WordPress.com Bloggers Who Covered the Biggest News Stories of 2011 on Dec 5, 2011 in Community News As 2011 comes to end, we thought it’d be interesting to look back at the events that made headlines this year, and a few of the bloggers who were there in person (or closely connected to the events) to document history in the making. Here’...
Black Friday Sale: Free Custom Design with Any Premium Theme on Nov 25, 2011 in Upgrade It’s that time of the year again, and we decided to take care of all our users whether they feel like lining up in the cold to take advantage of today’s bargains or not. This year’s offer is about two upgrades that first saw the lig...
Google Knols Move to WordPress: The Annotum Platform on Nov 22, 2011 in WordPress.com Annotum Today, we’d like to give a warm welcome to Google Knol users who are migrating to WordPress.com. Begun in 2007, the Google Knol project has provided people in many fields with a place to share their knowledge and expertise with the world using...
New Theme: Delicious Magazine on Jun 16, 2011 in Themes If you’ve wanted a magazine theme for your blog but haven’t found just the right one today’s new theme might just do it for you. It’s called Delicious Magazine and it’s the latest in a series of terrific magazine themes...
New Theme: Spectrum on Oct 13, 2010 in Themes I’m happy to introduce Spectrum, a fine new addition to our ever-growing collection of themes. Spectrum comes as a colorful and fresh theme sporting a clean layout with one main column and a sidebar on the right. It supports custom menus, backg...
Texting: It’s Now For Blogging, Too on Oct 11, 2010 in New Features Upgrade WordPress.com Mobile SMS Text Messaging Sometimes, you can’t always get to your computer, but you may really need to handle something important on your blog. That’s when a new feature we’re launching today — WordPress.com Text Messaging — steps in to help. Thr...
Sexy Stats on Sep 30, 2010 in Design Stats You may have noticed a change to your stat charts a couple of weeks ago. We ditched Flash in place of a more robust charting library called Flot. If you didn’t notice, go check it out because you can view all of the new charts with modern brows...
New Theme: Fusion on Sep 21, 2010 in Themes I’m proud to introduce you to Fusion, our newest theme. The versatility of this theme makes it great for a variety of uses including technical blogs, long-form writing, posting code samples, and displaying large images. You can use Fusion just...
IE9 User? You’ll Love ‘Pinning’ Your Blog on Sep 17, 2010 in New Features If you use the new Internet Explorer 9 beta (IE9) on Windows 7 and have a blog on WordPress.com, you should definitely check out some cool new features. First, not only do the charts on your stats page load faster — thanks to new canvas element...
Want Instant Delivery of New Blog Posts & Comments? on Aug 25, 2010 in Features Jabber blogging technology Do you ever wish you could get instant notification of when your favorite bloggers update? Or even when a new comment is published on their blogs? If so, you might want to use a service called Jabber to make your blog conversations as fast as lightni...
