The WordPress.com Dashboard Gets a Beautiful Makeover

Each day, you blog, you create, and you make things with your WordPress.com site. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the code that runs WordPress.com gets updated dozens of times a day, as we deploy improvements. While you can't see the vast majority of those changes, there is one improvement we can't … June 17, 2013

DaddyBloggers in the Spotlight: A Father’s Day Roundup

Writing about family life and parenthood is not simply the province of mothers: dads are carving out their own blogular niche. Single dads, stay-at-home dads, working dads, two-dad families -- you can find every perspective on WordPress.com. As the US celebrates Father's Day, here are some dad blogs we love: DorkDaddy.com What's … June 16, 2013

Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves

Every post that glides into our Reader offers us a fresh perspective and an opportunity to peer into another blogger's mind. We're invited to enter new worlds, and examine the shapes, angles, and textures of the blogging craft itself. This week, once again, the diversity of the WorldPress.com community thrilled … June 14, 2013

New on WordPress for Android: Notifications

Need to get your WordPress.com Notifications on the go? With version 2.4 of WordPress for Android you'll see all your Notifications right on your Android device. Step away yet stay connected With the new streamlined Notifications view, you can step away from your computer but still stay connected to your readers. With … June 12, 2013

New Theme: Forefront

Today, I’m excited to announce our newest theme. Don’t worry, your calendar is not broken. :) It’s not Theme Thursday but we just couldn’t hold this theme back any longer! Front Page Template Example Forefront is a business and corporate theme designed by one of our own, Takashi Irie. The theme … June 11, 2013

The TED Blog: Telling Stories, Spreading Ideas

This week, TED's summer conference, TEDGlobal 2013, kicks off in Edinburgh, Scotland. At TEDGlobal, the world's innovators and thinkers gather to tell stories and share knowledge -- it's where disciplines and perspectives in business, technology, culture, and the arts merge and cross-pollinate, and where attendees are asked to pause and Think Again. Sounds … June 10, 2013

Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves

We love how blogs give us glimpses into the lives and experiences of people all over the world. We also love how they offer opinion, analysis, and on-the-ground perspectives on current events that are impossible to get anywhere else. This week, three standout posts gave us both: What is Happening in Istanbul? Hundreds … June 7, 2013

New Theme: Trvl

It's Thursday, and you know what that means on WordPress.com: new themes! Today we'd like to introduce you Trvl. Trvl is a tumblelog theme that’s all about blogging. With a beautiful and simple design by Danny Cohen, Trvl puts your posts front and center. Literally. It supports a variety of post formats to … June 6, 2013

Customizing Koi: 129 Twig & Vine

The past several months, we've highlighted a number of sites that use some of the popular free themes available on WordPress.com -- Oxygen, Bueno, and Sight to name a few. Visiting a site is a bit like walking into someone's house, and as you poke around, you'll notice someone's personal style … June 4, 2013

Weekend Reads: WPLongform Picks

This spring, we introduced the WPLongform tag, as we wanted to give bloggers who write longer pieces (of over 1,000 words) and longform readers a space within the WordPress.com Reader to share and discover new content, from nonfiction to fiction to experimental writing. We're glad to see many of you tagging your posts! … May 31, 2013