Posterous Importer

Posterous is a blogging system that launched with an interesting twist -- everything happens via email from signup to posting. Since the launch of our post by email features in addition to things like email comment replies and blog subscriptions we've been receiving more inquiries from people wanting to graduate from … February 9, 2010

New Theme: Steira

Full of character yet minimal, we bring you the wonderful "Steira," bursting at the seams with detail and functionality. The sidebar is large in this theme giving you a lot of room to play. Any widget will do, but the custom widgets are quite convenient and stylish. The "Recent Comments" widget is especially … February 8, 2010

Improved Polls and Ratings

We have made a couple of updates to the polls and ratings feature on WordPress.com that you may have already noticed. Ratings on front page There is now an option in the ratings settings to allow you to display your posts ratings on the front page. Usage is very simple – pick … February 4, 2010

Post by Email Wrapup

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 the size of emails that can be sent, now up … January 28, 2010

Vox Importer

Thinking of moving your blog from Vox.com to WordPress.com? You are not alone. We’ve noticed that several people are dissatisfied with the service and want to move their blog elsewhere. A lot of people that we’ve heard from say they didn’t realize that there is no way to export from Vox … January 27, 2010

WordPress Personas for Firefox

Last week Mozilla released Firefox 3.6, the latest and greatest version of their open source Web browser. To mark the occasion, we worked with designer Chad Pugh to create a couple of brand new WordPress Personas for Firefox. Personas are like skins for your browser, and these designs are a … January 25, 2010