November 2011
2 posts
New Mobile Theme: Minileven →
There’s a good chance that visitors to your site these days will be using a smartphone. We feel it’s important to provide them with a great reading experience while on the small screen, so today…
New Theme: Strange Little Town →
Introduce a hint of wonderment into your blog with our latest free theme!
This is your invitation to take an enchanting voyage to a Strange Little Town. Our latest release is designed to transport…
October 2011
1 post
New Themes: iTheme 2 and Bold News →
If you are doing a great job on your blog and posting regularly, sometimes important posts fade away from the home page. Sound familiar? Today, we’re excited about introducing two new themes that…
January 2011
1 post
Theme Updates for Custom Menus and More →
Last year we—the Theme Team—were quite busy, not only offering you 29 great new themes, but also improving the themes you already love and use on your WordPress.com sites. In case you haven’t…
December 2010
3 posts
WordPress for Windows Phone 7 →
Sometimes things just work out. When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7, a complete remake of the Windows Phone platform, we all got very excited. The simplicity of the platform is unheard…
Better Tagging with P2 →
When we originally released P2 our mission was to create an awesome feature-packed group blog theme. We have stayed true to that mission with new improvements to P2 functionality that will make…
Make it Snow Around the World →
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to…
November 2010
6 posts
Windows Live Spaces Doubles WordPress.com Signups →
Two months ago, we announced together with our friends at Windows Live that bloggers on the Windows Live Spaces service were being offered the opportunity to move their existing blogs over here…
Discover who likes your posts →
Months ago we added the ability for readers to like your posts, and ever since thousands of people have been liking posts every day. But something was missing: there was no way for post authors to…
Who is Top Author? →
Picture this situation: you’re an author on a popular blog that’s published by several users; you’re wondering which author is getting the most views… Well now you can find out.
Today we’re…
New Theme: Pilcrow →
If you want a simple and clean blog theme that you can customize to suit your needs I think you’ll like the one we’re introducing today. It’s called Pilcrow.
The Pilcrow Themes…
Mobilize Your Blog This Holiday Season →
With the holidays appearing thick and fast from now until next year, it’s a great time for meeting up with the people who are important to us, giving and receiving gifts, relaxing and indulging…
New Features: Linking, Sorting, Paging →
Oh my!
It’s that time of year again, when the folks over at WordPress.org start putting the finishing touches on the next version of WordPress (in this case, version 3.1), and the lucky users of…
July 2010
2 posts
Phone Your Blog →
A broken telephone I saw while wandering around Bangkok
It’s happened to all of us. The night starts off innocently enough with a little gin and tonic, maybe a mojito, then next thing…
Support the First Amendment with 1 for All →
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people…
June 2010
4 posts
Overcome Writer’s Block With Plinky Prompts →
Do you ever think “Ugh, I’d totally write a new blog post, if I just had something to say?” Or maybe, “I’m sick and tired of writer’s block but I don’t know what to do about it!”
We’ve all been…
New Theme: Greyzed →
Today’s new theme is dirty and grungy-looking—but that’s just what makes it so good! Let’s take a look at Greyzed.
The Greyzed Theme
While Greyzed might look rough it’s been…
Your Public Profile →
Back in March when we announced Gravatar-powered profiles on WordPress.com, your profile page remained private so that only you could access it. Now that you’ve had a chance to update your…
We All Like to Reblog →
Have you ever come across a blog post that you enjoyed so much you wanted to easily share it with the readers of your own blog? Sure, you can copy and paste the link and perhaps even a snippet of…
May 2010
11 posts
New Custom Menus Feature (and a few others) →
Have you been hearing a bunch of hubbub around the web lately about the upcoming release of WordPress version 3.0? I know I have, and it’s always fun to hear what people are saying when we get close…
An Awesome WordPress.com Success Story →
When Neil Pasricha started his WordPress.com blog, 1,000 Awesome Things, he decided to highlight one awesome thing each weekday to help him keep a positive outlook.
That was three years ago,…
Making Redirects Permanent →
On WordPress.com, you start with a standard WordPress.com domain name for your blog which looks something like this – example.wordpress.com. You then have the option of upgrading to a custom…
New Theme: Paperpunch →
Today we are pleased to introduce Paperpunch, a clean and versatile theme featuring a subtle, textured background and hand-crafted icons.
To go along with a widget-ready sidebar,…
Contact Form Update →
Do you use a contact form on your site? If so, you’ll enjoy today’s update. Our [contact-form] shortcode has always been boring. It never had any configuration options and didn’t work in widgets….
New Theme: Notepad →
Today’s new theme is Notepad. A richly styled and beautiful, personal theme inspired by iPhone’s Notes application.
The Notepad Theme
With Notepad you have the option of displaying…
New Space Upgrades →
Is your Media Library feeling crowded? I’m betting our new space upgrade levels might help.
Based on feedback we received from our users, we decided to add two new space upgrade options: 50GB and…
Congratulations to Our ‘Bloggers Who Really Count’ →
We were thrilled to see several WordPress.com blogs — Eat Like a Girl, James Ramsden, Inspector Gadget, and Stilletoed Socialist — make the list of The Times article “40 bloggers who…
New Theme: Enterprise →
Meet our newest super-clean theme, Enterprise—perfect for bloggers wanting a more corporate look for their blog.
The Enterprise Theme
One of my favorite Enterprise features is the…
New Theme: Bueno →
Bueno is a stylish and fun theme featuring a custom header, custom background, and multiple fresh color schemes.
Click to view slideshow.
Bueno’s rainbow of alternate color schemes, default…
New Theme: Vostok →
Vostok is an elegant one-column theme sporting a dark background and light text that is readable and easy on the eyes. The minimal layout is perfect for publishing your personal lifestream in a…
April 2010
1 post
DNS Editing Deployed →
A few years ago, when we began to offer domain mapping—serving a WordPress.com blog on your domain, like example.com—we omitted DNS control because we didn’t count on many people needing it. Soon…
Share Photos with a Slideshow →
Media is a big part of my life. Showing friends a slideshow of a weekend excursion is a common occurrence. When blogging these photos, displaying them in a long gallery doesn’t always make…
March 2010
8 posts
Gravatar-Powered Profiles →
We’ve always sort-of had profiles here on WordPress.com — you probably remember giving your name and such when you first signed up for WordPress.com — but they’ve always been a little lame. You’d…
New Theme: Neutra →
Today, we’re bringing you another new theme. Neutra is a simple and elegant theme. Dabs of color accent this typographically focused theme built upon a solid grid-based design.
Neutra
The design is extremely inviting. Colors accent the white and gray design, helping showcase your content without distraction. The headers are quite warm and inspiring.
Ada Lovelace Day →
March 24 was Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Over on the Publisher Blog we highlighted two women in the…
New Theme: Dark Wood →
Go against the grain with “Dark Wood,” an eye-catching and playful theme. Bright colors and whimsical icons fuse with dark tones to provide a pleasing and harmonious design. Dark Wood is a three…
Set Your Blog’s Timezone by City →
One of my favorite things about working on WordPress.com is that improvements get made and pushed out as soon as they’re tested and ready. Just a day after I wrote about manually changing your…
Time to Spring Forward →
Ah, spring, when a young person’s fancy turns to … blogging. And time changes. (Maybe baseball too, if that’s your thing.)
WordPress.com blog time settings follow the UTC time standard. This…
OMG WordPress BBQ at SxSW →
This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and fans (including many hosted here on WordPress.com) are among the people attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive conference in…
January 2010
4 posts
My Tips on WordPress.com →
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, that’s creativity.
– Charles Mingus
From the time we started WordPress.com in 2005, we’ve focused on making it…
WordPress.com: Now on HootSuite →
Last month we introduced new ways to post and keep up to date with WordPress.com blogs through the Twitter API. One of the coolest parts about this is you can make use of a growing number of…
Two New Stats Things →
Did you ever look at your stats chart and wonder which posts were published on a particular day? Now it’s easy to find out. Just move your mouse around the chart. (This only works for…
Upcoming WordCamps →
We’ve said it before, and we’ll probably say it again: attending a WordCamp is one of the most enjoyable ways to meet other WordPress users and learn new tricks that you can use on your site….
December 2009
7 posts
New Theme: Duotone →
Happy Holidays! To spice up the coming weekend I’m here to present you with Duotone. Duotone is the successor to our highly popular photo blogging theme, Monotone. Duotone is very similar, but…
WordPress Holiday Desktop Wallpapers →
This year, we teamed up with San Francisco artist Coley Wopperer to spread some WordPress-themed holiday cheer. We thought it turned out so well, we wanted to share it with everyone as a…
Email Geolocation →
If you haven’t already tried our post by email feature then it makes blog publishing as simple as sending an email. Configure your blog, write an email, and we’ll do the rest. You can…
Support Holiday Hours →
Happy holidays from the WordPress.com Happiness Team! We’re working hard getting ready for the holidays and sheltering from the snow.
We will be closing support for one week in order to spend…
November Wrap-Up →
Before we get to the stats, I should mention that at the top of my thankful-for list this Thanksgiving was our growing group of Automatticians. These are the folks who bring you the awesome…
A Little Snow for the Holidays →
I’ve seen my fair share of snow growing up in northern Michigan. The sun was shining today, but there is a good chance we’ll have snow on the ground by the end of the week. My favorite…
Better Source Code Posting →
For the coders among you, you may already know that posting source code is really easy here on WordPress.com thanks to the sourcecode shortcode. You just wrap your code in [sourcecode] and…