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Customizing Twenty Fourteen (Take Two!)
Twenty Fourteen is this year’s default theme, and the first magazine-style default theme — something y’all were waiting for, judging by its skyrocketing popularity. We’ve already looked at how a few...
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Rev Up Your Writing with Our Blogging U. Challenge
Lots of us start blogs with the intention of writing regularly, but quickly find ourselves struggling to sit down at the keyboard. Cultivating a consistent writing habit isn’t as easy as starting a...
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Promote Your Books and Blog: A Look at Author Websites
The comments poured in on our last two posts highlighting new books by WordPress.com authors. We’re happy to host such a prolific literary bunch! For those of you interested in using a website to...
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Early Theme Adopters: Illustratr
If you’re looking for a theme to showcase your creative work — be it your words, images, or multimedia projects — Illustratr, launched last month, might be just what you’re looking for. It has a...
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Awesome Summer Distractions from WordPress.com
Summertime And the livin’ is easy —George Gershwin The hot months will soon arrive in the Northern Hemisphere and if you’re like us, you’re planning a little time off from your regular routine. We’ve...
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New Themes: Kelly and Arcade
This week we’re pleased to introduce you to two new themes: Kelly and Arcade! Kelly Kelly, a delightful new free theme, was created by Automattic designer Kelly Hoffman. About creating Kelly, she says,...
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Export Your GoDaddy Quick Blogcast Account to WordPress.com
GoDaddy’s Quick Blogcast service is being retired, and will shut down permanently on June 25th, 2014. Nobody likes to lose the content they’ve spent time creating, though. If you’re a Quick Blogcast...
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Early Theme Adopters: Espied
From a full-blown professional portfolio to a streamlined homepage, Espied, which was launched a few short weeks ago, gives you a wide variety of options to display your best work. You can tailor the...
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Reset the Net
A year ago today, we joined the world in shock on learning that governments were spying on internet users around the world. Tapping internet service providers’ undersea cables, intentionally and...
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New Theme: Bosco
We have a new free theme to announce today: Bosco! Bosco Amid a sea of sliders, sidebars, and huge header images, Bosco stands alone in its refined focus on content. Your story is presented in a...
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Introducing Longreads’ Best of WordPress
Today we’re excited to launch a new series with Longreads, the storytelling community that recently joined the Automattic and WordPress.com Editorial family. And we need your help. We’re looking for...
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WordPress for Android 2.9 Has Arrived
The WordPress for Android 2.9 release is now available in the Google Play Store. This release includes some exciting new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Blog Discovery Blog discovery is a new...
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Early Theme Adopters: Gridiculous Pro
No matter whether you use WordPress.com to host your blog or your business website, premium theme Gridiculous Pro is a cool, sophisticated, and versatile theme that showcases your creativity. Firefight...
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Veterans’ Blogs Offer a Glimpse into Life on the Front Lines
Last week was the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the start of the Allied landing in Normandy, France, that contributed to the end of World War II. While some marked it with (deserved) pomp and...
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Early Theme Adopters: Pictorico
Launched last month, Pictorico is a free theme that combines a dynamic portfolio-style home page with a simple, single-column layout for posts and pages. It’s great for pro photographers, casual...
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Around the World (Cup) in Eight Photos
Whether your country is playing in Brazil this year or not, joining in the fun of this monthlong global festivity is hard to resist. Thanks to bloggers and photographers on the ground in Brazil and...
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UX for Good: Can We Harness Emotions to End Genocide?
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do when not in front of a...
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Early Theme Adopters: Bushwick
Bushwick has become the theme of choice for tens of thousands of bloggers since we launched it a few months ago. It’s easy to see why: its typography and layout make posts highly readable, while the...
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Longreads’ Best of WordPress, Vol. 1
Here’s the first official edition of Longreads’ Best of WordPress! We’ve scoured 22% of the internet to create a reading list of great storytelling — from publishers you already know and love, to some...
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Themes for Longform Writers
Many of the themes in our Theme Showcase are great for writing and reading longer articles and stories, from our classic default themes — including Twenty Fourteen and Twenty Twelve — to popular...
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