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Keep Your Upgrades in Order
2012-03-26 12:00:00
As more and more of you take advantage of our fabulous Upgrades, we’ve been conscious of the increasing need to offer a great way to manage your purchases. What if you could track all of your upgrades, manage them, renew them and *gasp* even cancel them, all in one place? Well, starting today you’ll see [...]
New Themes: Standard and Chalk
2012-03-22 15:18:14
Today I’m happy to announce two great new additions to our collection of premium themes. First, we have Standard, a sleek, exacting theme designed by 8BIT for professional blogging with an emphasis on contextual display of your content. Your content, in each of its various forms, deserves to be presented with unique distinction. Thanks to [...]
Celebrate Your Milestones
2012-03-21 12:01:15
Once in a while, it’s important to stop, catch your breath, and look at your accomplishments before you move on to the next thing — to put a stake in the ground that says, “I made it this far!” Today, we’re rolling out a couple of notifications to help you celebrate your blog activity milestones. From [...]
New Themes: Ari and San Kloud
2012-03-20 11:46:45
Today, I’m excited to introduce the latest additions to our ever-growing collection of free themes. First up is Ari—a responsive and minimal blog theme designed by Elmastudio. This theme is beautiful out of the box but it’s also packed with cool features including two color schemes, three custom color options, a custom header image, a [...]
Bestselling Author Shares 3 Tips for Building Your Blog Audience
2012-03-15 18:02:20
After moving from New York City to Chicago and getting married, Rachel Bertsche realized that her new life was missing one crucially important thing: a local best friend. So she decided to go on one friend date every week for a year, and she documented her quest on a WordPress.com blog at MWFseekingBFF.com. But before [...]
Posterous Joins Twitter
2012-03-13 12:40:56
It’s been just over two years since we first launched our Posterous importer and I never could have predicted how the blogging space would evolve so quickly in that time. As you may have seen in the news today, the Posterous team is joining Twitter, which we know will be exciting for our friends at [...]
Where in the World?
2012-03-09 08:58:50
If you’ve ever wondered where on Earth all the visitors to your site are coming from, this feature is for you! Mosey on over to your My Stats tab on the WordPress.com homepage: …and check out the brand new “Views by Country” panel. Now, you can see at a glance exactly which countries comprise your audience: When [...]
New Themes: Sunspot and Triton Lite
2012-03-08 15:02:29
Today we’ve got two great new free themes for you: Sunspot and Triton Lite. Inspiration for Sunspot came from one of our older and beloved classics, Sunburn (and perhaps a bit from the recent solar storms). A sharp theme with subtle grid lines and sun-splashed accents, Sunspot is a great all-purpose canvas for your blog, [...]
Comment Notifications!
2012-02-10 11:46:57
A few months ago we added Notifications to the WordPress.com Toolbar and recently we released a Chrome extension so that you can always keep up with the activity on your blog. Today we’re adding comment notifications, complete with comment moderation and reply functionality. When your post receives a comment, you’ll get a Notification that looks something like [...]
Get Married With WordPress
2012-01-12 10:07:54
One of the most important events of your life might just be your wedding. It also might be one of the craziest, disorganized, mixed-up times of your life too. We’d like to help with that a bit with a free wedding theme we call Forever. Along with a handful of cool features we’ll get to [...]