Freshly Pressed

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  tmoroney1 · Member · Dec 4, 2009 at 3:19 am

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  I just have a quick question. How exactly do some of those blogs get on the “Freshly Pressed” page? Is it based on the popularity of the blog and if it gets popular enough it gets posted up there? Or do some WordPress moderators read these and they post up what they like? I’m just a little curious.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 4, 2009 at 3:31 am

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  I have some quick questions for you.
  What are you talking about?
  Why didn’t you post a link do we know what you are talking about?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 4, 2009 at 3:35 am

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  I went on the net and did a Google search for “Freshly Pressed”.
  It’s a web hosting company and here’s the contact link for you to use so you can put your questions to them http://www.freshlypressed.net/contact/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 4, 2009 at 4:28 am

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  Are you talking about the “freshly pressed” tab on the main wordpress.COM page? If so, staff will not say since if they told you how it was decided, then everyone would be trying to game the system so their posts showed up there.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 4, 2009 at 4:31 am

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  @TSP and tmoroney1
  Good grief. I didn’t know such a feature existed.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 4, 2009 at 4:34 am

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  I found “it” whatever “it” is and I apologize for my earlier confusion. Sorry :( but I never go to that page.

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  bats0711 · Member · Dec 4, 2009 at 1:10 pm

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  I don’t call it the freshly pressed pafe, I call it the front page of WP.COM . I think you’ve had some long days trying to help out here TT ;)
  I can tell you it doesn’t have to do with popularity because recently I was on there. YAY! and my blog isn’t all that popular. I think they draw our names from hats.

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  bats0711 · Member · Dec 4, 2009 at 1:11 pm

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  oh page not pafe.

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  randomgeek1 · Member · Dec 4, 2009 at 6:50 pm

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  Hmm, I wonder what the system they use for picking the freshly pressed blogs is. You probably need a well-written post and a really good picture that they can use when they add your post to “Freshly Pressed”, but beyond that they probably have some other criteria we don’t know about.

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  tmoroney1 · Member · Dec 5, 2009 at 1:51 am

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  Well, I guess, like in those Tootsie Pop comercials, “The World May Never Know”. Haha. Thanks for all your posts.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 5, 2009 at 1:58 am

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  TSP hit the nail on the head. There’s really nothing more to discuss because if the selection factors were revealed then there would be those who would “game the system”.