New Theme: Dark Wood on Mar 18, 2010 in Uncategorized Go against the grain with “Dark Wood,” an eye-catching and playful theme. Bright colors and whimsical icons fuse with dark tones to provide a pleasing and harmonious design. Dark Wood is a three column theme with a rich wood textured bac...
Rub-a-Dub-Dub in the PubSubHubbub on Mar 3, 2010 in Feeds atom pubsubhubbub rss From the tongue twisting name department we welcome PubSubHubbub, or as some people have shortened it to: PuSH. Like rssCloud, PuSH is a way for services that subscribe to updates from your blog (think Google Reader, Bloglines or Netvibes) to get up...
Post by Email Wrapup on Jan 28, 2010 in Features Email geotag polldaddy Since our Post by Email feature opened last year the emails have been coming in fast and furious. Here’s a wrap-up of some of the latest improvements. Bigger attachments We like to see photos and video in your posts, so we’ve increased th...
New Theme: monochrome on Jan 19, 2010 in Design Themes Sleek, and bursting with elegance, I’m happy to bring you monochrome, another addition to the wonderful collection of themes available on WordPress.com. monochrome is a beautiful theme with wonderful details. The name comes from the theme’...
Black Friday 20 hour 20% off sale now on! on Nov 27, 2009 in Upgrade Black Friday sale upgrades In the US there are some strange traditions, and one of them is the day after Thanksgiving when people line up from 3 or 4 in the morning to be the first people in a store when it opens to get some item for a really good price. This is ostensibly to...
Blog Subscriptions on Nov 25, 2009 in New Features comment Email newsletter subscription There are many ways of reading WordPress.com blogs and we’ve now added another: email subscriptions. This is a very simple way for your readers to subscribe to your blog and receive updates by email. Anyone can subscribe, whether they have a Wo...
Email Subscriptions on Nov 25, 2009 in New Features comment Email newsletter subscription There are many ways of reading WordPress.com blogs and we’ve now added another: blog subscriptions. This is a very simple way for your readers to subscribe to your blog and receive updates by email. Anyone can subscribe, whether they have a Wor...
Imaginative CSS on Sep 29, 2009 in Community Design I’m constantly finding sites on WordPress.com that leave me happily surprised. I ran across Wir sprechen Online a few weeks ago and just kept coming back to it. For both the content and the design. Wir sprechen Online is a P2 powered blog writ...
June Wrap-Up on Jul 2, 2009 in Wrapup Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn donations for the charity of your choice. July will bring more f...
May Wrap-Up on Jun 14, 2009 in Wrapup wrap Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever. May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of new features: the ability to add YouTube videos and polls to comments, stats in your time zone, the VideoPress upgrade (with HD!), post by email, new sta...