The content on the Dashboard has been significantly redone to give you something to enjoy this weekend. Thanks to some code-fu from Andy we are now tracking a lot of interesting stats from across all the WordPress.com blogs.
The first thing you’ll notice is we’re highlighting the top blogs of the day across the network. Next you’ll see where there used to be the WordPress Planet feed we now highlight the most popular posts of the day and the latest from around the site.
I’ve also added links to the top blogs to the front page of WordPress.com.
A lot of you have let us know you loved the “community posts” feature we had in the activity bar so we’ve expanded in ways that hopefully make the dashboard a much more interesting place for you. As a nice side-effect, the dashboard loads about ten times faster now.
As always, let us know what you think and any thoughts or suggestions you may have. It’s getting better every day. :)Â
24 responses so far ↓
scott // September 10, 2005 at 3:54 am
I was hoping you would implement a top blogs or posts code into wordpress.com. The site is coming along amazingly.
Agaponeo // September 10, 2005 at 5:51 am
Interesting… since I think that the dashboard should be more customizable…
donncha’s blog » Blog Archive » Top Blogs! // September 10, 2005 at 7:13 am
[...] As Matt has mentioned already, the dashboard has gone through a big shake-up thanks to Andy! Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like: [...]
anonymuis » This feature is good // September 10, 2005 at 7:44 am
[...] Here on the dashboard I can see the top wordpress.com blogs and the top posts from around wordpress.com. I start to enjoy wordpress.com just now!
Thanks Matt for enabling this feature and thanks Andy for the code-fu [...]
amar // September 10, 2005 at 8:15 am
This is good. Just two days on wordpress and this place is just cool. And I like the AJAX thing where we can drag around the boxes in the write section, though it did remind me of the google/ig page… I keep wondering what all can be done using AJAX.
As Agaponeo mentioned the dash board should be customizable where I can put the most used features of wordpress.com admin section.
WordPress.com is indeed the most unique and the best blog site I have ever seen. Everything is great about wordpress (except the current restriction on change of templates which I believe is just a passing phase and will be available soon).
Keep up the good work Matt and thanks for prividing such a wonderful blog site.
Cheers
Amar
miklb // September 10, 2005 at 9:37 am
Ugh. My trackback didn’t work. Anyway, I was saying, it’s not a scrolling ticker, but something quite better. FYI, the top blogs at wordpress.com list, the left half of the hotblogs div is being eaten by the content div. (I think)
Chris // September 10, 2005 at 4:42 pm
Can you send me an invite, Matt? I’m had a Xanga blog, but stopped using it because of it’s lack with features and customization.
Thanks.
Aaron Brazell // September 10, 2005 at 6:58 pm
Perhaps I’m blind but I just now, like 5 minutes ago, upgraded to the latest nightly and don’t see the changes mentioned….
mdawaffe // September 10, 2005 at 7:26 pm
Aaron, the changes Matt mentions are specific to WordPress.com.
amar // September 10, 2005 at 7:55 pm
I just noticed that in the upload section we get to see the URL of the file immediatly after it has been uploaded. Is there any way I can see what all files I have uploaded till now or delete files I no longer need
Scott's Blog // September 11, 2005 at 1:14 am
testing trackbacks
New Dashboard for WordPress.com users…the designing process of WordPress.com has been great and advancing very quickly.
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Star // September 11, 2005 at 11:21 am
This would be a lot more amazing if it were relevant to the majority of wordpress users
Abdul Online // September 11, 2005 at 3:42 pm
Even Better!
Great to see some extraordinary changes to wordpress dashboard. Now it shows Top blogs of the day, Top Posts and Recent posts which in my opinion is a great way to crawl around on other people’s blogs without much hassle. Great job Matt. I also …
Daniel "Cobalto" // September 11, 2005 at 3:51 pm
Please I neeed an Invite !!!!
please please please….
center of the miklb universe // September 11, 2005 at 8:32 pm
More wordpress.com goodness
It’s not a scrolling ticker in the admin bar , but the genuises behind wp.com have added some very cool community-esque features to the dashboard.(Thanks to daysies for the heads up) As the wordpress.com community grows, one can only catch so mu…
zhyfng // September 12, 2005 at 2:39 am
I think there should have more themes and it must be more wonderful if one can customize his style and add plug-in.
John Roberts // September 12, 2005 at 3:07 am
What defines a Top Blog? Traffic?
Matt // September 12, 2005 at 7:13 am
Right now it’s pretty weighted toward traffic but we’re going be tweaking the “interestingness” of the algorithm in the future.
Ryan B // September 12, 2005 at 11:24 am
Matt what is the thing to get to top posts/blogs? Is it the number of posts? Page views etc?
The Sandro T. Rafael Documentation Project » Sandro on WordPress.com // September 14, 2005 at 6:33 am
[...] By the way the new dashboard is really “beautiful� as reported here by Matt; and incredibly done by Andy. You have to see it to believe, hehehe. [...]
Sandro on WordPress » What so special in WordPress.com? // September 14, 2005 at 7:01 am
[...] The real fun begins when I logged on as admin; the new dashboard is very noticeable and many other features I’m not seeing in my normal wordpress I downloaded and installed in strdoc. [...]
eric on wordpress.com // September 15, 2005 at 9:29 pm
More on our dashboard
Okay, once we had the community posts list. Now. Top WordPress.com blogs today. Check. I once listed as the number 6, no big deal Fastest growing WordPress.com blogs. Check. These guys must’ve been awesome they’re growing that fast. Top …
La mate por un yogur » Invitado a WordPress.com // September 16, 2005 at 4:49 am
[...] En la zona de administración podemos observar un nuevo dashboard, a la vez que echamos en falta las opciones de edición de themes y plugins, esto último limitará bastante nuestra actividad. También veo escasos los 8 themes disponibles, 6 adicionales más los dos por defecto, y los cuales son imposibles de ampliar. Al menos, Pool es uno de los elegidos. [...]
Lorelle on WordPress » More News from WordPress, wordpress.com and WordPressMU // September 16, 2005 at 5:31 am
[...] Matt first announced new changes on the WordPressMU Dashboard, and Donncha showed off a screen shot of it. The code behind it was redesigned by Andy Skelton to feature the top blogs with the highest traffic from within the wordpress.com community, and the top posts from wordpress.com, again, the posts with the most traffic and probably some other criteria. We’re still waiting for details. [...]
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