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Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
We were floored this week by the posts we came across on WordPress.com. This community is full of different voices: bold, opinionated, and honest. You take risks and put yourselves out there. You offer...
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Five minutes with Tim Moore
Welcome to a new feature on WordPress.com News. Every couple weeks, we’ll sit down with an Automattician to help you get to know the people who work behind the scenes to build new features, keep...
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Personalize Your Site with Custom Fonts
Last month, we shared tips from WordPress.com users who use Custom Colors to spice up their sites. You can also personalize your online home with Custom Fonts, which is another feature of the Custom...
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A Look at Wedding Sites on WordPress.com
We’ve launched themes especially for people planning and documenting their weddings, like the elegant themes Forever and Ever After, and the charming, playful Lovebirds and Blissful Blog themes. Here,...
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New Themes: My Life and Silesia
Today, I’m excited to announce the two latest additions to our ever-growing collection of free themes. My Life My Life is a cool, serene blogging theme by Justin Tadlock. With subtle colors, readable...
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Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
Within Automattic’s Editorial team, we feel pretty lucky — we get to spend a fair amount of time each week reading your posts, in a constant bid to find strong, original writing and photography and...
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Customizing Oxygen: BeatRoute Magazine
Earlier this month, during Responsive Theme week, Cheri highlighted BeatRoute, a Canadian alt-monthly focusing on local music. We (and you) were impressed by how BeatRoute made the free Oxygen theme...
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Upgrade Focus: VideoPress For Weddings
WordPress.com is all about making your special day something to remember, and you’ll now find that there are a number of beautiful themes for sharing your wedding with friends, family or the world at...
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Restaurants Whet Your Appetite on WordPress.com
Last year we launched wordpress.com/restaurants, giving restaurants the ability to quickly and easily build a site with menus, maps and directions, an OpenTable reservations widget, and more, along...
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Education Continues Outside the Classroom on WordPress.com
Last month, we attended the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Boston, Massachusetts, and had a great time talking to educators about how WordPress.com encourages in-class conversations...
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Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
This week’s Freshly Pressed posts continued to impress us with the range, depth, and honesty of the material being put out into the world by WordPress.com bloggers. As a community, you’re bold, not...
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Five minutes with Kathryn Presner
Every couple weeks, we’re sitting down with an Automattician to help you get to know the people who work behind the scenes to build new features, keep Automattic running, and make WordPress.com the...
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A Look at Painters with Portfolios
Recently, Michelle announced the launch of WordPress.com/portfolios. If you take photographs, record music and video, illustrate and paint, or design things, you can build a portfolio here on...
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Get Notifications On the Go With WordPress for iOS
Did you know you can get notifications about new comments, new followers, likes on your posts, and more with the WordPress for iOS app? It’s a super convenient way to keep up with your blog even when...
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Transform Your Site with a Custom Background
Recently, I highlighted blogs and websites displaying custom colors and custom fonts, which you can enable on your own site with a Custom Design upgrade. Today, let’s look at a free way to easily...
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Customizing Bueno: Mi Piace Kate
We all want our blogs and sites to feel like “us,” and there are tons of tweaks that can turn a plain ol’ theme into a bespoke web experience for the discriminating blog connoisseur. Last month, we...
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New Theme: Further
Today, we’re very proud to present a new premium theme that offers all of the features you’d typically find in a magazine theme, while taking it one step Further Further: with featured content,...
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Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
As usual, we were impressed by the fresh perspectives, different voices, and mix of topics in the WordPress.com Reader this week. Looking for something to read? Here are a few suggestions: And Now For...
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Meet a Forum Volunteer: Mike Brough
If you’ve ever had a question about WordPress.com, chances are you’ve visited our Community Support Forums. Forums are a great place to search for solutions and get answers. While our Happiness...
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Need a new online home? It’s easy to import into WordPress.com.
We think it’s important that you own the content you create online, which is why we make it simple to import or export all your data — you wrote it it, it’s yours, and you can take it where you’d like....
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