Support Updates: New Resources, Holiday Hours
As some of you may have noticed, Support has new help pages, and is no longer in the old FAQ format. Rather than a list of answers to your questions, Support is now more like a knowledgebase, providing comprehensive overviews of features and tasks.
Please feel free to contact us with your thoughts and suggestions on how Support can refine its documentation to suit your needs. After all, Support is all about helping YOU! We want to make our resources as useful as possible, so you can get the answers you’re looking for without hassle.
We’d also like to announce the official holiday hours for Support. During these times, responses will be slower than normal, and you may not get a response for more than 24 hours after submitting your request. As always, we will do our best to get back to you as soon as we can when we’re back on.
Please be sure to consult the forums and Support pages before attempting to contact Support.
- Dec 24: Support closes at 2 p.m. EST *
- Dec 25: Closed
- Dec 26: Closed
- Dec 27: Support opens at 10 a.m. EST **
- Dec 28: Open
- Dec 29: Open
- Dec 30: Open
- Dec 31: Support closes at 2 p.m. EST
- Jan 1: Closed
- Jan 2: Support opens at 10 a.m. EST
* EST is New York time (UTC-5). When it’s 2 p.m. in New York, it’s: 11 a.m. in Los Angeles; 7 p.m. in London; 10 p.m. in Moscow; 2 a.m. in Jakarta; 4 a.m. in Tokyo.
** When it’s 10 a.m in New York, it’s: 7 a.m. in Los Angeles; 3 p.m. in London; 6 p.m. in Moscow; 10 p.m. in Jakarta; 12 a.m. in Tokyo.
Email Newsletter

December 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Nice, thank you for the explanation and support hours!
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Merry Christmas
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Happy New Year
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Love the new WordPress layout!!
December 23rd, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Thanks for time translations
December 23rd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Whats with the I saw, I expected, etc? What is mean
December 24th, 2008 at 12:41 am
That’s a new way for us to understand and assist with issues within Support.
It’s broken down that way because most requests consist of three parts: 1) I performed an action on my blog or account, 2) Then I saw something funny or unwanted on my blog or account, 3) I expected it to look or behave in a specific way, which is different from the actual result.
This information helps us to investigate blogs and accounts more thoroughly the first go around, helping you get the results you’re looking for, fast.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:37 am
don’t get to work early ,
just enjoy your holiday time,
December 24th, 2008 at 12:39 am
After all the 24/7 support (especially during the 2.7 rollout), the support team really deserves a vacation anyway.
Happy holidays for everyone in Automattic.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Hope you guys have some time to relax! Btw, has the UTC feature been updated for daylight savings?
December 24th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Daylight savings needs to be manually adjusted. Check out this post for info. Cheers
December 24th, 2008 at 1:39 am
I love support. But,…you guys need a break. Makes sense to me. Have a Merry Christmas and it will be Blessed! Thanks for everything…really. Love Lanie
December 24th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Granted, the FAQ was scattershot, but I could–usually–find answers to simple questions. The new system seems daunting. And I still can’t find the code for an image in the text widget.
December 24th, 2008 at 4:01 am
Please write Support if you have any specific ideas for improvement. We’d love to hear them.
To display an image in a text widget, you’ll need to use HTML. Here’s a good place to learn about image source code, generally.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:39 am
happy holidays to all! love and cheers, R
December 24th, 2008 at 3:20 am
Merry Christmas Heather & team! Have a good one! x
December 24th, 2008 at 4:42 am
thanx WP for all yr support and tremendous patience in helping me to solving those glitchettes.
roll on 2009!
see if you can – including wordpress gals and boys – go 3 days [yr closed ones]
with out checking in on the www. / switching on yr pc – if it’s off / looking at yr blogs stats!
step back/forward into the real world / smell the roses or anything that’s alive /
breath in the fresh air / take a look at the the blue or cloudy sky / stretch in all directions and see if you can stand on one leg on yr tipy toes for a while!
spoil yr selves
December 24th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Great!! It’s nice to have updated support!! : ) Help us WP users loads!!
December 24th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Happy Holiday to all WordPress management and staff and all members of WordPress.
December 24th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Thank you for your notice. Merry Christmas team and all member of wordpress! Best wish to you!!!
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December 24th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Happy holidays to a great team!
December 24th, 2008 at 10:16 am
merry christmas and happy holidays to the team!
December 24th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Thanks – and Happy Christmas to you all. Jingle-jingle!
December 24th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Thanks for making my blogging expierience better, I hope that you have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thats all,
Chater :-]
December 24th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
nice .. become easier time to time .. happy holidays
December 24th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Thank you for the advance notice. Happy Holidays to a great bunch. Peace and blessings,
December 24th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2009 & Happy Holidays to all WordPress management and staff and all members of WordPress….. see yaaaa………..
December 24th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Merry Christmas to all WP team for the best effort committed this 2008 and a hopeful 2009 with more update support, Happy New Year..you all need the rest. Thanks.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I love the fact the new help page now says “Content Theft” rather than “Copyright”…i have had a problem with content theft (and have only been here a couple of weeks)..i consider it stealing and it’s great that it’s now listed as such…Happy Christmas…..x
December 24th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Happy new year & Merry christmas!!!!!!!!
December 24th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Enjoy your break, you guys deserve it.
December 24th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Happy Christmas and an Awesome New Year to the WordPress team!!!
December 24th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Merry Christmas and happy new year
December 24th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
enjoy your holiday, and happy new year
December 24th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Happy Holidays and thank you for the post.
While we are talking about support, I had a question about website traffic. How do you increase your blog traffic?
Happy Holidays
December 24th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Thanks for the holiday wishes. Here are some tips on increasing traffic to your blog.
December 24th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Enjoy your time away and thanks for all you do!
December 24th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Thanks a bunch for everything. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone at WordPress!
December 24th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Happy holidays and the best of the season wishes to all wordpress.com staff. Thanks for being on the job and working hard to serve your users year round.
December 24th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Merry Christmas!
December 24th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year WordPress & everyone!
~Pinkgirl3919
December 25th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year to everyone at WordPress.Com. And, a great big THANK YOU!
December 25th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Have a nice Holiday for WP team staff. Many thanks for good explanation and great help in WP.
December 25th, 2008 at 4:52 am
happy holiday, and happy new year……
December 25th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Merry Christmas WordPress.Com. Thanks for your speedy technical support. Your efforts and innovation are much appreciated.
December 25th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Merry Christmas!
December 25th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Merry Xmas for all of you at WordPress : you are my favorite ! I just LOVE WordPress and I am so happy to work with you, guys ! Thanks again !
December 25th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Blessings to all at WordPress, all WordPress blogs and all WordPress readers
December 26th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Tanks I am love the new WordPress layout, Insya Allah
December 26th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
thanks a lot for the updates. happy holidays and new year, everyone!
December 27th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Peace and blessings for everybody & Happy New Year!
December 27th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
kind a new around here…
and still learning
this help page, can you give me detail of its use (common speaking)
thanks
December 28th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
@ekiepurnomo, hi and welcome to WordPress.com! The help pages are available at http://support.wordpress.com/. You can read the pages there to learn about WordPress.com features. You may want to check out the Getting Started section. If you need any help that is specific to your account, please contact us using the support contact form.
December 28th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !
December 28th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
December 29th, 2008 at 9:25 am
What is the meaning of Merry in merry christmas?
December 29th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Interesting question! According to the dictionary, merry means “full of or showing high-spirited merriment”, so in context it probably means “wishing you a high-spirited Christmas”.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
are the video tutorials still available?
December 29th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Yes, they are. You can see them here: http://faq.wordpress.com/?s=screencast and they will be added to the new support site as time goes on.
December 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Merry Christmas, and thanks for the update!
December 29th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Happy Holidays to the team!
December 29th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
thanks for the info, happy new year!
December 30th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Good Job! I love the new wordpress features, every since the new dashboard has been launched its Better and better! I love WP! Braybon9~
December 31st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
i love the sno on this theme.
January 1st, 2009 at 2:30 am
um how do i change my avatar? HELP !!
January 1st, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Simply go to My Account > Edit Profile.
January 1st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Happy New Year!
~Friezypop~
January 1st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
On New Years Eve and on New Years Day, I made posts that never showed in the any of the cat. that they were assigned.
1) Happy New Years 2009
2) 19 Days Until The Real New Years For America
Tristan
January 1st, 2009 at 7:40 pm
kewl, so in NY it’s Jan 1st, so it’s closed now, But what about other days? Or was that list an example?
January 1st, 2009 at 8:08 pm
The list explains our holiday hours. It is safe to assume that if we aren’t listed as “closed,” then we are open.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I really do picture you all year-round as little elves in a workshop, but laying outstretched on a couch, stuffed with turkey, belching and sluggin’ a few beers watching the game works for me, too…you all deserve a break! Happy New Year!
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 am
But how do we submit a question?
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:42 pm
If you’re having any trouble with your blog or account, please contact Support.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Coming in a bit late! Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays.
It would be fantastic to see tighter integration between the Dashboard and the new Support area, along the lines of “learn more about this feature” or somesuch, perhaps as a part of the expanding Help button if clutter is a concern.
Thanks again for all that you do for us.
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:01 pm
thanks super
January 4th, 2009 at 3:16 am
It’s great, many thank’s for anything from wordpress..
Happy new year..
January 5th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Thanks for taking care of us.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:58 am
sweet… so that means we get better surrport??? if so keep doing what you do wordpress or should i say WP!!
January 6th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Thanks for providing this wonderful platform to us for blogging… Wish you and your team a great year ahead.