Posted: Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 10:06 pm. Filed in New Features, WordPress.com.
Tags: News
More News
A few months ago we added News Departments to the WordPress.com front page and I promised there would be “a new place where you can browse fresh, hot content in any department you like”. Well, it’s here.
Actually we deployed the new “More »” link quietly last week just to see how many visitors would notice and click: hundreds per day. That means a lot of people are missing out on all the fun!
The News Page lets you browse recently popular posts in a bunch of categories and we will be finding more ways to help you browse as we think of them.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Woah, keep it up WordPress!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Well, thanks to make us easy and easier agan
Nice job
October 26th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I like this new addition, and I also love Andy’s mustache.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
this is very nice !thank you
October 26th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Yay. Thanks. That’s “More” fun.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Cool
October 26th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Man, this is awesome. Thanks for the update and upgrade.
(But I’d kill for an Education department.)
October 27th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Good, outstanding. Now what you need to do is add a page where people can see all the different categories, or at least a randomly rotating selection. I’ve already noticed that the News page has ensured that all of the Top Posts are from those few limited categories. This isn’t good for the global conversation.
October 27th, 2007 at 12:37 am
thanks alot!
: )
October 27th, 2007 at 12:48 am
If you want to keep it quiet, you need to be less obvious! I saw the “more” link very early on. Wondered when you would announce it.
I think some of us are still struggling with the category/tag situation. Many of my links were tag related as in “see all (tag) posts” . Then the tags were renamed categories and many of my links failed. Redo. Now they work either way, but still I have lots of categories that the converter won’t see so they have to be manually converted.
Just the same, the tag/category change and the “more>>” link will help broaden our reach. You guys do good work.
Thanks
Oldtimer
October 27th, 2007 at 12:59 am
this is a great add by you guys…
Awesome !
October 27th, 2007 at 1:29 am
Fantastic improvement. Love it.
October 27th, 2007 at 1:39 am
I didn’t notice it, ty for letting us know ’bout this.
October 27th, 2007 at 2:01 am
Well that is GOOD NEWS Andy !!!
October 27th, 2007 at 2:15 am
I’ve finally got he courage to start my blog today, and “More>>” is one of the many overwhelming things I discovered that did not really overwhelm me. Sigh!!! Thanks for all the amazing things I’m slowwwly comprehending.
October 27th, 2007 at 2:17 am
well, i’ll be!
October 27th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Glad you posted this. That’s a teeny little “more” link, and I did not notice. I seriously love the News Page!! I can view posts on “Science” and “Mysticism”, or “Music” and “Spirituality”, for instance, all in one place. Thank you very much.
October 27th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Great idea! Thank you.
October 27th, 2007 at 3:25 am
I like the expansion and I found the link a few days ago. I would like to suggest that “Personal Development” is a department that ought to be considered for addition. Thanks for all your work.
October 27th, 2007 at 4:58 am
Exactly what I was looking for & found yesterday. A constantly updating news feature without having to refresh the page would be a great add on.
October 27th, 2007 at 5:00 am
Thanks wordpress.com!!!!!!!!
October 27th, 2007 at 7:04 am
Interesting, I’ll have to see if I can find this here new feature.
October 27th, 2007 at 7:37 am
Have to thank you guys for any and all efforts you make; regardless of the individualistic usability. So, Thanks!
October 27th, 2007 at 8:00 am
I didn’t even notice it was there. When going to the main page I thought, now why would only one blog entry make the news page per category? One for health, one for politics, etc. I guess not seeing the “more” link kept me in the dark about more news. Oops!!
Austin (not blind or blond)
October 27th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Cool feature.
October 27th, 2007 at 9:58 am
Not bad at all. Didn’t notice it before.
October 27th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Perhaps though it should be divided by language like botd so we foreign bloggers dont feel rejected. Is there any future plans about that?
Sorry for the double comment.
October 27th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Excellent! Thank you!
October 27th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Cool idea!
P.S. cool avvy, Andy!
October 27th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
awesome cool
October 27th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Very nifty. Thanks guys!
October 27th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Great! Now we are waiting this in another languages, as promised
October 27th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
An Art or Design section would be a nice addition!
October 27th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Great!
October 27th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Thanks WordPress. There doesn’t seem to be a “news” section for us “wildlife” freaks… Coming soon???
October 27th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Thansk A Lot Dear Andy
October 27th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Ah crumbs. My categories are random. Mind you, it would be cool to browse everyone else… Cheers guys!
October 27th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Very cool! I’ll definitely be clicking on “more” a bunch!
October 28th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Thanks for the new feature. Thats very social of you, if you know what i mean.
October 28th, 2007 at 3:43 am
What about Nature and Gardening, The Environment. No news for them???
Hope you will add these very important categories.
October 28th, 2007 at 8:47 am
awesome
October 29th, 2007 at 3:29 am
Thanks but is there any way that users can customise the news page – eg. i don’t really care about US based sports and that seems to be mostly in the sports section – nice if we could locaise things down to country level.
– GoldCoaster (Australia)
October 29th, 2007 at 4:25 am
now this is brilliant
October 29th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Cool
October 29th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Cool feature! Now, if there was only a way to find the stories written by UK or European bloggers in amongst all the USA stuff…
October 29th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Great Idea.
I could really use something like that!
Thanks!
~`*Slimball2007*`~
October 30th, 2007 at 3:01 am
News..News..News..
News..News..News..
News..News..News..
Non stop WordPress
October 30th, 2007 at 4:09 am
I agree with trollboy. An art, design or creative section would be welcome
I’m new to WordPress.com but not to WordPress. Just want to say thank you for being you, WordPress.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
One for cars but not for books?
October 30th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
this is awesome, guys. Keep up all the good work.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
That’s really cool .. So I don’t have to surf around.. Thank you
October 31st, 2007 at 3:53 am
looking forward to posting!
October 31st, 2007 at 10:01 am
thanks wordpress.com
October 31st, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Good of u guys, my eyes ddnt fail me coz i nnoticed the link on my first log on.Keep it up!!!
October 31st, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Cool.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:15 am
cool, thanks bro..
November 1st, 2007 at 2:09 pm
It’s gr8 to be here.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:13 pm
cool
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:11 pm
I like it, very impressive…
Thank you
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:34 pm
its cool I like it keep it up
November 2nd, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Thanks WordPress.
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Hello.
I was wondering if
you could make another 2 widget sidebar
theme with the pages on the header?
I really would like 1 theme like that.
Thanks!
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:49 am
Nice but I had not seen it until I saw this.
Thanks.
More could be more prominent.
November 3rd, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Thats great, thanks
November 4th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Pretty cool!
November 4th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I am very impressed.