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New for Publicize: Share Your Path Moments
Our Publicize feature, which we recently highlighted, is a quick, simple way to build your readership and share your latest content automatically on other social networks, including Facebook, Twitter,...
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Introducing WordPress.com Connect
Today, we’re announcing a new feature for developers called WordPress.com Connect, a secure and easy way for millions of WordPress.com users to log in to your website or app. For WordPress.com users...
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Create Presentations Easily on WordPress.com with Shortcodes
On WordPress.com, you can use a number of shortcodes to embed features and create objects with little effort, and make your site look just the way you want. We’re excited to announce new shortcodes you...
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New Theme: Fontfolio
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m excited to share our latest free theme, Fontfolio. Fontfolio is a clean, grid-style portfolio theme originally designed by Marios Lublinski. It includes bold...
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Stats Wrangling III: Top Posts and Pages
We did the 36,000-foot, airplane-over-the-Grand-Canyon view of your stats page, and last month, we walked up to the lip of the Canyon and peered down at the days, weeks, and months views. Today — if I...
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One Theme, Three Ways: Customizing Coraline
There are more than 200 themes to choose from in the Theme Showcase: themes with sleek magazine-style front pages (like Oxygen and Watson), static business and profile sites (like Forefront and...
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Get the Most Out of Widgets: All Kinds of Images
Images are one of the simplest ways to inject personality into your blog. No matter what theme you’re using, you can add life with images — insert them into posts and pages, use them for headers and...
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Domains 101: Exploring the Domain Name System
In the past few weeks, we’ve gone over the basics of domain ownership in “Introduction to Custom Domains” and covered the details of domain registration versus website hosting in “Mapping It Out.” In...
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New Themes: Organization and Expound
It’s Theme Thursday here at WordPress.com, and we’ve got double vision: Organization and Expound! Organization, developed by our partner Organic Themes, is a sharp, professional-looking theme intended...
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Writing a World of Whimsy: Young Adult Author Claire Legrand
Periodically, we share stories of WordPress.com users doing awesome things, from blogger David McRaney snagging his second book deal to memoirist Susan Morrison bringing her mother’s World War II-era...
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Make the Most of Your Mobile Site
You’ve spent time making sure your blog looks exactly the way you want — it’s got personality and complements your content. But what about the people who read your blog on a phone or tablet? Have you...
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Embed Tweets and YouTube Videos with the Media Explorer
It’s easier than ever to add another dimension to your posts with embedded videos or tweets: announcing the Media Explorer, a new media curation tool that lets you add trending content from Twitter and...
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New Theme: Personal
Today I’m thrilled to announce that another beautiful theme which offers a more personal touch has been added to our ever-expanding showcase of premium upgrades. Personal is a customizable,...
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From Proofs to Prime Numbers: Math Blogs on WordPress.com
WordPress.com supports LaTeX, a document markup language for the TeX typesetting system, which is used widely in academia as a way to format mathematical formulas and equations. LaTeX makes it easier...
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Create an email address with your custom domain using Email Forwarding
A unique and memorable custom domain is a great way to make your blog stand out. WordPress.com makes it easy to add a custom domain to your site: just go to Store → Domains in your dashboard, and enter...
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Chrome Extension for WordPress.com: Notifications Improved!
Do you use Google Chrome as your web browser? We’ve got a pretty nifty Chrome Extension for WordPress.com that allows you to post to your site with a click of a button, and follow other blogs without...
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Back to School: A Blogging How-To
With Labor Day a distant memory (two days ago, already?), the school year is already in full swing. Whether you’ve been blogging regularly through the heat of summer, or slowed down your pace with some...
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New Theme: Highwind
It’s Theme Thursday! I’m excited to announce Highwind, created by the talented James Koster. Highwind was designed to showcase content and is especially suitable for writers, photographers and...
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WordPress.com News and Numbers: The August 2013 Hot List
Recently, Michelle offered a snapshot of WordPress.com activity in July. The verdict? You’re all busy bees and publish a lot. We’re proud of our community’s accomplishments this past month, too —...
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Your Blog, Plus One: Connect and Share on Google+
We’re excited to announce new features that integrate your WordPress.com site with some of the services Google has to offer. New features include: Connecting your site to your Google+ Profile....
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