September 9, 2009 — Automattic announces the arrival of a new feature to WordPress.com: contextual spell and grammar checking from After the Deadline.

August 5, 2009 — VideoPress brings you high definition, embeddable video to your WordPress.com blog and beyond. In this short tutorial we look at the process of getting it installed, and publishing a video with it. For an overview of the VideoPress feature-set, check out our introductory video or the dedicated WordPress.com support page. For information on getting set up with a self-installed version of WordPress, check out our tutorial on just that.

August 3, 2009 — The VodPod video widget for WordPress.com makes it easy to add a customized sidebar display of your latest collected videos in the sidebar of your blog. You can read more about the widget in this WordPress.com support article.

August 3, 2009 — The Top Rating widget works in tandem with the PollDaddy ratings system baked into your WordPress.com account – displaying your highest rated posts, comments, and/or pages in the sidebar of your blog. If you’d like to read more about the Top Ratings widget, check out the WordPress.com support page

August 3, 2009 — The Top Posts widget for WordPress.com displays a list of your most often visited posts in the sidebar of your blog. If you’d like to learn more about it, check out the WordPress.com support article.

August 3, 2009 — The Top Clicks widget displays the links people clicked on as they left your blog. If you’d like to learn more about it, check out the WordPress.com support article

August 3, 2009 — The Text widget lets you insert text or HTML code into the sidebar of your blog. Learn more about it at the WordPress.com support page, or check out W3Schools excellent HTML tutorials to get your started.

August 3, 2009 — The Tag Cloud widget gathers the tags applied to your blog posts in a cloud, with the text varying according to the amount of posts that have a particular tag applied. Learn more about it at the WordPress.com support entry.

August 3, 2009 — The search widget adds a search box to the sidebar of your blog.

August 3, 2009 — The SocialVibe widget is a great way to support your favorite causes. Learn more about it in our WordPress.com support page.