October 2011
3 posts
Baseball Fans: Show Your Pride This Postseason... →
Earlier this year we announced our partnership with Major League Baseball to bring their Fan, Modern, and Retro blog themes to WordPress.com.
Well, it’s playoff time, and we think there’s no…
3 Ways to Make Your Site More Visually Appealing →
You guys use WordPress.com in all sorts of creative ways, documenting the adventures you take…
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Retro Mac Theme →
It’s impossible to overstate the influence of Steve Jobs on technologists, particularly his passion for beautiful, usable products. We work harder and have higher standards because of the bar set by…
September 2011
4 posts
Coming to a WordCamp Near You →
Every now and then I like to remind people about upcoming WordCamps. WordCamps are locally-organized, casual conferences held all over the world that focus on WordPress. Bloggers, developers, and…
New Theme: Nishita →
Nishita is a simple, minimally-styled photoblogging theme—now available for WordPress.com blogs. With a choice of dark or light color scheme, the muted design puts all the focus on your photos. Not…
Two New Apps for WordPress.com →
Earlier this summer we launched a few tools to make it easier for developers to create new apps for WordPress.com. Starting today, you can integrate your WordPress.com blog with Feedfabrik and
New Theme: Comet →
Comet—the latest theme addition to our growing collection—sports a lightweight, faded design with simple and classy typographic touches. Perfect for any type of blog, it works really well for…
New Theme: Selecta →
Today we’ve got a treat for you — a new theme called Selecta. This might be the theme you’ve been waiting for if videos or images will be the primary focus of your blog. The design, originally…
August 2011
7 posts
New Theme: Skeptical →
Today we’re pleased to introduce the latest addition to our themes, Skeptical. Originally released by WooThemes for self-hosted WordPress.org blogs, Skeptical has seen great popularity as a blog…
Growth of WordPress →
Over on the WordPress.org blog, there’s an interesting story about the growth of WordPress, the software that powers WP.com here, and the ecosystem around it.
WP.com is different from every other…
Making your posts more beautiful →
Here at WordPress.com we care about making things look good. Automattic, Inc., our parent company, invests heavily in design: every engineering team has a full-time designer. We know making…
Now Publicize to Facebook Pages →
Since we launched Publicize for Facebook, which automatically shares a link to new posts to your Facebook account, one of the top requested features has been the ability to Publicize to Facebook…
New Theme: Next Saturday →
I’m pleased to announce our newest theme — Next Saturday. That is, the theme called “Next Saturday” launches today (not next weekend). With its rich, bright colors, three-dimensional blocks, and…
New Theme: Chapters →
If you’ve wanted to promote a book, this unique design is a perfect match. It’s called Chapters and it’s the latest in a series of terrific themes from WooThemes.
The Chapters Theme
Chapters, designed by über-designer, Tim Van Damme, was originally used to to promote the book “Rockstar Business.” The unique design of this great theme makes reading a blog post feel like you are reading a chapter...
July 2011
3 posts
New Theme: Blogum →
Today we are introducing a clean and minimalist theme, Blogum.
The Blogum Theme
Designed by WPShower, Blogum has a grid-based layout and is designed in a modern style. This…
New Theme: React →
Today, we’re happy to launch React, a simple and elegant theme designed especially for business websites. In fact, React is for anyone who would like a clean design to showcase their work and…
WordPress for webOS: A New Way to Blog →
It’s a new way to blog, on a new type of platform. Today we’re excited to share a glimpse of the future for all the WordPress mobile apps. Drumroll please! I give you WordPress for webOS, available as a download for the HP TouchPad with support for more webOS 3.0 devices coming in the future.
June 2011
1 post
3 New Ways to Attract More Twitter Followers from... →
We love to create new features on WordPress.com, but we also like to make it easier for you to connect your site with other popular services. We’ve teamed up with the folks at Twitter several…
May 2011
4 posts
What makes a good UX designer? →
Now More Than Ever: Just Write →
Writers are as different as the stories they produce, and their ideal writing environments vary no less. One thing most writers agree on, though, is that one of the toughest challenges is overcoming…
Batters Up: Major League Baseball Now on... →
Attention baseball fans, today we’re launching a triple-header of new themes just for you.
We’ve partnered with MLB.com to bring its Fan, Modern, and Retro blog themes to WordPress.com….
New Theme: Vertigo →
Today we are excited to introduce a new, beautifully designed, free theme called Vertigo. It makes great use of WordPress post formats. It has a charming, hitchcockian typeface for site and post…
March 2011
7 posts
New Theme: Liquorice →
Add a dash of color to your site with Liquorice, a wonderful new theme now available on WordPress.com.
Gorgeous textures and smooth-as-silk typography make this a striking backdrop for your…
Guided Transfers to .org →
When we launched Jetpack a few days ago Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg said to Techcrunch, “If you’re on WordPress you’re part of the family, it shouldn’t matter if we host you or not.”
…
Boost your self-hosted WordPress with Jetpack →
WordPress.com has grown into one of the most amazing cloud architectures in the world. This has enabled blogs hosted here to have features unavailable on self-hosted WordPress installs. This makes…
VideoPress now on iPhone, iPad, and HTML5 browsers →
Back in the middle of 2009, we launched our very own HD video service called VideoPress. Since then we’ve made a bunch of improvements including the ability to natively share videos in Facebook.
Some Turbulence →
You’ve probably noticed that the ride has been a bit bumpy on WP.com the past week with a widely covered DDoS attack last week and then another interruption a few hours ago from an unrelated…
WordPress Takes SXSW →
Next week a bunch of us from Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com, will be attending South by Southwest Interactive. It’s one of our favorite events of the year, and we hope to see…
More Choices With More Premium Themes →
There’s only one thing more exciting than an amazing new WordPress theme available for your site and that’s even more amazing new WordPress themes. With that in mind, I’m excited to announce that…
February 2011
4 posts
Changing styles on MobileApplication →
I am currently working on an AIR application for Android phones, using the Flash builder burrito build, currently the MAX drop.
I was given the task of changing the look of the application to be…
Prospecting in the 21st century →
New Theme: Duster →
I am rather pleased to announce the birth of a new Automattic theme designed and developed by the Theme Team. It goes by the name of Duster and is quite an interesting theme — if I may say so…
Stand out from the Crowd With a Premium Theme →
You love themes, I love themes, we all love themes. With millions of sites running on the state-of-the-art WordPress software and over a half-billion people visiting the Automattic network every…
January 2011
2 posts
Creating Hellogroup.com →
Want to blog better in 2011? We’re here to help. →
For those of you who want to take your blog to the next level in 2011 (perhaps you’ve stepped up to the Post a Day or Post a Week challenge), we’ve got your back.
From now on, we’ll be…
December 2010
3 posts
New Theme: Toolbox →
“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.”
—Dr. Emmett Brown
The streets of the future probably won’t be filled with flying cars and hover boards but the Web will be filled with more…
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
7 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…
Infinite Theme Styles with Custom CSS →
There are 100+ themes to choose from here at WordPress.com, and many of them have customizable backgrounds, menus, content layouts, and headers you can change yourself (like our new default theme…
October 2010
3 posts
Usability →
New Theme: Spectrum →
I’m happy to introduce Spectrum, a fine new addition to our ever-growing collection of themes. Spectrum comes as a colorful and fresh theme sporting a clean layout with one main column and a sidebar…
Texting: It’s Now For Blogging, Too →
Sometimes, you can’t always get to your computer, but you may really need to handle something important on your blog. That’s when a new feature we’re launching today — WordPress.com Text Messaging —…
September 2010
3 posts
Welcome Windows Live Spaces Bloggers →
We’re excited to announce that WordPress.com is now the default blogging platform for Windows Live Spaces users. We’ve worked with our partners at Microsoft to create a simple migration…
New Theme: Fusion →
I’m proud to introduce you to Fusion, our newest theme. The versatility of this theme makes it great for a variety of uses including technical blogs, long-form writing, posting code samples, and…