New Theme: Canapé
It’s the New Year, and we’re excited to kick it off with a new free theme!
Canapé
Canapé is a bold and refined theme, designed to help you create a beautiful online presence for your restaurant.…
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New Theme: Twenty Sixteen
We’re pleased to announce that Twenty Sixteen — the new WordPress default theme designed by Takashi Irie — is available to all WordPress.com sites.
Twenty Sixteen is a fresh take on the traditional blog format, with great features including:
Optional sidebar
Multiple menu positions and a social menu
Overhanging large images
Post intro and pull quotes
Handy customization options let you create your own look.…
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The New WordPress.com App for Windows Is Here
You asked, and we answered—quickly! Just weeks after unveiling the all-new WordPress.com and desktop app for Mac, we’re thrilled to introduce our new Windows app.
Now you can manage your sites, write and publish, and even customize your site and view stats from a dedicated app in your Windows Start Menu.…
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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?
… manage all your WordPress blogs and sites in one spot, on any device?…
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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 make sense of events. After last week’s devastating violence in Paris and Beirut, these nine bloggers shared theirs, helping us do just that. Reading…
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New Theme: Button
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m happy to present a new free theme in our collection, Button.
Button
Button is a theme that’s as cute as its name.…
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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 page layout, widget areas, and default style. With more than 350 free and paid themes on WordPress.com,…
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Field Notes: Tech Inclusion 2015
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do when not in front of a computer.…
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New Theme: Sapor
Today, I’ve got a great new theme for you called Sapor.
Sapor is a minimal theme that lets you showcase your passion, whether it’s cooking or gardening or healthy living.…
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Get Up to Speed at learn.wordpress.com
If you just started a spandy new WordPress blog or site and want to work on setup and configuration in your spare time, we’ve recently refreshed a resource that might be just the thing for you: learn.wordpress.com.…
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What a difference a header makes!
Our websites are our online homes. It makes sense that we want to give them personality and warmth, just like we do with our physical homes.
One of the simplest updates with the biggest impact is a custom header, a completely free feature that’s available to the majority of themes on WordPress.com.…
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New Themes: Baskerville and Edda
Happy Theme Thursday! Today I’m excited to introduce two new free themes to our collection.
Baskerville
Baskerville was designed by Anders Norén, and it displays writing, photos, and videos in a dynamic, grid-based layout.…
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New Themes: Nucleare and Afterlight
Nucleare
Nucleare, by Cresta Project, is a classic blog theme with a crisp, elegant design and plenty of handy features. A built-in search box, links to your favorite social networks, four widget areas, and beautifully styled post formats make this an ideal theme for your personal blog.…
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New Themes: Ecto and Coherent
Today, we’d like you to meet the two newest themes added to the WordPress.com collection: Ecto and Coherent.
Ecto
With a light color scheme, bold typography, and full-width images that draw readers straight to your content, Ecto is perfect for blogs of all kinds.…
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New Theme: Cyanotype
It’s the time of the week again, Happy Theme Thursday! We’re pleased to present a new free theme, Cyanotype:
Cyanotype
Cyanotype, designed by yours truly, is a monochromatic blog theme with a bold, yet simple look that sets your blog apart from the rest.…
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Celebrating Poetry, All Month Long
April is National Poetry Month, and we love each day’s flurry of new posts tagged #nationalpoetrymonth in the WordPress.com Reader and across the internet. WordPressers are busy in the #napowrimo tag as well, participating in NaPoWriMo, Maureen Thorson’s annual project that encourages and challenges poets to write a poem a day in April.…
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Websites for the Win: Four Home Pages
We love blogs, but we love websites, too. Small businesses, personal portfolios, non-profit organizations, government websites — bring ’em on! These four sites are each beautiful, effective, and built on WordPress.com.…
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Four Themes for Photographers and Photobloggers
Maybe you’re working on a 365 project, with a photo for each day of the year. With a couple months under your belt, you might be looking for a new theme to showcase your work.…
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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 second week. It’s been a blast, with hundreds of poets sharing their work, experimenting with new forms, and commenting on their peers’ poems.…
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Customizing Radcliffe: From Elegant to Eclectic
A December 2014 addition to our library of themes, Radcliffe stands out with elegant yet modern fonts, large featured images, and clean navigation that gets out of the way and puts your content front and center.…
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