Posted: Monday, November 7th, 2011 at 8:45 pm. Filed in Admin Bar, New Features, Notifications, Social.
Notifications, the Pulse of Your Blog
Your blog lives and breathes. Today we’re launching a new way for you to check its pulse. It’s called Notifications, and it lives in the right corner of your Toolbar (Admin Bar), which appears at the top of your screen while you’re logged in to WordPress.com.
Whenever another WordPress.com user follows your blog, or likes one of your posts, Notifications will tell you who your newest fans are by adding a new note to the stack:
You can even follow them back, right from within the note. After all, blogging is a journey of discovery and community.
If you’re a fan of Google+, as we are, a lot of this will be familiar as many parts were inspired by Google’s toolbar, and a bit by Facebook’s new real-time stream.
What will Notifications do in the future?
We’ll add more activities, such as comments. We’ll give you a way to go back and see all of your notes in one place (right now, we show the 9 most recent activities). We’ve got a bunch of exciting plans for new notifications and we can’t wait to share them with you. And for those of you who are so popular that you get new followers and likes every few minutes, we’re already thinking about ways to help you manage and limit the flow activity.
We hope you enjoy checking the pulse of your blog with this new feature. If you aren’t seeing the Notifications counter in your Toolbar, don’t worry: it will show up when your next follower or liker arrives.
For more information about followers and likes: My Followers, Likes.
November 9th, 2011 at 7:35 am
It’s funny how when some ‘social networks’ make changes the masses squeal in dismay, posting mischievous graffiti across the walls, and when WordPress makes changes we are forever indebted and grateful…. ;~) Thanks guys! You are fantastique. Merci beaucoup.
November 9th, 2011 at 8:33 am
Good development,nice one…
November 9th, 2011 at 8:34 am
Thank you so much WordPress
November 9th, 2011 at 9:04 am
Always taking a step ahead to improve wordpress. Very impressive you guys, keep it up.
November 9th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
this is so good, with a simple way you can find all the new info, who has liked your post etc, very good upgrade
keep up the good work 
November 9th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
As a new user, I am impressed with WordPress and I hope, I will get some people to follow me
November 10th, 2011 at 1:27 am
This is awesome! Definitely a great way to keep up on who’s following us, and who we’re following!
November 10th, 2011 at 4:41 am
I think the changes on WordPress are awesome
November 10th, 2011 at 4:52 am
Neat!
November 10th, 2011 at 8:02 am
I love this addition. Thank you so much. It’s great to have everything in just one go-to location. It’s much more convenient!
For a new blogger like me, this sure helps a lot more than you’ll ever know. 
November 10th, 2011 at 10:06 am
Love it! So much easier than having to click on your dash and checking.
November 10th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Haia..!!! Great future! Great WP tech!! Thanks for your information WordPress!! You are the best!!
November 11th, 2011 at 9:07 am
Very much appreciated.
November 11th, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Added + for sure! It’s really nice…
November 12th, 2011 at 9:22 am
he..he…this is remind me of facebook^^
Great!!!
waiting for the next upgrade
November 12th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
am yet to see how this works. hope i like it
November 14th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
I really like the new feature. I have a small blog, but I do it for the readers, this is yet another great thing about wordpress that keeps me writing.
November 14th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Grazie wordpress, come faremmo senza queste idee geniali?
Ci dovremmo limitare a scrivere i nostri pensieri.
Deprimente.
Invece ora con le notifiche siamo felici !
November 15th, 2011 at 1:27 am
Quite by chance I saw an orange box and clicked away
Then, on the rare occasion I remember to read notifications I see this article! Great addition … I’ll try and keep up to date with notifications more often!!!!
November 15th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
I believe Notifications came stock with my Twenty Eleven theme.
November 29th, 2011 at 9:10 am
Notifications are theme independent.
November 15th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Forever eye candy.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
This is really cool. Thank you! Is this feature live, or something I need to make active on my account?
November 29th, 2011 at 9:16 am
It’s already live. You’ll see it show up when your next follower or liker arrives.
November 16th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Slowly I am realising the power WordPresss has provided.
November 16th, 2011 at 7:55 pm
great stuff… i cant wait for these things to all come in place…
November 18th, 2011 at 1:47 am
I like the new feature, to bad my blog doesn’t see that used much lol.
November 29th, 2011 at 9:41 am
Try the tips here.
November 19th, 2011 at 1:45 am
Great feature. Like the way the number pops up on the top right of the screen. Easy way to join a blog or show your appreciation. Thanks Martin.
November 19th, 2011 at 4:19 am
This is so cool. Thanks.
November 20th, 2011 at 11:27 am
I am new to WordPress world and appreciate all that you offer please don’t hesitate in following my poetry.
November 20th, 2011 at 6:08 pm
This tool is truly wonderful what more could an editor want? Thanks WordPress.