Making your posts more beautiful on Aug 11, 2011 in Design Social Here at WordPress.com we care about making things look good. Automattic, Inc., our parent company, invests heavily in design: every engineering team has a full-time designer. We know making things look and feel great is important and we love making...
New Theme: Pink Touch 2 on Aug 9, 2011 in Themes Today we’re excited to introduce the latest addition to our themes — Pink Touch 2, a nicely designed theme that has a stellar mix of color, texture, and typography. Originally designed by Kcmr, Pink Touch 2 pays close attention to detail. The ind...
World IPv6 Day on Jun 8, 2011 in Technical ipv6 To show our support for IPv6, and as part of our IPv6 migration plan, we have enabled dual stack connectivity on our blog on this occasion of World IPv6 Day. If you view this site over IPv6, you will see a visual indicator confirming access from IPv6...
New Theme: Twenty Eleven on Jun 6, 2011 in Themes Last year on WordPress.com we introduced the world to the first new WordPress default theme in 5 years — the first annual default theme — Twenty Ten. Now it’s our pleasure to introduce you all to its successor, Twenty Eleven. It mig...
Twitter Blackbird Pie Just Got Even Sweeter on Mar 30, 2011 in New Features Social Last November we launched Twitter Blackbird Pie, a quick and easy way to reproduce beautiful, full-fledged tweets — not just static screenshots of tweets — in your posts, pages, and even comments. Today we are happy to announce that we’ve...
Some Turbulence on Mar 8, 2011 in Downtime You’ve probably noticed that the ride has been a bit bumpy on WP.com the past week with a widely covered DDoS attack last week and then another interruption a few hours ago from an unrelated network maintenance issue. Our core mission is enabli...
WordPress Takes SXSW on Mar 4, 2011 in Community WordPress sxsw Next week a bunch of us from Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com, will be attending South by Southwest Interactive. It’s one of our favorite events of the year, and we hope to see many of you there in person. This year WordPress and Automat...
Infinite Theme Styles with Custom CSS on Nov 17, 2010 in Customization Design There are 100+ themes to choose from here at WordPress.com, and many of them have customizable backgrounds, menus, content layouts, and headers you can change yourself (like our new default theme Twenty Ten), and we have many more new themes planned.
It’s 2am, Where Are Your Posts? on Sep 11, 2010 in Features Posting Email Have you ever read one of your old posts and thought something was different? Maybe a few words were changed, the formatting was different, or an entire paragraph was missing. You poured your heart and soul into the post and didn’t know someone...
Introducing Subscriptions on Sep 10, 2010 in Features reader subscriptions Do you have trouble keeping track of all the blogs you read each morning? You may use RSS feeds to keep track, but those can be tricky to manage for a non-technical person. You may also open multiple tabs and scan through every blog, but that becomes...
