We are happy to announce another great round of features and new plugins! Yesterday we made the latest updates live, including the usual upgrades and bug fixes as well as some very cool new features. Make sure you read ( or skip ahead ) to the end for a huge, HUGE, HUUUUGE announcement! Did I say huge? Easy Redirections You can now add unlimited custom redirections to your site. You can create easy to share links to send people to Facebook or Twitter. You could create links to events or an Etsy store. As an example, check out our new link to Facebook: http://photographyblogsites.com/f Easy Shortcodes "Shortcodes" are used by all kinds of plugins to add things like contact forms and galleries to the content of pages. But it can get really complicated to remember how to use them, nevermind explaining it all in the first place. With our new Easy Shortcodes plugin, you can add stylized

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Over the last month, we have made a bunch of bug fixes, feature enhancements and even upgraded our servers! And today we are releasing a whole bunch of new toys that have been in the works for a while - from better social integrations, the ability to import from Posterous and Tumblr, to some simple things like more images in your home page slideshows! Optional Plugins! Activate and deactivate as you wish! Not everyone needs every feature. But we wanted to be able to allow everyone the features they needed. And now we can! Just look for the new "Add-ons" menu item in the dashboard... More on the way! Now that we can add plugins easier, we will be adding more often! If you have any suggestions, let us know! Better Social Integrations - Publish to Facebook and Twitter! Auto or manually publish to Facebook and Twitter! Every page, blog post and image gallery can be instantly shared to your

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Late last week we finished and released a major series of upgrades and new features. If you haven't noticed yet some things might look a little different around the admin area. Not only has the toolbar at the top been improved and consolidated, but it is also responsive and works even better on an iPad, including... reordering your galleries. Try it out. It's pretty cool. An Upgraded WordPress and TONS of New Features! The biggest thing we did was upgrade everyone to the very latest version of WordPress, which brought tons of new features, just by itself. All upload windows now have a drag-n-drop target that allow you to drag files in bulk right from your computer. The new and improved admin toolbar and the responsive admin also came along for the ride. But we added and fixed a lot too. Here is a look at some of the new toys... Drag and

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Introducing SnapShots, the easy way to "snap" a new design into place in seconds. We have just launched 21 new designs with yummy names like Apple Pie, Blueberry Cobbler, and Vanilla Panna Cotta. These are sure to flavor your BlogSite in style. Activate with one click, and a new theme, color and font choices, and backgrounds, all "snap" into place. One more click syncs all those styles to your SmugMug site, for an instant, cohesive, online presence. We're so excited about our SnapShot launch, we're giving $50 off your first year. Use the code SNAPSHOTS50.* Our video below explains how EASY and FUN Photography BlogSite "SnapShots" can be: *NEW Annual BlogSite subscribers only. Offer good through April 16th.

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WordPress has two built-in privacy settings that allow you to make sure your site is shown to or hidden from search engines. But wouldn't it be great to be able to hide your site while you work on it? Or maybe create a private, password protected site? We've just added four new levels or privacy and visibility that allow you to choose how your site is seen. You can now: Allow everyone, including search engines. Allow normal visitors but block search engines. Allow only logged in users of the entire PhotographyBlogSites network. Allow only users registered to your site. And even block everyone but admin level users of your site - that's just you! Or... Provide a password that protects the whole site! How to use it: Just visit "Settings->Privacy" and choose a level! What can you do with this? This sounds like a small new feature at first but allows you much more control over your site. Some ideas for how you

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