"We hope you'll consider WordPress.tv not just a support resource, but a place to hang out and keep up with all the geeky goodness going on in the WordPress community," Matt Mullenweg said in a post on the launch of the new service.

The introductory video (embedded below) gives a brief overview of the site and calls out to the WordPress community for help; if you've got a video you think should be added, or want to request a specific tutorial, you can put in a request to Team Automattic.

Great move by Automattic in adding WordPress TV to their growing list of projects.

With WordPress for Android, you can also configure and manage multiple blogs, which is a great feature for those of us who post on more than one site.

Using the app is pretty straightforward. Simply enter your blog's URL and your credentials and you are ready to go. The actual editor is a pretty basic HTML editor, though unlike WordPress' early iPhone efforts, it's easy to add links and italicize or bold text. The app also makes it very easy to select and upload photos from the phone's photo gallery to a WordPress blog. While we were testing the app, however, selecting an image on the Nexus One regularly led to a crash.

Open Source App

Just like WordPress for iPhone and WordPress for BlackBerry, the Android app is an open source effort. Indeed, a large part of the code base for Wordpress for Android is based on the popular wpToGo application, which will now be discontinued in favor of the official WordPress app. Developers who are interested in helping out can find more information here.

The new WordPress App for iPhone supports both WordPress.com installations as well as self-hosted Wordpress.org blogs that are version 2.5.1 and above.

The app includes the following features:

- Embedded Safari previews of posts
- Full support for tags & categories
- Photo support for both camera phone pics and library photos
- Support for multiple blogs
- Ability to password protect a post, save as draft, or mark for later review
- Auto-recovery feature recovers posts interrupted by phone calls

You can see WordPress on the iPhone in action in the video below or check out screenshots here:

More information can be found on iphone.wordpress.org where you can review the Frequently Asked Questions and/or report issues with the application.

To download this app from iTunes, click here.

Thanks to Digital Inspiration for breaking the news.

Users who run their own WordPress installations were already able to ping Twitter whenever they posted an update thanks to plugins like Twitter Tools or Twitter Updater.

For WordPress.com, this is an important update, as it brings it up to par with light blogging services like Posterous, which have made autoposting to Twitter and other microblogging services a core feature of their products.

More WordPress Updates: New Theme Viewer and PicApps Partnership

The Wordpress team has been quite busy lately, besides launching Publicize, Wordpress also unveiled a new version of its theme viewer last week and two days ago, Wordpress also announced a partnership with PicApp that allows Wordpress users to embed premium images into their blogs.

The way reply-by-email comment support will work is pretty straightforward. After enabling support for emailing comments, and then turning on the 'Enable sending comment replies via email' option (both found on the Settings > Discussion page), you are set. The next time you get a comment, you will be notified by email, and you can respond simply by replying to the email with your text above the original comment.

While the iPhone app supports both Wordpress.com and self-hosted WordPress blogs, users with self-hosted blogs won't see any advantage in geotagging their blogs until WordPress releases its own geotagging plugin in a few weeks.

Geotags are Only Exposed in Your Blog's Feed (For Now)

For now, it doesn't look like there is any way to actually highlight a post's location directly in a post or on the blog, though WordPress.com's feeds are compatible with the GeoRSS format and the location attached to a post will appear in compatible services like Friendfeed. It would be nice if WordPress automatically added a link to your location on a map at the bottom of the post or gave you the option to display the location associated with this post in a sidebar widget.

Chances are, WordPress will do more with this in this information in the future. It would be nice, for example, if WordPress could highlight "nearby" posts or allowed users to browser post on a map.

How To Enable Geotagging in WordPress

By default, WordPress won't show your location, even on geotagged posts. To enable geotagging on Wordpress.com, you first have to enable it in the Wordpress.com settings for your blog. Look for the "Enable Geotagging" setting in the "Your Profile" tab.

To geotag your post from the iPhone app, simply click on the compass icon next to your new post's headline.

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Last month we compared the addition of the "like" feature to Facebook and this month, we can't help but notice that the subscription service brings WordPress a little bit closer to fellow self-publishing platform Tumblr.

The site has also made it simple to get instant notification of new blogs posts via instant messenger.

Keeping subscriptions to on-site blogs is an important part of the feature, as it increases the reason for becoming a WordPress member, instead of running your own installation of the blogging platform. The feature is also good news for some bigger publishers, like technology blogs TechCrunch and GigaOM, which are both hosted on WordPress. As WordPress notes in its blog post, RSS feeds and readers "can be tricky to manage for a non-technical person", and a subscription feature like this will make is easier for the non-techie.

More Verticals to Come?

Chances are that this won't remain WordPress.com's only attempt at establishing destination sites for different verticals. It's easy to imagine similar sites that aggregate the best travel blogs on WordPress.com, for example.

There are, of course, also some ulterior motives here besides helping readers to discover content on WordPress.com. If FoodPress becomes popular, it could not only bring more traffic to WordPress.com blogs, but also provide some SEO advantage to the sites that are listed there.

"The cause of the outage was a very unfortunate code change that overwrote some key options in the options table for a number of blogs. We brought the site down to prevent damage and have been bringing blogs back after we've verified that they're 100% okay."

Wordpress's hosted service, WordPress.com, was down completely for about an hour, taking blogs like TechCrunch, GigaOm and CNN with it.

WordPress.com is run from three data centers, in Chicago, San Antonio, Dallas, with 1,300 servers between them, up from three servers in 2005.

There are very few, if any, content management systems and blogging platforms with a praised, out-of-the-box search solution and WordPress is no exception. Just look on Google - there are about 10 million results for "WordPress search sucks" and nearly as many for "WordPress search plugin."

Today, there's one more addition to the search results for "WordPress search plugin," as customizable WordPress hosting service WP Engine and search-within-a-search engine yolink team together to provide a

"Native search on WordPress is not intuitive and is rarely helpful," said Joe Pagliocco, Business Development Manager at TigerLogic, the company behind the plugin's release. "Even Google Custom search - the next best thing - doesn't integrate well with your website's design, and it forcibly includes ads that don't make money for publishers. yolink Search for WordPress is our solution to these problems, finally providing an advanced, relevance-based search plugin that just plain works."

Yolink for WordPress is available in the WordPress plugin directory.

As we wrote earlier today though, consumers are not happy with how the mobile web is performing. Turning on mobile themes by default could be one small step towards solving that problem in the large territory that is WordPress.

Earlier this month WordPress announced that users can now more easily publish links to their new blog posts out into the world's defacto light-weight RSS reader, Twitter.

From the slow emergence of mobile reading and publishing to the unwillingness of carrierers to solve bandwidth problems, it's clear that the mobile web is still in its very early stages. For now, little things like this make a very big difference.

The "like" feature on the photo carousel follows on the heels of WordPress notifications that look exactly like Google+. Earlier this year, WordPress.com added a comment panel to show the most active posts and commenters, and 'follow' buttons and subscription widgets for its Web and Android apps.

This will take you to the photo itself. From there, you're free to "like" it.

The photo carousel will be available to WordPress.org users in the near future. In order to use it, users will first have to install the jetpack.me plugin.

Will the new "like" feature on photo carousels edge Wordpress closer to its super traffic-heavy competitor, Tumblr? Tell us what you think in the comments.

The company says it's now solved most of the major problems, squashed the bugs that caused 75% of the apps crashes and now it's time to add new features. New features added in the version now available in the App Store include: a "Quick Photo" feature that lets you snap and post a photo very fast, a mobile stats display, localization in 10 langues and more. This new version is the first one I've downloaded for awhile and I was thrilled to see how easy it was to add a self-hosted WordPress.org blog to the app now, too!

For some reason I'm getting an error when I look at the Comments or Pages tab in the interface (I'm not using a plug-in) but hopefully that will be resolvable. The parts of this app that are working in my very initial testing are awesome.

The new toolbar is a combination of the admin bar and the old Dashboard header. There's now support for drag-and-drop media uploads. The new dropdown menu has become a hover menu. WordPress has also added touch support for iPad. WordPress users who have felt frustrated over the co-editing experience will find this update especially satisfying. Now, the red bar that tells you if someone is editing the post will only pop up if another is actually in the post. The 3.3 version has also added a Tumblr importer so that users can quickly bring their Tumblr blog into the mix.

WordPress 3.2, which was released on July 4, has been downloaded 14 million times. The new version 3.3 is available for download now.

Integration with WordPress

PollDaddy and WordPress were already working on integrating PollDaddy into the WordPress.com platform, and, as PollDaddy's founders put it, "in the end, it just seemed like the perfect fit for us to join them." As has been the standard for Automattic's acquisitions, PollDaddy will continue to operate as a standalone platform and the company will continue to support and develop it on other blog and social networking platforms.

WordPress.com has already integrated PollDaddy's functionality for its users, who can now easily add surveys to any blog post, which will surely give PollDaddy's user numbers a significant boost. Automattic is also making a PollDaddy plugin available for self-hosted WordPress blogs.

Here is a short overview of how the WordPress.com integration works: