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Every year we release an annual flagship theme as a blank canvas for bloggers, artists, professionals, and business owners….
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…
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…
Register Now for WordCamp US in Philadelphia!
We’re less than a month away from the inaugural WordCamp US, the largest WordPress conference in…
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….
New Theme: Button
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m happy to present a new free theme in our collection,…
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…
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…
Reader Refresh
Today, we’re proud to present an improved version of the WordPress.com Reader. We’ve made the Reader…
Reinvented Video for WordPress
Today, we’re announcing a complete overhaul of VideoPress, the service that has powered more than 3,000,000,000…
#LoveWins! LGBTQ Bloggers Make Their Voices Heard
You might have noticed the rainbow banner across the top of WordPress.com over the weekend — our…
Early Theme Adopters: Gazette
Gazette is a theme that balances rich functionality with a pleasant, non-obtrusive look. Depending on your…
Recommended Reading: Authors on WordPress.com
Looking for summer reading suggestions? Or perhaps winter reading suggestions, should your hemisphere be the Southern…
Web Publishing for All! Introducing Community Translator Tools
Publishing tools for everyone Roughly half of the content and traffic on the internet is in…
A Large-Screen Interface and Filters for Notifications
A few months ago we released a new notifications interface on WordPress.com — we made notifications…
Press Publish Tickets
It is with great excitement that I announce the opening of ticket sales for the Press…
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…
Vote in Today’s US Midterm Elections
Today, across the United States, Americans will go to the polls and vote in the US…
2014 Midterm Elections, Get Out The Vote!
Since 2004, WordPress has set out with an ambitious goal in mind — to democratize publishing…