August 3, 2009 — The Archives widget displays a month-by-month list in the sidebar of your blog that your readers can use to navigate your content. Find out more on our dedicated WordPress.com support page.

August 3, 2009 — The Akismet widget shows a simple counter for the amount of spam caught by the free Akismet service. Find out more on the dedicated WordPress.com support page.

July 29, 2009 — Creating navigation which reflects the items you want in the order you want can seem a little tricky, but Scott Ellis demonstrates a simple solution that also provides great flexibility for adding future content without having to redo what you have done.

July 26, 2009 — This short introductory video introduces the concept behind and quick-start setup of Gravatar – a free service designed to make your life easier, by associating a free-floating avatar with one or more of your email addresses. Get your own Gravatar via your WordPress.com profile page, or Gravatar.com

July 24, 2009 — This short video introduces you to adding and managing widgets on your WordPress.com blog.

July 24, 2009 — In this short video for self-hosted WordPress blogs, we walk you through the process of adding Twitter updates to the sidebar of your widget-enabled theme, using the Wickett Twitter plugin

July 22, 2009 — This video walks you through a quick way to add your latest Twitter tweets to the sidebar of your blog, via the built in Twitter Widget. For self-hosted blogs, check out this video

July 22, 2009 — If you’d like to bring the content of your WordPress blog into your Facebook notes stream, this quick tutorial will show you how.

July 17, 2009 — The recent addition of the PollDaddy Ratings widget to WordPress.com blogs allows you to add star and thumbs-up, thumbs-down ratings to your blog posts, pages and comments. This video walks you through the basics. For more information check out this support page. A WordPress.org plugin version is in the works.

July 15, 2009 — Chris Pirillo’s presentation on web communities, recorded at WordCamp San Francisco 2009.

Video by Dave Curlee and John P. Post production by Dave Curlee.