Tips from a Web Designer: On Widgets, Themes, and Essential Tools
Web and marketing designer Matt Sweeny builds websites on WordPress.com for a range of clients, including…
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A Faster Mobile Web: WordPress.com Updates for Accelerated Mobile Pages
Earlier this year we were proud to announce that WordPress.com users’s sites would automatically support Accelerated…
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Introducing: Data for Breakfast!
The Data Team at Automattic is pleased to announce a new blog for everyone who…
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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…
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Customize Your Site’s Footer Credit
Every WordPress.com site displays a footer credit — a line of text at the bottom of the…
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Make the Most of Our New SEO Settings Panel
WordPress.com has always taken care of your site’s search engine optimization (SEO) behind the scenes. Whether…
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Field Notes: An Event Apart Boston 2016
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day….
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Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites
For more than a decade, the word “blog” has been synonymous with “your home on the…
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Three WordPressers Making a Splash
We love celebrating the achievements of those who use WordPress to share their talents with the world,…
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A Faster Mobile Web for All WordPress.com Users: AMP Is Here
Your sites are about to get even faster on mobile devices: starting today, WordPress.com sites support…
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Perspectives on Going Viral
You wake up one morning, check your phone, and spit out your coffee. You have thousands of…
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Field Notes: The Codex Hackathon 2016
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day….
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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….
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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…
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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?…
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“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…
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Five Posts that Made Us Think
What makes a great blog post? We all have our pet criteria: sharp prose. Enlightening content. Stunning…
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Register Now for WordCamp US in Philadelphia!
We’re less than a month away from the inaugural WordCamp US, the largest WordPress conference in…
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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….
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New Theme: Button
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m happy to present a new free theme in our collection,…
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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…
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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…
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Reader Refresh
Today, we’re proud to present an improved version of the WordPress.com Reader. We’ve made the Reader…
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Reinvented Video for WordPress
Today, we’re announcing a complete overhaul of VideoPress, the service that has powered more than 3,000,000,000…
