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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,…

Five Ways to Boost your Site with Social Media

Web Monkey8 years ago07 mins

Looking for more traffic? Social media is your best friend. Every Facebook like and retweet helps you grow your audience and attract more customers. To ace your online strategy, optimize your website for social media.…

Versatile Themes for Online Magazines

Web Monkey8 years ago08 mins

Launching a magazine? At WordPress.com, you can choose from an ever-growing collection of themes. Here are four free and four premium themes to promote a wide variety of content.…

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New Theme: Sapor

Web Monkey8 years ago01 mins

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.…

New Themes: Colinear and Franklin

Web Monkey8 years ago01 mins

On this Theme Thursday, we have two new free themes for you: Colinear and Franklin. Colinear Colinear — our update to the older Coraline — is a squeaky-clean theme featuring a custom menu, header, background, and layout.…

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New Theme: Libre

Web Monkey8 years ago01 mins

Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m happy to introduce Libre, a new free theme designed by yours truly. Libre Libre brings a stylish, classic look to your personal blog or longform writing site.…

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Jenny Diski on Writing, Love, and Cancer

Web Monkey8 years ago06 mins

Photo by Suki Dhanda We’ve been following writer Jenny Diski for many years at the London Review of Books, and more recently on her WordPress.com blog.…

Social Media Icons Widget

Web Monkey9 years ago02 mins

Now available in a widget dashboard near you, we present the Social Media Icons Widget! No longer do you have to fiddle around with complicated HTML code to add beautiful social media icons to your blog or website.…

New Themes: Resonar and Scrawl

Web Monkey9 years ago02 mins

Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m pleased to present two new free themes designed especially for longform writing. Resonar Designed by yours truly, Resonar is an elegant blog theme with full-screen Featured Images.…

Five Themes for Poets (and Other Text-Loving Bloggers)

Web Monkey9 years ago05 mins

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.…

One Theme, Three Ways: Customizing Twenty Fifteen

Web Monkey9 years ago04 mins

Our default theme this year, Twenty Fifteen, draws visitors’ eyes to what matters most — the text and images you publish on your site. Crisp typography, generous spacing, streamlined navigation: Twenty Fifteen shows that less can indeed be more (and that it can look great on any device).…

One Central Hub for All Your Content

Web Monkey9 years ago05 mins

Last week, we announced a few updates to the WordPress.com interface, including faster stats and enhanced site management on both desktop and mobile devices. Our push to make all WordPress.com…

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Upgraded Stats and Navigation Enhancements

Web Monkey9 years ago04 mins

We’ve been updating WordPress.com to make it faster and more powerful behind the scenes. We’ve now introduced some changes to the WordPress.com interface as well, making website, blog, and content creation more intuitive and consistent across devices.…

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New Themes: Editor and Sequential

Web Monkey9 years ago02 mins

Today, we have two new free themes ready for you! Editor Meet Editor, a new addition to our theme collection designed by Mike McAlister at Array.…

Vote in Today’s US Midterm Elections

Web Monkey9 years ago05 mins

Today, across the United States, Americans will go to the polls and vote in the US Midterm Elections. Voting is our most fundamental responsibility as citizens — without it, our American democracy wouldn’t exist.…

2014 Midterm Elections, Get Out The Vote!

Web Monkey9 years ago06 mins

Since 2004, WordPress has set out with an ambitious goal in mind — to democratize publishing and put state-of-the-art tools in front of publishers both large and small across the planet.…

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New Themes: Minnow and Cols

Web Monkey9 years ago02 mins

We’re happy to introduce two brand new free themes today! Minnow Designed by Mel Choyce, Minnow is a light, simple theme that puts your social presence front and center.…

Back to Blogging: Ten Themes to Inspire You Right Now

Web Monkey9 years ago09 mins

Carving out your very own corner on the web is important to you. You may be a brand-new user on WordPress.com — if so, welcome! — or a veteran blogger returning to an old habit.…