by Matt
Global Dashboard
This is part of a larger movement we’ve been working on a long time, but one of the first steps is now here.
You now have a global dashboard at dashboard.wordpress.com that contains everything you’re used to finding under your dashboard tab.
What’s new? Before, people who didn’t have a blog but just an account didn’t have any sort of dashboard so they couldn’t edit their password, get their API key, upload an avatar, track their comments, or any of the other fun stuff you can do under your dashboard.
If you have a blog here, this probably isn’t a big or noticeable change.
Now blog-less users are first-class in the WordPress.com world, which is good because they’re over 100,000 of you!
March 5th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Great Going !!
March 5th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Thanks, guys.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:55 am
Great news! I’m still trying to figure this all out being a new user, but it helps. Trust me.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:59 am
That great!!!
March 5th, 2007 at 2:19 am
right on! and my list for coming and remaining at WP keeps growing! its a good think i’m using virtual paper!
March 5th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Bravo Matt. Thanks!
March 5th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Now if I only had a way to jump between the different dashboards of my blogs. Of course, I’m a new WordPress user so there may be a way to do this that I haven’t figured out as yet.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:27 am
There goes one more; under WordPress’s kitty. Matt, who worked on this one? I guess Mr. Sharma contibuted some part of his suggestive decisions too. Great going!
March 5th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Way to go Matt! Thanks!
March 5th, 2007 at 2:36 am
Interesting. Will check it out. Was a little worried at first when I didn’t see both of my blogs’ dashboard.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:06 am
Good job! Will definately help our readers stay in touch with all of our blogs. Great Job WordPress, and it is always nice working with you guys and being a part of something so great!
March 5th, 2007 at 3:08 am
great!
March 5th, 2007 at 3:09 am
On wordpress.com I can’t just get to my blog. I have to go to my blog via address bar then press dashboard instead of clicking on my blog’s name via wordpress.com. It’s very annoying.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Excellent addition, Matt. We have lots of users who don’t have blogs but who do have WP.com accounts. They will be very happy with this!
March 5th, 2007 at 3:13 am
uh… okay. *shrug*
March 5th, 2007 at 3:16 am
Thats neat!
March 5th, 2007 at 3:19 am
Nice!
March 5th, 2007 at 3:23 am
Wow.. Growing… Growing..
Keep growing with innovative ideas..
Best smile,
Zeezat
March 5th, 2007 at 3:32 am
As always, WordPress continues to enhance what they offer… Thanks again!
March 5th, 2007 at 3:34 am
Over 100,000 blogless WordPress.com users. Wow! Akismet must be doing well.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:36 am
Awesome, although it doesn’t apply to me..
March 5th, 2007 at 3:40 am
wow agreat!
March 5th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Nice Feature….
March 5th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Great idea!
March 5th, 2007 at 3:56 am
Please, please, unless you’re from North Yorkshire, get rid of that flat cap.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:01 am
kewl man…
March 5th, 2007 at 4:02 am
Excellent! Way to take care of folks.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:04 am
Always enhancing, nice work!
Peace
March 5th, 2007 at 4:09 am
It makes sense now after reading this post. Like others, I was confused for about 5 minutes scratching my head. Maybe a sticky in the forums for a little while?
Trent
March 5th, 2007 at 4:21 am
sweet. thanks for the continued work
March 5th, 2007 at 4:25 am
Great! How do you guys make a living? You must spend hours each day on WordPress… I’m really glad you do but wonder what finances you. You are making a huge difference to the world though, if that’s any help. I think blogging must be as important a next step as the invention of the Printing Press, and you guys are right at the centre of it all! You’re making it happen.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Yeah … i dont like it.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:33 am
gr8…….thanks…
March 5th, 2007 at 4:34 am
Ach! The English teacher has to offer a minor correction. “They’re” = they are. It would have been accurate to say “there are”, which (after a discussion with the English teacher I married) can’t be contracted.
Nonetheless, love the great work!
March 5th, 2007 at 4:35 am
very useful especially for Akismet users
March 5th, 2007 at 4:51 am
Useless in my view!Why they want an account without a blog?
March 5th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Splendid!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:02 am
…which is why i just am so in love with wordpress…
March 5th, 2007 at 5:05 am
What a great idea!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:08 am
Good for end-users , who don’t have full privilege…
March 5th, 2007 at 5:09 am
That’s a great idea. Any hints on what the “larger movement” might be?
March 5th, 2007 at 5:16 am
coooooooooool !
March 5th, 2007 at 5:22 am
i wonder why my blog name doesn’t appear on my homepage anymore.
quite confusing though.
March 5th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Thanks!!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:39 am
So this has a lot to do with people who needed an API key to use Akismet, right?
It does go well in the large move toward enhancing the community aspect of WordPress.com, making it more powerful than self-hosted WordPress in some respects (instead of being just a subset of what WP can be).
Now, if we go OpenID, cross-platform commenting support à la CoComments, MySpace-like content, and Facebook-like networks, we’d be “in business.”
March 5th, 2007 at 5:47 am
goood job !!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:48 am
You guys are awesome!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Really Good Matt
March 5th, 2007 at 5:55 am
BTW, I think it’s confusing that the “Global Dashboard” link is under the user name where the blog list use to be. For a second, I couldn’t find the dashboard to my blogs because I clicked that and got my “Global Dashboard” which has no reference to me having blogs.
In other words, if you’re a blogger, go to wordpress.com, sign in, but DO NOT click the “Your Dashboard” link under your name. That takes you to the “global dashboard.” Instead. look on your menu bar for the “My Dashboard” dropdown and select the dashboard from there.
Paul
March 5th, 2007 at 5:56 am
great love it
March 5th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Nice!… Thanks.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:01 am
Cool.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:01 am
thank u very much. very easy to navigate and extremely simple.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Yay!
March 5th, 2007 at 6:08 am
[...] wordpress lives upto expectations. recently it has updated dashboard. the dashboard is very simple and easy to navigate. there is not too much links and stuff on front page. great work. thanks to wordpress guys. you can view it HERE. [...]
March 5th, 2007 at 6:10 am
cool … thanks
March 5th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Nice, the meta-conversations that have been going on between bloggers on WordPress so far are amazing, and having more people able to participate is good for everyone.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:14 am
I have a blog, but your global dashboard (blog stats) say I dont have 1. This is really weird.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:24 am
wow. that’s great.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:28 am
nice one!
March 5th, 2007 at 6:32 am
I find that I don’t get all my tabs and that the only way to get to a particular blog dashboard and all its tabs I have to open a post. Is there a better way? I preferred the old way I think.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:39 am
Nice.
??? Now you’ve got me waiting in anticipation on what you’re going to do! I can’t wait!
Thank you so much for what y’all are doing with WordPress!!!!!!!!!!
March 5th, 2007 at 6:40 am
Sounds cool
March 5th, 2007 at 6:59 am
thanks.. it’s good
March 5th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Ooh, how nice
March 5th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Why these 100.000 people don’t the get a blog ?
Its so easy and so fun !
March 5th, 2007 at 7:22 am
A really Good Thing… But Why create an accout, without create a blog? :S
March 5th, 2007 at 7:34 am
Nice job
March 5th, 2007 at 8:48 am
very cool!! THNX
March 5th, 2007 at 8:57 am
I’m still trying to find the differences lol.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:10 am
good
March 5th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Good idea.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Thankzzzzz
March 5th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Nice work guys!
March 5th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Wow yay!
March 5th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Nice Work
March 5th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Thats a good idea
March 5th, 2007 at 11:16 am
I prefered the oldiest way, with the blog list after loggin in …
March 5th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Thanks for this. I think it’s in the right direction. But since I naturally work with multiple blogs simultaneously, I guess I’m looking for a more complete solution, where you can edit the look-n-feel of all blogs from a central place rather than going to the dashboard of the particular site. I’m sure this will happen in the future, so thanks again.
March 5th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Thanks
March 5th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
for starters that should go out well!! tnx guys for this one! looks like more wordpressers will come out of the blue.
toodles.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Nice addition … a little help needed though … prior to the advent of the Global Dashboard I was able to open two browser windows with my blog in each so that I could be writing a post in one window and checking for a link or something else on my blog in another window. Now when I open the second browser window I get the Global Dashboard but without all the options of my normal dashboard. Not even a place to click “view site”.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Great.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
great!
March 5th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
greate, thanks!!!!!
March 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
More reasons to love WordPress. Thank you!
March 5th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Nice - I have 3 of the 100,000 - I will let them know.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Seems to be a pretty nice thing, well go ahead. MIC
Especially tracking of comments was kinda lousy
March 5th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
thanks!!! it is very good!!!
March 5th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
really good!!
March 5th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Great move! Things are easier now - as far as I surfed to!
Big thanks!
March 5th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
people will be happy of that, as always good work !!!
March 5th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
This is nice, but I have one small complaint: I don’t see the different blog-specific dashboards on the wordpress.com main page. I can still go to blog-specific dashboards using the top menu bar, but this usually doesn’t work on my work computer….
March 5th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
I’ve got it now. I’m just thick.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
That IS VERY good manners! Well done, Matt, and thanks!
March 5th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
um, no pun intended…but it makes the write section hard to find.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Good idea! But why, when I look at the “Stats” link that says “this is your feed,” do I see the text “Global Dashboard”, etc.?
You’re probably aware of this already and are fixing it even now. You guys do a great job, and I’m grateful for the service!
March 5th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
looks really cool.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
really nice but now i don’t found own to edit my blog, i don’t found menu to write on it, i just could use the admin link on my blog, because here i have the new version, but i don’t see link to the edit mode… very disturbing..
March 5th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
So, where`s the “view site” feature gone to?
March 5th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Looks really nice
I just uploaded my new avatar through it 
March 5th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
so awesome. thanks for making my non wordpress friends feel just as at home here!
March 5th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
OK, I’m sure it’s a good idea. But no “view site” link is a disappointment.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
It confused me a bit when I went in as I have multiple blogs under one management - but nothing that can’t be handled.
Thanks.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Nice except that it reset all my statistics. :((
March 5th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
yeahh!
March 5th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
keep ‘m coming
March 5th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Great for non-bloggers
March 5th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Nice feature in any case
March 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Confusing.
I think I preferred my “own” Dashboard.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Great! I’ve got multiple blogs and one Global … Thing is very handy for that too
March 5th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Cool!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
100,000?? why not simply get a damn blog!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Very good!
March 5th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
March 5th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Awetastic! Thanks!
March 5th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Go Team!
Haha
March 5th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
cool! I came here to start a blog, so I didn’t realize that those without a blog were getting a differant deal… I’m glad to know that now all wordpressers get what we get, blog or no blog
P.$. You’re right, I didn’t notice the change! LOL!
~~EK
March 5th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Cool, just like WP to be thinking of everybody. :]
March 5th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Oh. I’m disappointed. When I found the headline on this thread, I thought that the spelling control now would allow people to choose language. My blog is not in English.
Well, well. Not my lucky day.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Virtual Hi Five, Thanks.
I love WordPress.com!!!
March 5th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Thanks wordpress!
March 5th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
well i got confused this morning.
and i suppose that explains it.
oh good…
=)
March 5th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
That’s nice
Thank you (:
March 5th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Thanks as always!
March 6th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Stupid question, but what use is an account that has no blog?
March 6th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Matt - I am really grateful for the enormous platform you give me through wordpress. The readers of my newspaper columns are able to get back columns so very much easier now — and I do most appreciate it….. You show the web’s world-wideness so well….. I live in USA and my audience is largely in Southern Africa….. Rod Smith
March 6th, 2007 at 1:13 am
I like this!!!!
March 6th, 2007 at 3:00 am
something different
March 6th, 2007 at 3:03 am
Nice hat
March 6th, 2007 at 4:50 am
That’s it guys…find a way to share the love…
March 6th, 2007 at 5:50 am
I noticed they changed it back to the way it used to be. Now, you get to the Global Dashboard by going to My Account –> Global Dashboard in the blue header bar. IMO, this is a much better design.
elpolaco, if you’re still not seeing how they changed it back to the way it used to be, go to the blue header bar and click on “My Dashboard.” That will get you all of your tabs.
March 6th, 2007 at 6:44 am
thanks
March 6th, 2007 at 8:33 am
[...] more about it here and click to start your own global [...]
March 6th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
[...] WordPress.com now accommodates people who don’t have blogs What’s new? Before, people who didn’t have a blog but just an account didn’t have any sort of dashboard so they couldn’t edit their password, get their API key, upload an avatar, track their comments, or any of the other fun stuff you can do under your dashboard. [...]
March 7th, 2007 at 1:54 am
ehmmm…..
March 7th, 2007 at 6:58 am
[...] far si che questo post non sia del tutto inutile segnalo - sempre a proposito di questa piattaforma gratuita di blogging - la creazione di una dashboard [...]
March 7th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
No offense, but I think it was better without the Global Dashboard!
March 7th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Neato!
March 8th, 2007 at 1:58 am
[...] see this WordPress post for an explanation of a change that some members of the class might have noticed recently (i.e., [...]
March 8th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Matt, one suggestion:
When I’m logged in to the GLOBAL dashboard, I can jump easily to the dashboard of a blog by hovering with the mouse over the GLOBAL DASHBOARD button.
But when I’m logged in to a dashboard of a blog I can’t jump directly to the global dashboard, because this hovering function of the DASHBOARD button doesn’t work there.
Would be nice, if this would be consistent.
March 8th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
sweeeet
March 8th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
[...] the WordPress.com blog: You now have a global dashboard at dashboard.wordpress.com that contains everything you’re used [...]
March 12th, 2007 at 6:09 am
This is great, and I am going to put it to the use.
March 12th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
cool…tnxxxx
March 13th, 2007 at 5:08 am
Thanks a milliard!
March 13th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
coo
March 13th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Let me onto this thing!
March 14th, 2007 at 2:57 am
haarrr…great…haarrr…
March 14th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Wow…….. keep growing! Saluuut. Terimakasih!
March 14th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Now that there is a global dashboard, and a blog switcher, wouldn’t it make sense to seperate the stuff in the dashboards, where it shows new posts and such, so that it shows all new posts only in your global dashboard? And then only the new posts for the one blog when you are in it’s dashboard?
Great features, by the way.
March 16th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
[...] http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/03/05/global-dashboard/ [...]
March 16th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Great idea
Cheers
March 17th, 2007 at 7:29 am
this is a the best feature i like in using wordpress. i hope we can also have list of history of wp users who visited our blog, just like the feature of mybloglog. ^^
March 18th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Thanks…its cool tool
March 18th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
nice!
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:25 am
Beautiful templates, easy editing and posting and now, another fantastic option with your dashboard. Thanks.
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I like it! Svidja mi se totalno!
April 11th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
[...] Global Dashboard [...]
April 13th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
NICE!