More News

October 26, 2007

Andy Skelton

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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  1. Graser 10 Oct 26th at 10:47 pm

    Woah, keep it up WordPress! 😀

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  2. anas Oct 26th at 10:49 pm

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

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  3. abarclay12 Oct 26th at 10:54 pm

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

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  4. محسن وزیری Oct 26th at 11:07 pm

    this is very nice !thank you

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  5. Grace Oct 26th at 11:14 pm

    Yay. Thanks. That’s “More” fun.

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  6. Gustavo Oct 26th at 11:40 pm

    Cool

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  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.)

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  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.

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

    thanks alot!

    : )

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  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

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

    this is a great add by you guys…

    Awesome !

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  12. devo Oct 27th at 1:29 am

    Fantastic improvement. Love it.

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  13. cronies Oct 27th at 1:39 am

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

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  14. parafonos Oct 27th at 2:01 am

    Well that is GOOD NEWS Andy !!!

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  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.

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

    well, i’ll be!

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  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.

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  18. devildog6771 Oct 27th at 2:41 am

    Great idea! Thank you.

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  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. 🙂

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  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.

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  21. alicia5 Oct 27th at 5:00 am

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

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

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

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  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!

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  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)

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  25. tahir Oct 27th at 8:58 am

    Cool feature.

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  26. asaverle Oct 27th at 9:58 am

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

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  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.

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  28. Maninas Oct 27th at 11:10 am

    Excellent! Thank you!

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  29. legoless Oct 27th at 12:25 pm

    Cool idea!
    P.S. cool avvy, Andy! 😉

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  30. Wolz14 Oct 27th at 1:55 pm

    awesome cool

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

    Very nifty. Thanks guys!

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

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

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  33. trollboy Oct 27th at 4:19 pm

    An Art or Design section would be a nice addition!

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

    Great!

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  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???

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

    Thansk A Lot Dear Andy

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  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!

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  38. Paul Oct 27th at 10:41 pm

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

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  39. cyclepromo Oct 28th at 1:23 am

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

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  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.

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  41. necrophagus Oct 28th at 8:47 am

    awesome 😀

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  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)

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  43. Kunal Oct 29th at 4:25 am

    now this is brilliant 🙂

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  44. kidtales Oct 29th at 2:08 pm

    Cool

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  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…

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  46. slimball2007 Oct 29th at 8:28 pm

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

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  47. rumours Oct 30th at 3:01 am

    News..News..News..
    News..News..News..
    News..News..News..
    Non stop WordPress

    😆

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  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.

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  49. imani Oct 30th at 6:18 pm

    One for cars but not for books? :/

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  50. Erwin Oct 30th at 7:58 pm

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

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  51. Natalia Oct 30th at 9:24 pm

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

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  52. soxgirl4life Oct 31st at 3:53 am

    looking forward to posting!

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  53. gajamoo Oct 31st at 10:01 am

    thanks wordpress.com

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  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!!!

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  55. vincent1989 Oct 31st at 7:45 pm

    Cool.

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  56. kitong Nov 1st at 8:15 am

    cool, thanks bro..

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  57. arun1234 Nov 1st at 2:09 pm

    It’s gr8 to be here.

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  58. anijoa Nov 1st at 2:13 pm

    cool

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  59. aruntechm Nov 2nd at 2:11 pm

    I like it, very impressive…

    Thank you

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  60. ferozsahid Nov 2nd at 3:34 pm

    its cool I like it keep it up

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  61. prodip Nov 2nd at 6:27 pm

    Thanks WordPress.

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  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!
    😀

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  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.

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  64. Mati Nov 3rd at 4:15 pm

    Thats great, thanks

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  65. monikrulz Nov 4th at 5:41 am

    Pretty cool!

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  66. matthewalbert Nov 4th at 3:44 pm

    I am very impressed.

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