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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.

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by Andy Skelton

Posted: Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 10:06 pm. Filed in New Features, WordPress.com.
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  1. Graser 10
    Oct 26th at 10:47 pm

    Woah, keep it up WordPress! :grin:

  2. anas
    Oct 26th at 10:49 pm

    Well, thanks to make us easy and easier agan :)
    Nice job

  3. abarclay12
    Oct 26th at 10:54 pm

    I like this new addition, and I also love Andy’s mustache.

  4. محسن وزیری
    Oct 26th at 11:07 pm

    this is very nice !thank you

  5. Grace
    Oct 26th at 11:14 pm

    Yay. Thanks. That’s “More” fun.

  6. Gustavo
    Oct 26th at 11:40 pm

    Cool

  7. Nobodyknows
    Oct 26th at 11:56 pm

    Man, this is awesome. Thanks for the update and upgrade.

    (But I’d kill for an Education department.)

  8. raincoaster
    Oct 27th 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.

  9. abu ameerah
    Oct 27th at 12:37 am

    thanks alot!

    : )

  10. Oldtimer
    Oct 27th 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

  11. Julio Fragoso
    Oct 27th at 12:59 am

    this is a great add by you guys…

    Awesome !

  12. devo
    Oct 27th at 1:29 am

    Fantastic improvement. Love it.

  13. cronies
    Oct 27th at 1:39 am

    I didn’t notice it, ty for letting us know ’bout this.

  14. parafonos
    Oct 27th at 2:01 am

    Well that is GOOD NEWS Andy !!!

  15. zylla3
    Oct 27th 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.

  16. Thunk Different.
    Oct 27th at 2:17 am

    well, i’ll be!

  17. museditions
    Oct 27th 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.

  18. devildog6771
    Oct 27th at 2:41 am

    Great idea! Thank you.

  19. timethief
    Oct 27th 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. :)

  20. PV
    Oct 27th 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.

  21. alicia5
    Oct 27th at 5:00 am

    Thanks wordpress.com!!!!!!!!

  22. The Guru
    Oct 27th at 7:04 am

    Interesting, I’ll have to see if I can find this here new feature.

  23. Viral Trivedi
    Oct 27th at 7:37 am

    Have to thank you guys for any and all efforts you make; regardless of the individualistic usability. So, Thanks!

  24. Austin
    Oct 27th 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)

  25. tahir
    Oct 27th at 8:58 am

    Cool feature.

  26. asaverle
    Oct 27th at 9:58 am

    Not bad at all. Didn’t notice it before.

  27. asaverle
    Oct 27th 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.

  28. Maninas
    Oct 27th at 11:10 am

    Excellent! Thank you!

  29. legoless
    Oct 27th at 12:25 pm

    Cool idea!
    P.S. cool avvy, Andy! ;)

  30. Wolz14
    Oct 27th at 1:55 pm

    awesome cool

  31. Heather S. Ingemar
    Oct 27th at 2:44 pm

    Very nifty. Thanks guys!

  32. Daniel Trezub
    Oct 27th at 3:03 pm

    Great! Now we are waiting this in another languages, as promised :)

  33. trollboy
    Oct 27th at 4:19 pm

    An Art or Design section would be a nice addition!

  34. Diego Urioste
    Oct 27th at 5:37 pm

    Great!

  35. Jane
    Oct 27th at 5:55 pm

    Thanks WordPress. There doesn’t seem to be a “news” section for us “wildlife” freaks… Coming soon???

  36. Sakib Al Mahmud
    Oct 27th at 7:19 pm

    Thansk A Lot Dear Andy

  37. Vish
    Oct 27th at 9:23 pm

    Ah crumbs. My categories are random. Mind you, it would be cool to browse everyone else… Cheers guys!

  38. Paul
    Oct 27th at 10:41 pm

    Very cool! I’ll definitely be clicking on “more” a bunch!

  39. cyclepromo
    Oct 28th at 1:23 am

    Thanks for the new feature. Thats very social of you, if you know what i mean.

  40. ena
    Oct 28th at 3:43 am

    What about Nature and Gardening, The Environment. No news for them???
    Hope you will add these very important categories.

  41. necrophagus
    Oct 28th at 8:47 am

    awesome :D

  42. goldcoaster
    Oct 29th 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)

  43. Kunal
    Oct 29th at 4:25 am

    now this is brilliant :)

  44. kidtales
    Oct 29th at 2:08 pm

    Cool

  45. Peter Cruickshank
    Oct 29th 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…

  46. slimball2007
    Oct 29th at 8:28 pm

    Great Idea.
    I could really use something like that! :P
    Thanks!
    ~`*Slimball2007*`~

  47. rumours
    Oct 30th at 3:01 am

    News..News..News..
    News..News..News..
    News..News..News..
    Non stop WordPress
    :lol:

  48. jessicadoyle
    Oct 30th 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.

  49. imani
    Oct 30th at 6:18 pm

    One for cars but not for books? :/

  50. Erwin
    Oct 30th at 7:58 pm

    this is awesome, guys. Keep up all the good work.

  51. Natalia
    Oct 30th at 9:24 pm

    That’s really cool .. So I don’t have to surf around.. Thank you

  52. soxgirl4life
    Oct 31st at 3:53 am

    looking forward to posting!

  53. gajamoo
    Oct 31st at 10:01 am

    thanks wordpress.com

  54. phyllisshik
    Oct 31st 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!!!

  55. vincent1989
    Oct 31st at 7:45 pm

    Cool.

  56. kitong
    Nov 1st at 8:15 am

    cool, thanks bro..

  57. arun1234
    Nov 1st at 2:09 pm

    It’s gr8 to be here.

  58. anijoa
    Nov 1st at 2:13 pm

    cool

  59. aruntechm
    Nov 2nd at 2:11 pm

    I like it, very impressive…

    Thank you

  60. ferozsahid
    Nov 2nd at 3:34 pm

    its cool I like it keep it up

  61. prodip
    Nov 2nd at 6:27 pm

    Thanks WordPress.

  62. slimball2007
    Nov 2nd 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! :D

  63. familyforest
    Nov 3rd at 8:49 am

    Nice but I had not seen it until I saw this.
    Thanks.
    More could be more prominent.

  64. Mati
    Nov 3rd at 4:15 pm

    Thats great, thanks

  65. monikrulz
    Nov 4th at 5:41 am

    Pretty cool!

  66. matthewalbert
    Nov 4th at 3:44 pm

    I am very impressed.

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