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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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: Pique
Today, we’re welcoming a new free theme to our collection: Pique.
Pique
Pique is a stylish and modern theme designed as a one-page scrolling site, giving your customers easy access to all your information in one place.…
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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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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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New Theme: Dyad
This Theme Thursday, we’re introducing a new free theme: Dyad.
Dyad pairs text and images in a balanced, dynamic layout, making it perfect for blogs where words and photographs need equal weight.…
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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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Five Ways to Boost your Site with Social Media
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.…
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Versatile Themes for Online Magazines
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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Early Theme Adopters: Libre
Out-of-the-box, Libre is an understated, reader-friendly theme that’s already become a WordPress.com favorite. As movie review blog Empty Screens demonstrates, it’s both crisp and classic:
Head to the Customizer, though, and you can build on Libre‘s strong foundation to create a site that reflects your unique POV.…
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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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New Themes: Colinear and Franklin
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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Introducing: Our New Action Bar
We strive to make all aspects of using WordPress.com streamlined and intuitive, from following a great new blog to editing a post on the go. Today, we’re happy to present the new action bar, which allows you to do all this (and more) no matter what device you’re on.…
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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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New Theme: Independent Publisher
On this Theme Thursday, we’re happy to announce the latest addition to our collection of free themes.
Independent Publisher
Independent Publisher is a clean and elegant theme by Raam Dev, with a clean and responsive layout ideal for personal bloggers and writers alike.…
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New Theme: Blask
Today I’m happy to introduce Blask, a free portfolio theme designed by Mel Choyce.
Blask
Blask is a modern portfolio theme that uses a clean, minimal layout to showcase your work. The…
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Whimsical Worlds: Artists to Follow Now
From colorful journal pages to creatures made of salvaged materials, here’s a glimpse at the imaginative worlds of textile and multimedia artists on WordPress.com.
The Pale Rook
We discovered Glasgow-based textile artist Johanna Flanagan after stumbling upon her post, “Artist’s Statement: Part Two,” and were immediately pulled into her curious world of dolls that are hand-drawn, sewn, and embroidered.…
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New Themes: Libretto, Lovecraft, and Publication
Happy Theme Thursday! Today we’re introducing three new free themes to our collection: Libretto, Lovecraft, and Publication.
Libretto
Featuring big, bold drop caps and oversized images, Libretto is ideal for showcasing longform writing or stunning imagery.…
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