This looks like it was a lot of fun!

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Hi Michelle

I’m a member of a writing group, and a couple of other members in the US attended the recent BlogHer 14 and had a really great time. Do you ever hold any events like this in the UK?

Feeling a little unloved…

With all good wishes

Dee

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I’m not sure if BlogHer holds events in the UK, but there are WordCamps — community-organized WordPress conferences for bloggers, developers, and designers — all over the world. You can see the schedule here: http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/

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It was great meeting you and the booth was magnetic for me–even if you weren’t giving away chocolate. ;-)

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Thank you for keeping WordPress going so things like this event can happen.

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I hope to meet some Automatticians at a future BlogHer conferences. So fascinated by what you all do!

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You know, there are men who blog too.

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Ditto! So glad we got to connect.

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We know, and many of them were at BlogHer as well :)

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Hi WordPress. Any events that us male as well as female bloggers can attend in the UK it would be great to meet you face to face. The Foureyed Poet

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Hi, Malctg. BlogHer events are open to all bloggers, as are WordCamps — there are several WordCamps in the UK. You can see the WordCamp schedule here: http://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/

WordCamps are a great way to meet other bloggers in your community, including local Automatticians.

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Hey, you should Like this comment! Don’t be shy!

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Jetpack?

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We’re investigating ways to bring this to Jetpack (it’s a little trickier than Post Likes), but we’ll be sure to let everyone know when it’s ready!

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Another reason to love WordPress. The comments sections are often where real magic happens and community is built. Thanks for helping to enhance them!

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cool I actually was reading some really well put comments by other people and wanted to like what they had to say, give credit where credit is due.

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Here’s a bonus tip for everyone who reads the comments – you can also Like comments in your Notifications! It’s a great way to quickly Like comments if you get lots of them!

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Okay but, so, what was the hat/beard trick then?

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Good catch! Here it is!

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I turned the feature on and already had some ‘likes’ registered within five minutes of reading about this feature.

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That’s what we “like” to hear! ;-)

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When you like something on Facebook, you’ll be notified of further updates or comments to that post. Does this work in a similar faction? If I like a comment, will I be notified of replies to that comment?

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Liking a comment doesn’t subscribe you to a comment thread.

As with other methods of subscribing (clicking a blog subscribe button, or subscribing to a thread when making a comment), we want users to be able to actively decide to subscribe, rather than having it forced upon them.

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Gridiculous Pro: Best Theme Name Ever.

I am *so* chuffed about being featured here, thank you – and on my birthday too! xxx

Why, happy birthday!!

Awesome, I cant wait to write something for this.

Well this is exciting! Usually, when I have a piece over 1200 words I break it up into a series of posts to prevent reader fatigue – but I’ll keep my next long piece together so I can participate in this!

I have a 500 word limit here :-)

And what might be the difference between this and longform?

In addition to the longreads tag, we’re going to keep an eye on other tags that have been traditionally used for in-depth articles, long-form journalism, essays, interviews, and similar posts.

I like it! Nice idea.

OK, this might be a stupid question, but how can we tell if something is more than 1500 words? I can do pivot tables and budgets and cash flow projections up your ying yang, but ask me to judge how long a post is and I might get all hot and sweaty.

I’m going to be writing an essay about ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen soon.

Interesting initiative. But why limit to non-fiction? :) Oh. That was a question. rephrase: I believe you should open another category for short fiction. )

Max words?

No max word count—we usually see stories between 1,500-6,000 words.

Thanks Mark! I write a mix of short and long posts. Going in and tagging a few of the ones I am more proud of that fit this bill =)

We’re starting with nonfiction for our roundups, but we love short stories too, and you can use the longreads tag for both fiction and nonfiction.

Good question! In your WordPress editor, there’s a “word count” in the bottom left.

Would you consider posts in other languages? Most of my posts are way over 1500 words.

We would love to consider all languages.

I like Espied, but to make the most of it I think you need the custom design upgrade, and a knowledge of CSS to make subtle changes. Still, great team, and wonderful versions here.

Although it isn’t a layout I would choose for my style of blog, it looks really good!

Just using it. Awesome theme! Thanks!

Extremely flexible. I am using Sidespied as a poetry blog

I need a blog-for-dummies. I want to post pictures, videos, art, rants, famous sayings of family members, a “crock full of nuts” folder for the verbally insane, a place for memoir chapters by family members and friends. How can I get help with this? Thanks, Frankie

Nice, I love your job. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Hi — You might want to start with our series of easy, step-by-step tutorials over at Learn.WordPress.com. They cover all the basics, and more — from creating posts and pages to tweaking the design of your blog.

The Custom Design upgrade definitely expands the options one has for creating a tailor-made look — though the three sites featured here, none of which is using that upgrade, show that beautiful sites can be created with or without the upgrade.

This looks interesting, as a beginner blogger I would love to add pictures and illustrations but I am technology challenged.

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Sometimes I can’t resist a challenge. I have waited with baited fingers to hear about Blogging U. Nothing like a blog challenge to kick off June.

Tally-hoooooo!!!!

Hi, is this challenge only in english language ? Regards

The instructions and assignments are all in English, yes, but you can respond in whatever language you choose.

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Getting ready for the challenge to write each day!

Sounds good. I’m already a daily writer but inspiration will be great for new posts.

I’m looking forward to the daily challenge beginning June lst.

It begins June 2, so don’t worry when you don’t see an assignment on June 1 ;

I’m looking forward to cultivating good writing habits. I can’t wait for the writing assignments and chatting, connecting with other participants and getting feedback and support. I invariably love a good challenge, so bring it on :-).

Quite a terrific idea, sounds like a lot for someone like me just starting. However I almost anything is worth a try! Thanks!

Will there be snacks?

Actually looking forward to this. Am also going to re-blog.

I’ve been contemplating doing something like this but I’m really new to word press and I’m inky just starting to creat a blog here that I’m truly proud of. https://kaboodlemum.wordpress.com.
I’m on holiday from June 2nd for a week so won’t be able to post anything that week. Are these types of competitions run regularly? X

Yes, we have them frequently on The Daily Post — you can learn more here: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/

You can take it at your own pace, so welcome!

Okay, I’m in.

Just brain snacks. Well, that, and the weekly pizza party.
;)

I’ve got to ask. You tell people to open links in a new tab. Which I also recommend.

So why didn’t you?

Can we please see an article on people using the Origin theme one day? It’s such a great theme and I would love to see it showcased, to see the things that different types (or fields) of bloggers are doing with it! Love your work WordPress. :)

Where and when can we sign up for the Blogging U writing course?

Great tips for this Memorial Day!

Right on The Daily Post! Here you go: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/writing-101-registration/

Thanks, and hello again. Wow what a terrific response!

Thanks for the suggestion! We’ll definitely add Origin to our list of future features candidates.

The point of the tip is to let people know they can have links open in new tabs — they certainly don’t have to! Different blogs and sites have different needs and goals, after all.

Looking forward to summer blog rec’s next week.

Worth the price of reading–open in new box! Why I didn’t I think of that years ago? Any other good tips like that I should be paying attention to? Thanks. :-)

Thanks for sharing these. Good to know about upcoming books and interesting to explore the different ways these authors have designed their WordPress sites.

Thank you so much for featuring my book and my blog, Ben! I am so thrilled! :D

Excellent! A lot to go on my to-read list, thanks for sharing.

(I hope to be on one of these lists someday myself… :) )

Ben please check out my ebook @lentaylorwrites. It’s available from Amazon. Thanks!

That’s awesome! I published my book—an article turned into a beautiful gift book—last week! WordPress is AMAZING!

Thanks, Seth, and congrats on your new book — may it be as successful as the post that inspired it!

Thanks for letting us know! Since I don’t read Tamil it would be hard for me to stay up to date on bloggers publishing books in that language. As the comments to these posts show, it’s already impossible to keep track of bloggers publishing in English — WordPressers are just that prolific!

Thanks for sharing your podcast and blog with us, Tim.

WordPress authors: take note! Tim: brace yourself!

Ben, my WordPress blog has prepared me well for publishing my first book this Spring; Christianity–What Love Has to do Wit It. My WordPress blog will be linked to my author web page promoting the book. Thanks!! WordPress is great!!

published my first book this year based upon articles at my blog – Footsteps of Mystery Babylon.
I love wordpress. :)

Ben. it really is heartening to see this great work being done by fellow WordPress authors. My own book, a non-fiction film anthology called “Documentary 101″ is not brand new (released last August) but new as an e-book last month. I look forward to visiting the sites of the authors above. Good luck to all…

I love seeing posts like this, it’s really heartwarming. Congratulations to everyone who has worked so hard to be published- and from the WordPress community too! Awh, you guys :3

Thanks for your updates on some interesting books to read Ben. If I may, I would like to ask you to support me in my efforts to draw in additional readers for my Sept released novel, “Courage Times Three.” It is a historical Christian fiction novel and very inspirational to all ages, genres. Friday I went “FREE” with my kindle version and have had 1200 downloads so far. Tomorrow is my last day of the FREE status. I hope you will post my novel and thanks for your other suggestions. I am interested in checking out one of them.

Sincerely, Brenda Brown Elliott, Author

It is certainly a very modern and dynamic look. The grid of pingback looks so cute! The only detail I’m not too excited about is the dark orange colour — it seems a bit too dark to me. On the whole though, it’s cool :cool:

I like the look, but it’s 6:10 AM April 11th, I’m tapping my desk, where is my Daily Prompt for the day!

The fact that you’re tapping your desk in anticipation has us dancing a jig. It’s here: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/have-you-never-been-mellow/

What a great improvement! Works and looks much better on my iPad. Better organized, more informative, long overdue and much appreciated. I’m sure it was challenging, but lots of fun, to work on so kudos to all and thanks.

We can totally take a joke. Thanks for doing the prompts!

It’s a custom theme from our team designer, which takes into account the popular elements of this blog (the prompts and challenges, the most-accessed categories, etc.).

Who told you it is a “great” new look? It’s not. The orange is horrifying early in the morning and the format is unwieldy. OH well. I’ll either learn to deal or leave. Love the way you have only posted POSITIVE comments here.

Thanks for your feedback on the color, and speaking of color palettes, do poke around and click on posts. The color palette changes depending on the post you’re viewing, like the gray shade here on last week’s photo challenge, Threshold.

That’s awesome!

Good eye. The writing and photo challenges don’t show pingbacks — yet. We’re on it.

We’ve been working hard on this and will continue to iterate to make it the best reading experience it can be, across all devices. We like the emphasis on the daily prompts, and our two popular challenges for writing and photography, and are finding the best ways to make both new and our best archived content accessible to you. Post pages are cleaner and images are displayed better, and the font is much easier to read.

We’ll continue to work hard to make it a place you want to visit. Thanks for your feedback and keeping us on our toes.

I don’t like the new look at all. I’m sorry, but I find it to be too cluttery. The old one was better IMO.

I love the new design. It looks much better and is much easier to use as well.

Thanks for your feedback — what sections are too cluttery for you? We’ll continue to refine the design to make it the best experience we can.

This is awesome! I love poetry, so looking forward to do this!!

My first one is already posted!:-D

I’ve posted my first poem!

I’d think quality would suffer if you write one EACH day! How about 2 each week! You can find TEN tips for Writing Poetry on my blog. :-)

Argh! Wish I saw this before I started the A to Z April challenge. Doing both would be too much. Unless I combine them…Let me ponder on this.

Wish I was great at writing poetry. I shall give it a try this month.

A month for Poetry, A month for Poets/Poetesses, A month for me :)

Great, this is back. I did it last year and have been warming up for this year’s challenge! Go forward in verse…

One doubt: everything in english or are also allowed poems in other languages?

You’re free to write your poetry (and any content) in whatever language you choose.

You should inquire there — on their FAQ site, the email listed is napowrimonet-AT-gmail-DOT-com.

You might want to follow along on this month at http://www.napowrimo.net/ — each day, you’ll find inspiration as well as poetry-related resources. Here on WordPress.com, make sure you tag your poems this month with NaPoWriMo so others can find your newly published poetry, each day.

This is going to be helpful.

Great news! Thanks for making my blogging experience better!

I already noticed some changes today, and now I’m off to try the other features I haven’t noticed. :-)

Useful improvements. One no longer has to bite one’s nails trying to delete the gibberish which appears at the top of a post which has been copied and pasted from a Word document. Thanks!

I noticed this when I wrote my posts and was pleasantly surprised at the convenience the change had offered.The feature of Shapes as Round etc was good too.
Await more from wp

Image editing in text editor! Yay!

Love the new capabilities for image editing within the post. Yay!!! Thanks!

Unfortunately, you removed the ability to add a border and spacing with the new image editor. I am really disappointed by this.

Excellent stuff, will be most helpful when posting my photos.

Thanks Ben for sharing these wonderful WordPress goodies that will make the blog experience even better! With music too. Love your creativity at WordPress and talking of music you guys rock! Am nervously considering the purchase hahaha!

I just used the updated photo resizing edit and I love it…so easy and I can choose what size I want my images to be. Love the changes so far.

I’m SURE this all includes NO MORE “select all, click paragraph, go to text, go back to visual” to eliminate quadruple spacing between paragraphs, therefore, I am elated. :star:

Like, like, and like! I can’t wait to try out the new playlist, thanks!

Well, I better get busy with a post that utilizes all of these features simultaneously! I’ll call it Eager Beaver Blogger Hogger! ;-)

Nice improvements! Thanks a lot!

It will make it much easier to copy and paste documents. I had to spend time in formatting after I had pasted a document. I also had trouble with sizing the images I inserted, Would love to use the new feature.

Nice features. Great job!!!

Totally love the improvements, can’t wait to start with them, specially the play list!

This is brilliant, thank You for making things much easier.

I miss the aggressive “evil” devil smiley. Now there is a grinning smiley with this code. :evil:

:cool:

<3 Great to have these – now I have a reference guide for all the characters :D

Wonderful. Another blogger and I were just discussing how much we’d like some additional emoticons a couple of days ago. Very nice work.

:oops:

Burrito?!? :burrito:
Awesome.

What a nice surprise! Thank you!! :) <3 :) <3 :)

:-)

Sweet, now everything can be a little more awesome ;)

:burrito: ! Can’t wait to figure out some more (feel free to share any you figure out)!

Does it help to add hash tags to blog posts? #DSalernoTravel

Thanks ~

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 12:57:16 +0000 To: [email protected]

There are so many wonderful themes yet I can’t seem to find the right one for my blog. I’m using “The Traveler’s Theme” which is great but the “Follow this blog” button is buried at the bottom of the page as are the ads. I’d like to create a sidebar but this theme doesn’t offer that. Any suggestions would be most helpful.

I’d recommend you browse the Theme Showcase by layout: you could narrow it down to themes with a left sidebar, a right sidebar, or both, and then narrow it down even further by selecting other features or styles you prefer.

We recommend simply tagging your posts. Adding the # symbol might make sense if you’re referring specifically to a Twitter-originated hashtag, but it doesn’t add anything else in terms of making your post easier to find for others.

Looks amazing, I might change mine to this one.. The only thing that doesn’t convince me is the color.

You might want to try it out, then, with different-colored custom backgrounds. If you go to the Customizer, you can preview any background image you already have (or upload a new one). You can also try out different background colors in the Colors panel there (to save them you’ll need the Custom Design upgrade).

Thanks for this, after trying so many themes, I finally take Singl as my best choice for its clean, tidy, modern and minimal-style. It’s so beautiful! :D

I am soaking this all in, thanks for the tips!

Great post!

Nice!
I especially like the Gridspace theme.
I’ll have to keep that in mind when it comes time to make a portfolio.
Thanks!

Thank you very much for this great suggestions. I plan to redo my Websites in the near future.

I use the Porfolio theme and really like it.

I think it is relatively easy to add a portfolio section to many themes. Just create additional pages for the portfolio section with each page limited to a particular subject. Then go through the media library and create a gallery.

Yep, the tiled gallery options make it easy to display your photos or artwork in a sleek way on any post or page.

There’s no WP theme really great for potfolios. Unfortunately! I think, for instance, that built-in social links modules should there be in every theme as an option.

Refreshing look. Great.

Great info. I am new to blogging so this is helping me to learn everything I can!

Many themes, especially those released from 2013 on, do have social links built-in — take a look at Ryu, or Kiore Moana.

That’is right. I also like the possibility to randomize the headers

I love customizing my own header! Thanks for this!

Nice advice!

Great advice! I’m about to do that myself

I certainly love themes with custom header option. I’ve stuck to my same custom header for awhile and simply not making the effort to rotate or use a different header. It’s partially because it’s taken from Nature and timeless –to me.

Thanks for the tips! I’ve been working on my header and it’s looking better than when I first started, but I’m hoping to improve it even more!

Thanks for the tips. Its really helpful.

Definitely a good idea

This is really an amazing feature, specially for new WP users

Thanks for the article…it proved to be very beneficial

Nice! Tahnks for this tips.

I have my own custom header, I think it’s great! Good advice.

Nice tip, A picture is worth a thousand words.

Already customize my own header image. =)

Gonna have to try this out

Lovely ( two times over) ! Thanks for keeping us supplied with beautiful themes that showcase our content so well. Best wishes to the Themes Team for a holiday season full of love and laughter.

I’m not a spiritual person, but I like Spirit’s fonts and its basic layout structure. Can we hope to see a season-independent variation of it in the future?

I REALLY like Spun…thanks!

Wait, Spun is not new, it was already there in the theme archives.

Spirit seems to include all of the underlying structural elements I love about San Kloud. If and when the time comes for a change, it will be high on my list.

That’s a neat idea; we’ll keep it in mind for a future child theme. Thanks!

Ahh, you got me! It’s been on WordPress.com for several days, but we hadn’t had a chance to announce it ’til now.

Spun is a beautiful, unique theme. Caroline, I love your design work!

Love these! Thanks for thinking outside the box!

I’ve been writing all week about low-salt Thanksgiving options for people like me who have been forced onto a low-salt diet by health issues. The quest to cut the salt all starts by buying a fresh turkey without any salt solutions injected into it. You can read more at nosaltnofatnosugar.com

Like warm apple pie..

Yummie, all that food isn’t good for me, haha!

The Brazilian Collard Greens looks good.

I pretty much just followed every single one of these.

Yum!!! Mouth-watering morsels! Slurp!

I’m sure there are lots of food blogs to choose from but I’m sad that our blog isn’t one of them (www.onerecipetwokitchens.wordpress.com). We’re unique because we’re a mother/son team who cook the same recipe but live in different cities. Check us out!

Really nice featuring food blogs here, hope to see more of them in the future

I just gained five pounds looking at this. It’s worth it!

Nice to read about blogs with a different take on food. Usually I visit them just for recipes but these are unique. Thanks.

As you correctly guessed, there are thousands of great food blogs on WordPress.com, and this roundup is anything but exhaustive. On the contrary, I hope this post inspires our users to look for other great sites they might not have visited yet. Thanks for sharing your blog.

Now I’m totally addicted to Retraction Watch.

Thank you WordPress.com — this is truly appreciated! Nice write-up, Paul, of a very complicated issue

Thank you, Thank you for this post. Protect Freedom of Expression Yes!!

Freedom of expression cannot justify someone’s violation of a legitimate copyright.

I appreciate your difficulty, but there’s always a chance that you (WP) will see “copyright abuse” in cases where you disagree with the views of those filing the complaint.

Good work!

Stuff like this makes me glad I’m a WordPress blogger. Stuff like this is good to know.

Thank-you very much for taking action!

Outstanding! I applaud this decision to fight back against those who abuse the true intention of the DMCA — to protect rightful Copyright owners from infringement.

This sort of “don’t abuse our bloggers with foolish takedown notices, or you’ll be sorry!” — is precisely why I prefer to pay to blog on WordPress.com instead of going it on my own in the wilds.

Individual bloggers could not take this important, unifying, stand against bad actors, with the same force, effort and effect. Automattic can, and will, and has the guts to stand up for doing the right thing while still protecting original intent and the written word. Thank you!

Oh, and don’t fret! WordPress.com is still a “DMCA safe harbor” for publishers!

http://bolesblogs.com/2010/10/28/wordpress-com-is-a-dmca-safe-harbor-for-blog-publishers/

Refreshing to hear that WordPress is actively taking a stance against these fraudulent cases of censorship. I’ll second that exclamation of “Protect Freedom of Expression!”

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Mh… I like the idea… but I will probably do the NaNoWriMo

I’m gonna try and push myself to do the impossible. I will try to keep blogging at least 1,000 words per day as well as write 2,500 words for two books. I will try…might need a hell lot of coffee or I will have to teach my brain to use the power of cell phone blogging.

Fabulous idea. Not a cats chance in hell of managing to do this this year. But good luck to everyone who tries. Would love to follow someone who is going to attempt this.

Great post and awesome challenge! Thanks for the hints and inspirational resources.

However, all the hype about NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo leaves me wondering why November is the month to do all these demanding things… Most writers (and people in general) catch the blahs this time of year. I think the writing / blogging community should start something in January, when we’re all high on New Years’ resolutions!!

well, what do you know? I’m gonna take you up on that challenge!

Challenge accepted!!!!

I am going to try for a blog a day this month!

This is great way for a writer to increase the speed of thoughts to be pen down. However, I was trying to understand how does one get the badge as mentioned above. Is there any prizes to be won if done . And would the curator of Blogher would get to know our participation. Lets us the details or link we can read exactly each each details.

I’ll be doing this this month. Hopefully it won’t end horribly.

If you follow one of the links to BlogHer you can find the code for the badges, register for the official blogroll, and see the requirements for being entered to win prizes — they’re giving away iPad minis, as well as passes to the 2014 Annual BlogHer Conference!

All those of you jumping into the ring — congrats, and good luck!

I really enjoyed reading about how the blog changed with time. I think it was a great response. The daily posts of people reading is such a fantastic idea. I can’t wait to get to know more about biblioklept, it sounds like such a fun blog!

Unreturned books on my shelf:
1. Jack Kerouac: On the Road (maybe it’s fitting for it to stay away from home), 2. Thomas Mann: Death In Venice, 3. Hugh Cornwell: The Stranglers, song by song, 4. Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Postmodern Condition (an unreturned library book of a friend who left the country)
Books yet to be returned to me? I don’t remember and so I don’t care. That’s how it should be – let the written word wander free

“Good books are like dinosaur tracks in the bedrock—they leave impressions that last forever.” —Martin Land, Adoption Detective

Love this blog name!

Unreturned books on my bookshelf
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere – Oops wondered why I hadn’t seen that friend in a while.
Sylvia Plath: Ariel – Sorry to the place I used to work in.
A Catcher in the Rye: A way of remembering my old school.
As a self confessed literary geek I do get very angry when my books are not returned. Hypocritical I know!
I loved this post. Looking forward to exploring Biblioklept further. I have a food blog called http://www.surreyKitchen.wordpress.com and the most literary recipe Ive done so far was the one I posted as an obituary for Seamus Heaney. Check it out. It’s fun and one I think he would have approved of.

I like this blog but am personally biblioklept averse, I know where all my books are and also all my DVDs. I know precisely who has not returned a book I have lent out, I stay friends with these people and if I do see my book on their shelves, I take it back! That said, this is a very interesting blog for other reasons

Very interesting interview. I like his advice on learning from your readers instead of placing yourself as an authority figure. I think that is great advice because it helps the blogger to grow.

Thank You for a very informative article Ben. i am a avid reader and have just started blogging.

I love these interviews with individuals from the WP community, they’re so interesting! I also adore the name of the blog

That was refreshing and entertaining–nicely improved my afternoon. I need a library check-out system, I think. Books that once lived snugly on my shelves are now living lives all over the place and do not stay in touch…

Awesome theme, good luck with sales!

The last weeks the free themes are soooooooooooooo…..few.
Please dont’ tell that “more free themes are coming”.
I think that the premium themes are great but so expensive.

What about themes that costs 15-35$?

Good luck, looking good! Still learning all the different features on mine. =)

This sounds like such a great workshop. I remember journaling when I was growing up, its a great outlet – regardless of how old you are. Glad to see privacy being emphasized.

Are you going to produce a webinar for kids, or post something online? My middle school students will be s starting blogs in two weeks, it would be great for them to see.

That is awesome! I just set all my 6th grade students up a blog for our class. They have really been active and enjoy having their very own blog. I’m having a hard time keeping up with them! #digitalkids

Hi Douglas,

We don’t have plans to produce a webinar for kids at the moment — though that’s an awesome idea.

I’m thirteen and I LOVE blogging on WordPress. I think it is a great idea to get more kids involved!

My 10 and 8 year old sons just started to blog. How I wish we could go to the summit!

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What a great idea. I think I’ll approach some of the teachers at my school and see if there’s an interest in teaching some of our children how to start a blog. Maybe I’ll make it a club.

That sounds like a great idea. I wish i blogged when i was younger. I’m now encouraging my siblings to start blogging.

Hi, I am now 10 and I started blogging on WordPress since I was 5. Blogging is fun but I also need to work very hard. WordPress has been very helpful, thanks for the great experience.

Brilliant. Will activate this later.

Thanks for preparing and publishing this very useful article for those WordPress.com bloggers who have domain mapping upgrades as I do for my blogs. I’ll be pleased to recommend the new Email Forwarding feature to my readers.

Perfect timing– thanks!

Great post, just what I needed! Cheers!

Making it simple and effective, i love it..!!

managing emails is one tough job..!!

Great – I have just been thinking about how to do this – perfect timing

Thank you. Just activated them!

This is brilliant! I’ve waited for a feature like this forever! You guys rock!

If you already use a third-party solution, but want to start using this feature instead, simply remove the DNS records for email under “Manage DNS”. The “Manage Emails” link will appear as described above, and you can start using it right away.

Oh yes, that’s fantastic. Just set it up. Have been waiting for this for a long time. Thank you WordPress!

Thank you! (:

I’m definitely going to give that a good look in a bit! Thanks for always improving stuff.

This is fantastic. I have been blogging on WordPress for a little over a year and have found most the tutorials and teaching info useful and user friendly (I have very little tech knowledge). I am still learning and there are areas I would like more help with. I’m looking forward to checking out the new and improved learn WordPress posts.
Thanks!

Awesome as always, conscientious, thoughtful, and oh so down to earth. Y’all rock! Kudos!

This is great, thank you for the information.
This will come in very useful as we share the WordPress love ☺

Amado Gonzalez

Fantastic! I’ve been blogging on WordPress since 2007; added a second blog in 2009. I use WordPress every day. But like everything in the modern world (at least everything successful for any length of time), WordPress is constantly emerging. I feel like I know a lot about WordPress, but I also feel there’s much I don’t know or haven’t had time to try yet. For instance, I’ve yet to upgrade to posting videos on my blogs, but it’s on my list.

Last night, I was trying to set up a Web site for a political campaign. As usual, it’s a tedious process with many details. I was using Twenty-Twelve, and after a few hours I realized it wasn’t what I needed. I’ll have to use a different theme. I have a short list, including Responsive and Academia, and I’m pretty sure one of them will be just right. What I’m saying is, a source that helps you LEARN is invaluable.

I really wish you’d stop fiddlling with this – you just make it more difficult each time.

We haven’t updated learn.wordpress.com in a very looooong time, so not sure what you mean — we haven’t updated/fiddled with it in a while. This new tutorial site is much more detailed and clear in explaining steps to do a variety of tasks. We do feel it’ll be easier, not more difficult, to follow.

I so wish I could somehow join the WordPress.com support team. (Happiness Engineer!)

Thank you so much for the update to this excellent step by step tutorial for learning WordPress.com blogging.

Some new bloggers bypass the aids provided for starting their blogs and dive head first into the deep end. That means they tend to end up in the support forums needing help. We Volunteers answering support forum questions post the link to this useful tutorial into threads many times every day.

As many bloggers have benefited from using the first edition, I’m sure many more will benefit from using the updated version.

Thanks for the information. I will check it out. Interesting. Thanks. Love to learn.

WordPress gets better and better. Thanks for all the new themes as well.

Thanks for the feedback, John! You’re right — WordPress is constantly evolving, and even if we’ve got a few years of WordPressing under our belts, there’s always something new to learn. Each day. I love your attitude!

Thanks, you can always learn more or find something you forgot.

Thanks so much, timethief — we look forward to seeing how users respond to this revamped version.

Is this something that can assist those that use WordPress.org for self hosting?

Thanks, this is great. Typically we go to unofficial blogs or youtube to learn how to do new things in wordpress. Great to have an official learning blog from wordpress.

Hi there — no, this site is for blogs hosted on WordPress.com. For self-hosted blogs, there’s the Support Forums as well as Learn.wordpress.org, which is a new site and work-in-progress.

Oh, and I forgot to mention WordPress.tv, too!

This is great. Learn is very well laid out and clear. This change is actually helpful.

Well, shoot. The hubs and I are missing ALL SXSW this year. Enjoy and have a Shiner for me!

What a cool event! Not that I need an excuse to visit Austin. Thanks for the info.

Funny, I live about an hour from there and have been thinking how I should avoid Austin this week because of all the crowds. Ha! Am I lame or what? Y’all have fun and be safe!

Hi Michelle, Thanks for the invitation but I am already committed to another conference. Do you have any other similar events planned for the rest of this year as I book myself up months in advance. This is exactly what I have been looking for and I am so disappointed that I won’t be with you. Where are these great events posted so that I can go online and look this up myself, Thanks again Michelle , Automatic is the best! Warmly fellow intrepid blogger Charlotte Ortega

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Oh how I miss Austin, Stubbs and SXSW! Sounds like it will be great!

This sounds great!!! I wish I was going – it is my spring break next… maybe I’ll come!

Reblogged this on stuwest.org and commented:
I’ll be there Friday to Sunday.

I could go for some Texas weather, BBQ, new music, Tito’s Vodka and boys in cowboy boots right now . Props to SXSW for all of the folk bands on the lineup this year!

One page you can check for upcoming WordPress events is the WordCamps site — if you’re interested in getting involved in and meeting people within the WordPress community, that’s a great site to poke around.

Alas, no Texas trip for me, although Austin is one of my favorite cities — especially 6th street and the Driscoll Hotel! I lived in Dallas for six years and visited Austin often. For those of us who can’t make it, I hope you’re planning a wrap-up post of the event so we can live vicariously through your keyboard. Have fun, enjoy the great music and REPRESENT! …sorry, that sounded realllly cracker-like…

I would love to go. Dang! It would be great to meet the gang and learn what will be coming down the pike for WP users in 2013. I’ll have to wait until it comes to Denver. Have fun!

Gonna be at SXSW & COTA, hope to see some of you there! Going to post on LaMinunat!

I will come if I can figure out where in the H to park. Austin parking is a nightmare.

Thanks for the invite and wish we were going, a lot of great content to cover. Wonder if cartoon characters have to show ID? Cheers!

Where in Texas is the Trade show where this is happening? Natalie Scarberry

I’m there!

Hi Natalie — SXSW is in Austin, Texas!

I love the Driscoll — a gorgeous place. Loved having a cocktail in their lounge up the stairs from the lobby, too