New Features on WordPress.com

Contact Form

The most recent feature added to WordPress.com is inclusion of Contact Forms on your pages or posts. Only thing you need to do is to include a line as below at the appropriate location in your page/post.

[contact-form]

This will result in a contact form as below. Only a textarea box for comments and a submit button will be shown if you are already logged in to wordpress.com (as is with the comments on each page/post) otherwise additional input fields for Name, email and website would be shown. The comments posted on this form is sent to the author by email, and are not publicly shown as with other comments.

Name(required)

Email(required)

Website

Message

Submit

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You may like to intervene quoting the email feature for comments as available at Discussion submenu under Options menu on the dashboard.

That’s right! the said feature also allows you to get comments via email, but not everyone likes to be mailed each time even if your own post links to a previous post, at least not me! Using this new feature you can rest assured that you are mailed only when visitor actually wants to mail you.

View Random Post

Another feature recently added is redirection to random page. You just need to add ?random to a wordpress.com blog url as below and you would be redirected to a random page from that blog.

http://jalaj.net/?random

This feature is an outcome of a small plugin by Matt based on the suggestions from TechCrunch and WebWare. Thanks //engtech for pointing this out.