Category Archives: Wordpress
Free blogs managed by the developers of the WordPress software.
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Happy 2nd anniversary, Thought Box!
Today, May 30, marks the second anniversary of this blog. I wouldn’t have known and the day would have passed by just normally, but thanks to Google Calendar, the fact that it was already my blog’s 2nd anniversary gave me quite a shock!
I started writing here two years ago, and now this blog has accumulated:
- 176 posts
- 22 categories
- 586 tags, which I desperately need to clean up
- 313 comments, and best of all, no spam, thanks to Akismet!
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
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WordPress: Unblocked.
WordPress has just been unblocked at the place that I work.
One small step for me, one giant step for net neutrality.
Thank you WordPress!
That’s the newly redesigned WordPress bar (I’m not sure what it’s called.) It looks a lot prettier and gives the user more control over all of his blogs. Now you can write a new blog post on one blog, then jump to another blog and moderate comments on it. Awesome functionality!
And one more cool thing: it floats on top so you don’t have to
I love it! Thank you WordPress 
Reblogs now a feature in WordPress!
As you may have noticed, from time to time I reblog posts from other websites. What’s great now is that WordPress now knows that “we all like to reblog.” Therefore, they’ve added a “like” button.
Congrats WordPress. One small step for you and one giant advancement for the rest of us
Something new!
I was browsing through my WordPress administration pages yesterday and this is what I found:
Looks like more blog statistics, but this time, it’s spam comments!
I’m glad I found this. I’ve always hated spam and kept track of it here. Now I can check my blog’s spam history (which really sucks) among other things such as comments that are inadvertently marked as spam or comments that were spam but were not marked as spam.
Overall, I think Akismet has been doing a wonderful job of keeping up with those nasty spammers. Now, they give me a nice dashboard where I can track all this. Thank you again, Akismet!
Thank you WordPress Theme Team!
2010 Theme
In a very short amount of time the WordPress Theme Team has provided WordPress.com users with a plethora of new themes. It seems like new themes are coming out every week! As I preview these themes, they seem so much newer and fresher than the old ones. I have still yet to find one that matches this blog perfectly.
In the meantime, here’s some of the new themes that have been released:
These are all fantastic themes. Thank you WordPress Theme Team!
A Look Back at 2009 on Thought Box
All statistics shown below are for the entire year of 2009 AD. Read the rest of this entry
