We’ve upgraded to wpmu 1.2.1. Been awhile since any upgrades, updates or changes have been made. Sorry about that. Between parenting and my day job I haven’t had much free time. That hopefully will be changing shortly.

No promises yet, but the big redesign is still in progress as well as a few new features and a contest with cool shwag to win (did someone say bestbuy gift cards and free netflix subscriptions? Tshirts?) more on that later.

For now, enjoy the fabulous upgraded blogs and let us know what you’d like to see added!

Sorry for the lack of updates lately but we’ve been doing a lot of behind the scenes work as well as figuring out with our soon to be announced partners what free schwag we can give you. More on that later. In the meantime we’ve added a new widget into the mix. You can now use your xbox live gamertag on here.

Really easy to setup as well. Anyhow check it out in the presentation tab or go here to see it in action: corourke.dreamflicks.com 

We’ll be moving the servers in the middle of next week. Yay to more space and a faster database server.

While we’re doing that we’ll also be doing some backend upgrades and bringing everything up to date a bit more. There may or not be a few surprises in there as well (10-15 new themes maybe??)

Some of you may have noticed that there are quite a few new widgets to choose from for your sidebar. We snuck those in yesterday and have a few more on the way as well. Like we said before Christmas a lot is happening in the new year.

Happy New Years from all of us at Dreamflicks.

May your wishes come true, your wealth increase and all your resolutions be as easy as pie (who the hell decided that pie was “easy”???)

Happy holidays to you and your family from the Dreamhost team!

First off sorry for no new themes this week. Our Chief theme conversion guy (that’d be the main man here Chris) isn’t doing any work other than changing the occasional diaper and holding his son for awhile.

If you’re curious what the brand new member of the Dreamflicks team looks like you can go here:

http://corourke.dreamflicks.com and see pics of Alexandr Phelan O’Rourke (his job right now is chief noisemaker and diaper soiler).

For the rest of the year the whole staff is going to take some time and enjoy the holidays with friends and family. In the new year expect some MASSIVE changes (yeah I went there with all caps, didn’t think I’d do it did ya?)

Catch ya in 2007!

We’re now able to embed AtomFilms.com videos directly into the post with the same ease of use as all other video sites we support (google video, youtube, ifilm, etc). While not many of you had requested the ability we strive to get you the options you want.

Have fun and check out user krougeau’s blog for some great videos: krougeau.dreamflicks.com

Thanks to Zeug over at An-Archos.com for fixing this so quickly.

Looking for help on getting the most out of your blog with us?

Head over to the Help Blog and search to your heart’s content.

help.dreamflicks.com

Tons of useful information and some pickles. Who knew information could be so fun?

What a great way to end a weekend. Introducing Polls. If you hop into your plugins directory you’ll notice something new.

Polls.

Yep you can now activate those two plugins  (wp-polls and wp-polls widget) to give your blog that oh so sassy feature of polls. Wanna know what your friends think? Poll ‘em.

Not a groundbreaking feature addition but it’s one that is  doubtless to be popular and was requested by a user. So you see, telling us what you want does help you make Dreamflicks a happier more satisfying place.

Speaking of polls and requests, on the right you’ll notice a poll asking you what you want to see us do next. Well don’t just stand there let us know what it is you want to see next on Dreamflicks.com

Just in time for the weekend we’re offering up the ability to crosspost to your livejournal. With the new plugin (check the plugins area in your dashboard) you can easily crosspost everything to your existing livejournal.

Once you’ve activated the plugin just head over to the options page, enter in your account info and then submit. You have two options you can choose: update all your existing posts or just posts from here on out. This means if you use the livejournal importer to move all of your old posts over to dreamflicks you can keep adding to your lj after the move.

A few neat facts about the plugin:

1. It will add a little box that says “Originally published at [your blog name].”
2. You can have it tell people to comment on your posts here rather then at lj.
3. If you decide to change the post, the plugin will automatically update the repost on your livejournal

All in all a pretty handy tool to help you smoothly transition your journaling over to your new home at dreamflicks.com

Also currently undergoing limited testing (with a release time hopefully before the end of the year) is a friends list tool to help you keep track of your friends here on dreamflicks.

Any other requests?