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Weekend Reads: WPLongform Picks
For people who love language and the strange, wonderful things it can do, few things are more pleasurable than diving into a well-crafted piece of writing. Since the introduction of the WPLongform tag...
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Stats Wrangling II: Days, Weeks, and Months
If you’re like us — and I think you are — you can’t help but check your blog’s stats a few times each day to see how many someones have caught your latest composition, be it a post, poem, video,...
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Display Your Vine Videos on WordPress.com
You know all those Vine masterpieces you’ve recorded with your mobile phone — six seconds of time, looping over and over, immortalized on your little screen? Now, you can embed these videos on your...
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Domains 101: Mapping It Out
A few weeks ago, we whetted your palate with Domains 101: An Introduction to Custom Domains, an introductory post about custom domains. This week, we’re going to delve deeper into the details of domain...
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New Themes: Inspiration Laboratory, Nexus, and Fiore
Happy Threeme Thursday! Today, we have three exciting new themes to offer you. Two premium themes, Inspiration Laboratory and Nexus, are perfect for showcasing your creativity, while a new free theme,...
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The 2013 WordPress.com Survey: We Welcome Your Feedback!
WordPress.com users, designers, and developers: we want your feedback! Here at WordPress.com, we enjoy working each day to bring you new features and improvements to make your sites and online...
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Get the Most Out of Widgets: Building and Showcasing Your Community
Last month, we highlighted some widgets and hope you’ve since activated them! Today, let’s continue our widgets tour and focus on several that put the spotlight on the readership you’ve built. Your...
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WordPress.com Users Can Now Register .CO Domain Names
We’re excited to announce the addition of .CO as a new top-level domain on WordPress.com. If you’re interested in buying a custom domain name for a new or existing site, you can now choose and register...
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Be Part of the Official Annual WordPress Conference from Anywhere in the World!
WordCamp San Francisco is three days away. Think you’re out of luck because you’re nowhere near California, or didn’t buy a ticket before they sold out? Think again! Join the live stream, and attend...
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Five Minutes with Dave Martin
Every once in a while, we get to sit down with an Automattician to help you get to know the people who work behind the scenes here. These are the people who build new features, keep Automattic running,...
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New Theme: Magnate Express
Magnate Express: Narrow View What better way to celebrate the excitement of WordCamp San Francisco this week than with a premium theme launch! Our latest, from WooThemes, is called Magnate Express, a...
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Blogger Profile: Ex-Expat Author Jack Scott
For insight on expat life mixed with a generous dose of British wit, few bloggers can match Jack Scott, the author whose blog, Perking the Pansies, led to a publishing contract and a busy writing...
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Publish, Promote, Repeat: Dashboard Tools to Share Your Stuff with the World
You’ve worked hard all day drafting a post, then click Publish to send it out into the world. Then, you crash for the night. You’ve earned it, right? You wake up in the morning, excited to look in...
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One Theme, Three Ways: Customizing iTheme2
iTheme2 was originally conceived as a tech blog theme, paying homage to the sleek design of Apple websites. The three blogs we showcase here are proof of its remarkable versatility: not one of them...
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You Are Now Less Dumb: Blogger David McRaney on Scoring the Second Book Deal
David McRaney’s Blog, You Are Not So Smart, led to a book of the same name, published in October 2011 — a book that became a bestseller in 13 languages (we profiled him here when the book was first...
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New Themes: Publisher and Zoren
What better way to kick off August than with two new themes? Today we have both a premium theme and a free theme for your viewing pleasure, Publisher and Zoren. Publisher is the first premium theme on...
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Digging In the Dashboard: Three Features to Discover
Features abound in the WordPress.com dashboard. When you first got started at WordPress.com, you likely identified a handful of tools that you used every time you posted and then ignored the rest. But...
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WordPress.com by the Numbers: The July 2013 Hot List
When you hit “Publish” and send your work out into the world, do you stop to think about the larger ecosystem in which your blog is embedded? After all, one of the things that makes a blog a blog and...
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Share Readmill Highlights to Your WordPress Site
At WordPress.com, we love to read. We’re delighted to announce that our partner Readmill has implemented sharing to WordPress in the latest version of their iOS app, already available in the App Store....
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New Theme: Isca
Hello there! Another Thursday has arrived and all the themers down in Themeville are excited to present the latest addition to the wonderful world of themes here on WordPress.com. Isca is the third...
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