Three Ways to Refresh Your Website in 2016
The new year is a great time to hit refresh and set new goals. If your…
The 2015 WordPress.com Year In Review!
Here’s an incredible fact: together, you published more than 660 million posts on WordPress.com in 2015, and…
What Was Your Favorite Post You Wrote in 2015?
The last few weeks of the year are the perfect time to look back and reflect…
What Are Your Blogging Goals for 2016?
You may not bother with resolutions for the new year, but setting goals for your blog helps…
“Don’t be who ISIS wants you to be”: Bloggers on Paris and Beirut
Telling stories has power; they connect us, help us work through the raw emotion, and give us a way to…
Five Posts that Made Us Think
What makes a great blog post? We all have our pet criteria: sharp prose. Enlightening content. Stunning…
The WWWP5K: Your Photos and Stories
Last week we asked the WordPress.com community to join us for 5 km of walking, jogging,…
What Inspires Us to Blog?
Every day, people from all around the world start a site on WordPress.com to share everything…
Versatile Themes for Online Magazines
Launching a magazine? At WordPress.com, you can choose from an ever-growing collection of themes. Here are four…
Early Theme Adopters: Libre
Out-of-the-box, Libre is an understated, reader-friendly theme that’s already become a WordPress.com favorite. As movie review blog Empty Screens demonstrates, it’s…
What a difference a header makes!
Our websites are our online homes. It makes sense that we want to give them personality and…
Heather Matarazzo’s Personal Stories from Inside and Outside Hollywood
Actor Heather Matarazzo has only published a few posts on her new blog, but each one…
#LoveWins! LGBTQ Bloggers Make Their Voices Heard
You might have noticed the rainbow banner across the top of WordPress.com over the weekend — our…
Jenny Diski on Writing, Love, and Cancer
Photo by Suki Dhanda We’ve been following writer Jenny Diski for many years at the London…
Recommended Reading: Authors on WordPress.com
Looking for summer reading suggestions? Or perhaps winter reading suggestions, should your hemisphere be the Southern…
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…
Four Themes for Photographers and Photobloggers
Maybe you’re working on a 365 project, with a photo for each day of the year….
One Theme, Three Ways: Customizing Twenty Fifteen
Our default theme this year, Twenty Fifteen, draws visitors’ eyes to what matters most — the text…
Editors’ Picks of the Year: Notable Reads on WordPress.com
Our editors dove into the archives to resurface top posts published on WordPress.com this year, from…
Surviving a Stroke at 33 (and Blogging About It)
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee suffered a stroke when she was 33, and she has written about her…
New Theme: Intergalactic
We have a brand new free theme for your blogging pleasure today! Intergalactic Designed by Automattic’s…