Early Theme Adopters: Resonar
Resonar, designed by Automattic’s own Takashi Irie, made its debut in March. Created for food and design bloggers…
Recommended Reading: Authors on WordPress.com
Looking for summer reading suggestions? Or perhaps winter reading suggestions, should your hemisphere be the Southern…
New Themes: Nucleare and Afterlight
Nucleare Nucleare, by Cresta Project, is a classic blog theme with a crisp, elegant design and…
Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Your Account
Because we want to make WordPress.com accounts as secure as we can, we’ve made it easier…
Social Media Icons Widget
Now available in a widget dashboard near you, we present the Social Media Icons Widget! No…
New Theme: Cyanotype
It’s the time of the week again, Happy Theme Thursday! We’re pleased to present a new…
Keep Connected! Expats and Nomads Blog Around the World
We don’t write blogs purely for ourselves — we write them to be read. For people…
Celebrating Poetry, All Month Long
April is National Poetry Month, and we love each day’s flurry of new posts tagged #nationalpoetrymonth in the…
The Business of Freelancing, Blogging, and Books, According to Author Jennifer Armstrong
First, I should note: I am not related to Jennifer Armstrong. But! I have followed her…
Press Publish Livestream
Kathy Cano-Murillo will present on how she became A DIY Success. Press Publish, the very first…
New Themes: Resonar and Scrawl
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m pleased to present two new free themes designed especially for…
Websites for the Win: Four Home Pages
We love blogs, but we love websites, too. Small businesses, personal portfolios, non-profit organizations, government websites…
Four Themes for Photographers and Photobloggers
Maybe you’re working on a 365 project, with a photo for each day of the year….
March Blogging U. Courses: Blogging and Photo 101
Registration for March’s Blogging U. courses is now closed, and both courses have started. Check back…
Five Themes for Poets (and Other Text-Loving Bloggers)
Over at The Daily Post, our first poetry-focused Blogging U. course, Writing 201: Poetry, has just entered its…
A Year of Reading the World: A Q&A with Ann Morgan
Several years ago, writer Ann Morgan noticed that she didn’t read much literature from countries outside…
Customizing Radcliffe: From Elegant to Eclectic
A December 2014 addition to our library of themes, Radcliffe stands out with elegant yet modern fonts,…
Five Themes for Writers and Readers
In the past, we’ve highlighted some of our favorite themes for longform enthusiasts and bloggers who…
Press Publish Tickets
It is with great excitement that I announce the opening of ticket sales for the Press…
One Theme, Three Ways: Customizing Twenty Fifteen
Our default theme this year, Twenty Fifteen, draws visitors’ eyes to what matters most — the text…
Notifications just got a boost!
If you’ve been tuning in to Hot Off the Press, you’ll know about recent updates to the…