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Baseball Fans: Show Your Pride This Postseason with Our MLB Themes

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:11:48 -0400

Baseball Fans: Show Your Pride This Postseason with Our MLB Themes:

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

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:31:01 -0400

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

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:47:28 -0400

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…

Coming to a WordCamp Near You

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:26:04 -0400

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

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:17:33 -0400

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

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:03:29 -0400

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

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:04:01 -0400

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

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:53:16 -0400

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…

New Theme: Skeptical

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:31:05 -0400

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

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:31:20 -0400

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

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:52:50 -0400

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

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:43:07 -0400

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

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:18:28 -0400

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

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:58:49 -0400

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 in a book. The top chapter number gives an overview of the chapters and also a visual bookmark of the post you are currently viewing.

New Theme: Blogum

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:16:53 -0400

New Theme: Blogum:

Today we are introducing a clean and minimalist theme, Blogum.

The Blogum Theme

New Theme: React

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:07:24 -0400

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

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 06:15:46 -0400

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.

3 New Ways to Attract More Twitter Followers from WordPress.com

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:13:05 -0400

3 New Ways to Attract More Twitter Followers from WordPress.com:

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…

What makes a good UX designer?

Thu, 26 May 2011 12:59:31 -0400

What makes a good UX designer?

Now More Than Ever: Just Write

Thu, 19 May 2011 22:37:15 -0400

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…