The WordPress.com Referral Program: Encourage Others to Start a Website
All of us know interesting people with unique talents. Some have business ideas. Others write beautiful poetry. Some are inspired to make the world a better place. …
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Coming Soon: Make Your Site Private Until You’re Ready to Launch
When you create a new site, you may want to personalize it before making it public. On WordPress.com, we give you a safe space where you can work on building and editing your site until you’re ready to share it with the world.…
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How to Move Your Classes Online — and Charge for Them
We are proud to host many websites for language tutors, yoga schools, and personal fitness coaches around the world.
It’s exciting to see how educators and consultants across different industries are getting creative with their online offerings: language teachers conduct 1:1 sessions to help students hone pronunciation, yoga studios livestream group sessions, and instructors lead writing boot camps via Zoom breakout rooms.…
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The creation of our first digital story using the block editor
We write a lot of blog posts. And, not only about SEO topics, but also about our mission, company culture, and our broader vision. We hope that by writing those kinds of posts we can give you a glimpse into who we are as a company, and who we are as people.…
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WordPress.com and Fiverr Partner to Launch “WordPress.com Fundamentals” Course
Getting your new business website ready for launch? Want a little hand-holding — a step-by-step tutorial on setting up a WordPress.com site from start to finish, that you can work on at your own pace and on your own time?…
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Boost Visitor Engagement and Grow Your Mailing List with the Mailchimp Block
Keeping your visitors interested is the key to a successful website—and one great way to do that is with email. A smart email outreach plan piques peoples’ interest, keeps them engaged, and brings them back to your website.…
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Electric Literature Moves to WordPress — Here’s How an Indie Publisher Thrives on the Open Web
Electric Literature launched 10 years ago in Brooklyn, New York, as a quarterly print journal with a mission to make literature more relevant, exciting, and inclusive.…
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Add A Simple Payment Button To Your WordPress.com Site
May 2016: Hajj Flemings, CEO of Rebrand Cities with renowned photographer, Shawn Lee, in a redesigned school bus en route to working with small business owners in Detroit.…
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A Brand New Editor for the WordPress Mobile Apps
Now that so many of us carry around tiny pocket-size computers, more and more of our Internet time happens on phones and tablets — not just browsing, but creating.…
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A Few Tiny Steps Towards an Improved Writing Space at WordPress.com
Today we’re proud to unveil some design changes to the WordPress.com editor. It has the same great features you’ve come to expect, but with a cleaner, more refined experience — and a few new improvements, like a distraction-free writing mode.…
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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 all that great content, why not showcase your Instagram account on your website or blog?…
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Three Ways to Refresh Your Website in 2016
The new year is a great time to hit refresh and set new goals. If your website looks and feels a little stale, now is the time to make a change!…
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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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New Theme: Gazette
It’s Theme Thursday, and we’re happy to launch a brand new free theme.
Gazette
Gazette, designed by yours truly, is a clean and flexible theme perfectly suited for minimalist magazine-style sites, personal blogs, or any content-rich site.…
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New Theme: Twenty Fifteen
It’s that time of year again. The snow has started falling in northern countries, friends are gathering together to exchange presents, and it’s time to launch a beautiful new annual theme for WordPress.…
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Emoji Everywhere ?
Emoji? What are they?
“Emoji” is a Japanese term meaning “picture character.” It’s a standard for showing smileys and other little symbols inside text. But unlike traditional smileys that are made up of a sequence of letters like :), every emoji has its own letter.…
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A New My Sites Section
My Sites just got a new look, but more importantly, it got a technical overhaul, making the page dramatically faster and more powerful.
From one central location, scan and select any of your WordPress sites or create new ones with the support of a more visual interface.…
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