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WordPress.com by the Numbers: the November Hot List
Now that November’s NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) is a fond memory and your blogging habit is firmly entrenched, it’s time to take a peek back at November by the numbers on WordPress.com....
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Introducing the WP Photos App for Firefox OS
WP Photos is a nifty new photoblogging app for Firefox OS that works with your WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress blog. Photo sharing made simple WP Photos is a straightforward, no-nonsense...
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Transform Your Blog’s Look with Custom Fonts
Last month, Matt Wiebe announced a collection of new fonts for users with the Custom Design upgrade. In the past, we’ve highlighted blogs using fonts in creative, effective ways, so we wanted to dive...
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Publicize to Your Google+ Pages
Back in September we announced some cool new ways to connect your WordPress.com site to your Google+ account. One major improvement was the ability to bring your WordPress.com and Google+ profiles...
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New Themes: Spirit and Spun
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I’m proud to introduce two new free themes to the WordPress.com theme family. Spirit Spirit is a festive treat for your personal blog, complete with softly falling snow...
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Five WordPress.com bloggers help you survive the holiday season
It’s easy to get a little frazzled in December — for many of us, it’s the perfect storm of holidays, family, travel, and work. Luckily, following the sage advice of some insightful WordPress.com...
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Customizing TheStyle: One Theme, Five Ways
TheStyle is a premium magazine-style theme, great for news sites and sites with multiple contributors (as well as blogs). Thanks to a modular layout and innovative background animation, it can go from...
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New Theme: Awesome
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new Graph Paper Press theme here on WordPress.com, the aptly-titled Awesome. Awesome is a theme that stuns from the start, with full-width images, video, and...
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Planet Automattic: Bytes from the People who Make WordPress.com
WordPress.com is the biggest blogging platform around, and one of the most visited websites in the world. Yet the team that keeps it running is an intimate group of 224 Automatticians (thinking of...
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WordPressers in the Press — December Edition
Last week, we shared a few facts and figures on your prolific posting tendencies and a bit about some of the posts that recently grabbed your attention. Let’s take a look at one comedienne who’s gone...
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New Themes: Photolia, Flounder, Vision, Bexley, and Bromley
This week we have a roundup of no less than five new themes now available on WordPress.com. Happy holidays! Photolia Photolia by UpThemes is a responsive, single-column theme perfect for organizing...
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Editors’ Picks of the Year: The Best of WordPress.com in 2013
This week, our editors dove into the archives to find and rediscover notable posts published this year on WordPress.com, from nonfiction to poetry, and photography to illustration. These posts have...
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Going Viral on WordPress.com: 26 Million Views and Counting — Seth’s Story
On November 2, 2013, Seth Smith hit publish on an article entitled Marriage Isn’t For You. Within a few hours, his self-hosted WordPress site couldn’t handle the tens of thousands of visitors reading...
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Add That Personal Touch to Your Blog with a Custom Header
One of the best free customization tools on WordPress.com is the ability to upload a custom header image. Using a custom header is a great way to showcase your style and personality on your blog. When...
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2013 Projects: 365 Days, 52 Weeks
Many of you use WordPress.com as a daily or weekly outlet to develop your craft (as seen in our popular writing and photography challenges on The Daily Post), or as a platform to chronicle your own...
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Get your new blog off to a great start (Hint: we can help!)
Publishing a blog can be tons of fun, and a great way to make friends and create opportunities. Starting one couldn’t be easier: sign up, pick a theme, and off you go. But maintaining one and building...
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2013: A Year in Review
With 2013 behind us, we can now take a look at our community’s incredible accomplishments over the past year. Here’s the year that was on WordPress.com. 13,704,819 new blogs in 2013 That’s a 36%...
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Show Yourself Off in 2014: Profiles, Portfolios, and Personal Pages
When you refresh your résumé for the new year, why not also refresh (or create!) your online presence? An online portfolio highlights you in a whole new way. Portfolios aren’t just for artists —...
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Get Inspired: Blog Ideas for 2014
Write more. Paint more. Photograph more. Do something amazing. Go down a different path. Challenge myself. New year’s resolutions — you might make ‘em, or you may think they’re trite and a waste of...
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New Themes: Motif and Suits
It’s the first Theme Thursday of 2014, and we’re kicking the year off with two new free themes. Motif was designed to help you create a beautiful online presence for your business. You can integrate...
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