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John O’Nolan, a member of theWordPressCore UI team, todayreleased a pluginfor testing his experimental WordPress backend interface changes on willing users. The plugin allows O’Nolan to get feedback on interface changes that are too radical to be included in the next release of the popular CMS. “If everything always fitted the current UI then nothing would ever change,” said O’Nolan on the plugin’s announcement post. “If they fit exactly into the current WordPress UI then this would just be a patch on a core ticket and not a plugin....

Earlier this week, WordPress.comaddeda follow button to all hosted blogs. And today, itannouncedusers of the hosted blogging service can now upgrade and customize their domain name with a .me extension, adding to its existing repertoire of top-level domains which includes .com, .org and .net. WordPress.com offersdomain mappingservices for its hosted blogs costing a couple of dollars per month, which means users don’t get involved in any of the configuration process....

Users of the free ‘hosted’ WordPress.com service may have noticed some changes to their website today. The blogging service has added a small button to the bottom of each blog which is designed to help increase page views. Theannouncementwas made on the official WordPress.com blog earlier today by Scott Berkun, saying: “After weeks of experimentation with different designs, locations and names, we’ve determined the addition of a small, cute, little button at the bottom of your blog will dramatically help pageviews and retention”....

A note on theWordPress.com blogfromMatt Mullenwegdetails some hard facts today. It seems that Automattic had a “low-level” break-in to several of its servers. Mullenweg goes on to state that anything on those servers could have been revealed: We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to determine the extent of the information exposed, and re-securing avenues used to gain access. We presume our source code was exposed and copied....

Automattic‘sWordPress.com, the commercially run leg of the popular blogging platform is growing incredibly fast, according to its latest statistics. Automattic tells us that it has seen over 6 million new blogs sign up in the past year and that total pageviews for the year stood at 23 billion, up an impressive 53% from 2009. Media uploads also doubled to 94.5 terabytes of new photos and videos, while new posts were up 110% to 146 million....