites and software) score a bit higher on refinement and some rather pragmatic issues such as use of real estate, size of fonts, etc.
Oct 6th at 8:09 pm
Great with a host that always better.
Oct 6th at 11:51 pm
WordPress is the best bolgging tool!
It’s so smart!
Oct 7th at 5:54 am
for a novice like me this rocks. thanks will send it along.
Oct 7th at 4:50 pm
Thanks again!
Oct 9th at 3:41 am
definitely going to preach this to my pals stuck on blogger and movable type!
Oct 10th at 7:37 am
I like the new compilation list!
I’m new to WordPress, and I am really just
discovering the features, but I am thouroughly
enjoying myself.
And whowouldathunkit!, you even come with help,
instructions, and tech support!
I’m happy I dumped my old blog at blogger!
Thank you!
*you’ve got hte joy, now give it your ode*
Oct 13th at 9:19 pm
If a Troglodyte like me can use it they must be on to something good.
Many Thanks WordPress.
Oct 14th at 10:45 am
The facilities I dig ere on WordPress is a visual and simplistic ting, often I start here then if I’m concerned about none of you actually reading the lementations then I cut and paste it upon myspace blog and 360. I am enjoying my membership ( and it’s free!).
Robert Bridge.