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Here at WordPress.com, we‘re always looking for ways to improve the blogging experience. We pride ourselves on taking your suggestions to heart and work tirelessly to create better tools for you. Today, we’re releasing a game changer. As WordPress.com becomes easier to use, one piece of unanswered feedback keeps nagging at us: blogging is hard!…
Happy Theme Thursday, ladies and gentlemen! Let’s take a look at our two newest free themes, Saga and Satellite: Saga Saga, designed by the talented Justin Tadlock, is a theme tailor-made for writers, by a writer. The theme’s impeccable typography and attention to detail make for an enjoyable reading experience, and with support for large…
Kathy Cano-Murillo will present on how she became A DIY Success. Press Publish, the very first blogging conference organized by WordPress.com, will be held in Portland, Oregon, this Saturday. (Psst! We’ll be in Phoenix hosting Press Publish on April 18th, 2015.) Erick Prince-Heaggans will present Around the World in 80 Posts. Read moreHow To Create…
Cloud computing offers so many benefits that we cannot pinpoint at any one particular advantage it provides to the businesses. Still, we can say that it is the competency that it provides to the small and medium scale businesses, which allows them to not only sustain against the bigger rivals but in some cases even…
Want to know one of the worst things about administering a WordPress-based website? The media library. Specifically: allocating enough hosting space, backing it up, restoring it, and moving it between hosts if the site is being moved. Read moreKali NetHunter Updates | Kali Linux BlogThe more images your authors add to the library, the the…
Andrew Youderian • March 20, 2015 Here’s what an average day for someone running multiple businesses often looks like. They wake at the crack of dawn, check emails, check sales from last night, check inventory levels, check in on orders going out that day, check back on orders being processed that day, make a cup of…
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m pleased to present two new free themes designed especially for longform writing. Resonar Designed by yours truly, Resonar is an elegant blog theme with full-screen Featured Images. It’s perfect for blogs about fashion, food, or design, and the layout works especially well for longform features with large images. The…
We love blogs, but we love websites, too. Small businesses, personal portfolios, non-profit organizations, government websites — bring ’em on! These four sites are each beautiful, effective, and built on WordPress.com. Sandyfoot Farm Purple carrots, green grass, red tomatoes — rather than clashing, the images on Sandyfoot Farm’s site suggest abundance and health. Popular free theme Sela is the…
At present, Cloud computing has emerged as one of the most prominent topics in the field of information technology. There are IT giants such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft who are presenting some amazing examples of this new form of computing technology. A significant part of credit for the ever expanding field of cloud hosting…
With the advent of digital technology in the form of Internet spreading its wings worldwide, more and more businesses are coming ahead to establish their online presence everyday. But in the process of launching a website on Internet, it is highly necessary that one selects the right web hosting service to avoid the problems related…
Andrew Youderian • March 5, 2015 Last December I announced we were migrating our eCommerce store, Right Channel Radios, from the Magento shopping cart to Shopify. Not only were we migrating platforms, but we were also pouring $50,000 into a complete overhaul of the brand and the website design. After close to half a year’s worth of…
Maybe you’re working on a 365 project, with a photo for each day of the year. With a couple months under your belt, you might be looking for a new theme to showcase your work. Let’s check out four themes where the typography and color palettes step aside so that your photos get your visitors’…
When it comes to customer acquisition, digital marketing can seem to move at a glacial pace. Unlike traditional, more direct forms of marketing, customers drive the conversation with businesses online. The result is often a protracted courting process, and at the end of the day, success depends almost entirely on one thing: trust. Most of…
Website owners are posed with two options for hosting their website on the Internet. Either they can build their own hosting service in-house or they can hire the services of an outsourced web host. Most website owners are facing a dilemma in choosing between the two options. By just reviewing an overview of building a…
Registration for March’s Blogging U. courses is now closed, and both courses have started. Check back later in the month to learn more and register for April’s offerings! Blogging 101: Zero to Hero — March 2 – 20 Blogging 101 is three weeks of bite-size assignments that take you from “Blog?” to “Blog!” Every weekday, you’ll…
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Let’s dive right into a new free theme: Lyretail Designed by Mel Choyce, Lyretail is a stunning visual treat for your personal site. The theme puts your social presence front and center, displaying social links prominently below the site’s title and logo, so readers can easily find you on your favorite…
WordPress for iOS version 4.8 comes with exciting editor and navigation enhancements. Visual Editor We’re thrilled to announce that the 4.8 release includes a beautiful new visual editor. With the new editor, you can add rich text like bold, italics, links, and lists naturally as you type. You can also insert images with a tap,…
Over at The Daily Post, our first poetry-focused Blogging U. course, Writing 201: Poetry, has just entered its second week. It’s been a blast, with hundreds of poets sharing their work, experimenting with new forms, and commenting on their peers’ poems. After working hard on polishing their elegies, haiku, and ballads, most writers want to make sure their readers can enjoy their…
The Hunger Games franchise has grossed more than a billion dollars and is a certified global phenomenon. While the success can be tracked to compelling storytelling, big-budget effects, and a talented ensemble, it’s also due to the savvy use of social media. Later this year, the final film installment, Mockingjay Part 2 will conclude the…
Several years ago, writer Ann Morgan noticed that she didn’t read much literature from countries outside of the United Kingdom and United States — and had yet to dive into stories from around the globe. From this realization, her blog, A Year of Reading the World, was born. You can read about Ann’s journey in…