Recommended Reads for International Day of Disabled Persons
WordPress.com, as my colleague Anne recently wrote, continues to be a space for people to tell their personal stories and…
Celebrating Pride Month with Out in Tech
Happy Pride Month! Last year, I shared resources and highlighted organizations doing awesome work in the LGBTQ+ community. This year,…
Perspectives on Going Viral
You wake up one morning, check your phone, and spit out your coffee. You have thousands of likes on Facebook, hundreds…
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. This year’s creation, Twenty Sixteen,…
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 made more than 655 million…
“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.…
Jenny Diski on Writing, Love, and Cancer
Photo by Suki Dhanda We’ve been following writer Jenny Diski for many years at the London Review of Books, and…
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…