Life with an iPhone

New Mobile Theme: Minileven

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:08:39 -0600

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

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:21:44 -0600

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…

New Themes: iTheme 2 and Bold News

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:34:32 -0600

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…

Theme Updates for Custom Menus and More

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:56:54 -0700

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…

WordPress for Windows Phone 7

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:50:47 -0700

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

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:18:37 -0700

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

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:50:31 -0700

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…

Windows Live Spaces Doubles WordPress.com Signups

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:22:27 -0700

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

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:18:30 -0700

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?

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:03:29 -0700

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

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:07:19 -0700

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

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:42:22 -0700

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

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:42:22 -0700

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…

Phone Your Blog

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:08:38 -0600

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

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:31:14 -0600

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…

Overcome Writer’s Block With Plinky Prompts

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:40:21 -0600

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

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:56:50 -0600

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

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:50:45 -0600

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

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:34:07 -0600

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…

New Custom Menus Feature (and a few others)

Sat, 29 May 2010 18:41:14 -0600

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…