I’m pleased to announce the latest addition to the ever-growing collection of free themes here at WordPress.com. Retro-fitted by Justin Tadlock mixes subtle textures with clean lines and shadows to create a beautifully balanced composition perfect
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
Happy Tuesday! We’ve got two unique free themes for you today, and they are quite a study in contrasts. Our first theme, Splendio, dazzles with an unconventional yet stylish design from Design Disease that pops out of the box — literally.
Would you like to post videos to your blog while you’re on the go? Are you interested in a photography theme that’s also video-friendly? Well, look no further, because we have some news for you. The VideoPress upgrade, which allows you to
Today, I’m excited to introduce the latest additions to our collection of premium themes. Designed by Andy Rutledge, Currents, is a responsive, minimal yet attractive premium theme from WooThemes. Currents is perfect for news driven sites. The
We’ve recently noticed that a fair number of you have been bringing your tumblelogs over from Tumblr to WordPress.com using one of the variety of Tumblr to WXR conversion tools which exist on the web. We thought you would appreciate an easier way
Want to receive WordPress.com notifications instantly, even when you’re not on WordPress.com? Add the new WordPress.com extension for Chrome and as soon as you get a new follower or a new like on one of your posts, a notification will appear in
Are you addicted to checking your site stats? You are not alone. The stats dashboard has always been one of the most popular admin screens. It’s gratifying to know that people are visiting your place online. With the WordPress.com front page evolving
As we mentioned last week, you can like and reblog posts directly from your reader, which displays a stream of all the updates published on all the blogs you follow from your WordPress.com account. We’ve also brought the reblog button back to the
It’s been an extra big week in the news ’round these parts, so much so that the launch announcement of our latest premium theme seems like an extra extra good way to headline our Friday. Newsy is a versatile business and news-friendly theme
If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader
Have you been paying attention to all the hubbub online about the proposed U.S. legislation (SOPA/PIPA) that threatens internet freedom? I wrote about it last week over on WordPress.org, but the gist is this: there’s a bill in the U.S.
Today we’ve got a new theme for you that is so fresh and clean that it’s called…Fresh & Clean. Designed by AJ Clarke, Fresh & Clean is a responsive, spick-and-span theme that lets you put your best content forward with
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
Italian blogging service Splinder.com is closing down at the end of this month, and we’d like to extend a hearty “Benvenuto” to any Splinder users who’re looking for a new blogging home. To help make migration easier, we’ve
To celebrate the New Year we decided to offer you more space for your precious media. Our previous space upgrade levels have been increased without any additional cost for you as follows: 5GB → 10GB 15GB → 25GB 25GB → 50GB 50GB →
I’m excited to announce we’ve added two great new premium themes to our ever-growing collection of themes today. First up is Duet – a responsive, minimal, and sophisticated design from The Theme Foundry. Duet is tailored for writers,
If you were going to blog about one thing for an entire year, what would you choose? Would you post photographs of your favorite place? Interview different people from your hometown? Create a new piece of art each day? Here are eight unique blog projects
If you’ve been itching to turn your blog into an online newspaper or magazine, Nuntius could be your perfect companion. Based on the highly-popular News theme designed by Justin Tadlock, Nuntius contains many smart features that help your readers
Illustration by Caroline Hadilaksono We’ve got a little year-end tradition here at WordPress.com. Every year, we commission an artist to spread some WordPress-themed holiday cheer. For 2011, Caroline Hadilaksono has created a warm and joyful scene
It’s Android blogging, re-imagined. Today we’re announcing the release of WordPress for Android 2.0, a major update that focuses on a new UI and enhanced post editor features. Check the video: So what’s new? Brand New Look The Dashboard
For months we’ve been studying how, when and why people publish their posts, and what the common tasks are people perform afterwards. We know many of you immediately want to see what your post looks like, check for typos, and then share your post
Would you like some more Twitter in your WordPress? We got ya. As an update to our ever-popular Tweet embedding functionality we’re supporting Twitter’s new embed API to enable richer, better looking, and more functional Tweets inside your
I received a Cataclysm beta invitation. Perhaps I will have material again. Filed under: Blog Tagged: Cataclysm beta
Our little guild turned 3 years old last week on May 15th. Between tweaking our LK25 strat to make it work for our raid and planning our festivities to celebrate the anniversary, life was busy in-game. In a way, our 3rd anniversary was made even more
I’ve been neglecting the blog lately. Namely because my focus has been on killing the Lich King in game on 25m. Well, now that’s done and over with! So now back to our regularly scheduled programming… Filed under: Blog Tagged: Blog
The Grid that comes “out of the box” is very simple, compared to what you can do with it. If you don’t have any plug-ins installed for Grid (what? addons for an addon?), you get 4 corner indicators, 2 lines of text, one bar indicator,
I get a lot of questions from people who see screenshots of my UI, wondering why I have this addon or that addon, when my main capacity is that of a healer. Some of these addons are mainly DPS-centric or just plain unnecessary to do my job as a healer.
I generally don’t do the patch update posts since sites like WoW.com and MMO-Champion do such a better job of doing the long and short lists of what we need to know but I also need to make some notes for myself. I need to remember that today is the
Over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed that the most popular post (right after the Power Auras Classic how-to post) is the one suggesting an alternative strategy to downing Professor Putricide.
Well, good news, everyone! I recorded our encounter