Three Ways to Showcase Instagram Photos on Your Website
Your Instagram account is a great way to share your life, products, and services online. With…
Field Notes: An Event Apart Boston 2016
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day….
Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites
For more than a decade, the word “blog” has been synonymous with “your home on the…
Get More Readers to Your Business Blog
Blogging is a great way to communicate with your customers and reach new ones. Business owner Phoebe…
Customizing Twenty Sixteen: Four Takes on Our Annual Theme
Every year we release an annual flagship theme as a blank canvas for bloggers, artists, professionals, and business owners….
Three Ways to Refresh Your Website in 2016
The new year is a great time to hit refresh and set new goals. If your…
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…
Three Tips for Picking a Domain Name
When you create a free website on WordPress.com, your site’s default address will look something like example.wordpress.com….
How to Choose the Best Theme for Your Business Website
Building a beautiful website for your business begins with choosing a theme — a design that controls…
What Inspires Us to Blog?
Every day, people from all around the world start a site on WordPress.com to share everything…
Five Ways to Boost your Site with Social Media
Looking for more traffic? Social media is your best friend. Every Facebook like and retweet helps…
New Themes: Libretto, Lovecraft, and Publication
Happy Theme Thursday! Today we’re introducing three new free themes to our collection: Libretto, Lovecraft, and…
Reinvented Video for WordPress
Today, we’re announcing a complete overhaul of VideoPress, the service that has powered more than 3,000,000,000…
New Theme: Lingonberry
It’s Theme Thursday, and we’re happy to present a brand new free theme for your enjoyment….
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…
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…
Five Themes for Writers and Readers
In the past, we’ve highlighted some of our favorite themes for longform enthusiasts and bloggers who…
One Theme, Three Ways: Customizing Twenty Fifteen
Our default theme this year, Twenty Fifteen, draws visitors’ eyes to what matters most — the text…