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…
Faster-Loading Images on Your Site
We always strive to make your sites run as quickly and smoothly as possible, both on the front…
Welcome to the New WordPress.com and WordPress.com App for Mac
What if WordPress.com helped you… … update your pages and respond to comments from a desktop app?…
“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…
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….
The WWWP5K: Your Photos and Stories
Last week we asked the WordPress.com community to join us for 5 km of walking, jogging,…
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…
Join Automattic’s Worldwide WP 5k 2015
The 2015 edition of the Automattic Worldwide WP 5k (#WWWP5k) is around the corner! Automatticians already hit the…
Field Notes: Tech Inclusion 2015
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day….
A Niche of Their Own: Five Sites to Check Out Today
The blogging community is huge and diverse, with thousands of smaller clusters of sites built around shared…
Introducing: Our New Action Bar
We strive to make all aspects of using WordPress.com streamlined and intuitive, from following a great new…
Get Up to Speed at learn.wordpress.com
If you just started a spandy new WordPress blog or site and want to work on…
Next Stop for Accelerate.LGBT: Dublin, Ireland
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is committed to diversity: providing a platform for everyone to publish on…
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…
Whimsical Worlds: Artists to Follow Now
From colorful journal pages to creatures made of salvaged materials, here’s a glimpse at the imaginative…