My Tips on WordPress.com
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, that’s creativity.
– Charles Mingus
From the time we started WordPress.com in 2005, we’ve focused on making it easy and rewarding to use so that anyone could get started with blogging. Along the way all of you who’ve been using WordPress.com and giving us your feedback have helped us figure out which features to roll out next. Thanks!
I took a look back at all the feature announcements we’ve made here, and it came to 370 posts, 82 in 2009 alone. That’s a lot of features. So in case you missed anything along the way here are some of my picks for cool things you can do with WordPress.com.
Create
We’ve set up lots of ways for you to write, post photos and videos, and generally add stuff to your blog, including mobile apps.
- Add quotes, images, and videos to your blog while browsing other web sites with the Press This bookmarklet.
- Post by email makes it easy to publish blog posts from any email client. (It’s what I use to post to my photoblog.)
- Post additional media to your blog, like video, with the VideoPress Upgrade and music, with the Space Upgrade
- Use shortcodes to display videos, slideshows, polls, maps, and more.
- Write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog using WordPress for iPhone, WordPress for Blackberry, and m.wordpress.com.
- Import your blog to WordPress.com from other platforms, like Blogger and TypePad.
- Schedule posts and pages so your blog can update itself, change your post and page timestamps, and display a page as your front page.
Personalize
You can also tweak how your blog looks, set the domain to be your own and pick your language.
- Customize the appearance of your blog with the Custom CSS Upgrade.
- Map your domain to remove “.wordpress.com” from your blog’s URL.
- Change the language of your dashboard and blogs, contribute translations to WordPress.com using GlotPress. We have support forums in Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
Share and Read
We’ve built in some cool sharing and reading features so you can easily let people know about your new posts and also see what other people are blogging.
- Publicize your blog using:
Email subscriptions for posts and comments
Twitter
Yahoo! Updates
RSS
- Subscribe to other blogs using:
Email subscriptions for posts and comments
The Tag Surfer
Readomattic
Jabber
Twitter
We’re working on much more for you in 2010. In the meantime check out Support for an updated list of features, and tips on making the most of your blog. Thanks for making WordPress.com amazing.
January 17th, 2010 at 6:15 am
WordPress on Android?
January 17th, 2010 at 7:05 am
all in 1 great work
January 17th, 2010 at 8:00 am
wicked! thanks a bunch, I’m a newbie!
January 17th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Thank you so much.
January 18th, 2010 at 4:48 am
Thank you for the hints!
January 18th, 2010 at 5:23 am
Cool….it helped a lot!
January 18th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Thanks a lot man!
I am just in love with wordpress. I use .org for our company blog and just got started on .com. Looking to transition soon with a domain of mine.
January 18th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Fabulous tip! I just started my blog and have only 4 posts and super surprised about how many reads I’ve received (over 700). My blog template is rather boring … going to check out the Custom CSS Upgrade.
Thanks for the info!
~melody~
January 18th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
good tips, thanks
January 18th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
As usual, great help, advice and support from WordPress. Thanks!
G
January 19th, 2010 at 2:35 am
great quote!!
January 19th, 2010 at 4:51 am
you guys are great !!., thanks for all you’ve done…
best regards.
January 19th, 2010 at 7:41 am
Thanks for the tips. Press This tip sounds very helpful.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Wow! great tips. Thank you for all.
January 19th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
If you left things as they are, I’d be happy and not worry about any upgrades.
I appreciate it.
January 19th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Awesome tips. Thanks!
January 19th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Thanks for this great work
January 19th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
I love using WordPress for iPhone on my iPod touch! Thank you WordPress!
January 20th, 2010 at 4:11 am
Thanks for making blogging so easy, even for techno-phobes likes me! Love the Iphone app as well!
Fun-Fun-Fun in the WordPress World
January 20th, 2010 at 9:51 am
Am new to this, actually am not even a week old and i am sure that these tips will help alot. SO thatnks a bunch for that
January 20th, 2010 at 10:51 am
Very Helpful! Thanks!
January 20th, 2010 at 11:41 am
Thanks and keep up the excellent work!
January 20th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Congratulation
January 20th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Is there a way to associate a personalized ‘favicon’ with a WordPress blog? But that, I mean the little image that shows up in the browser tab along with the name of the blog?
Thanks!
Kathryn
January 21st, 2010 at 12:13 am
Thank you. I’m still learning my way around. Hope you enjoy my contributions.
This is easier than it first seemed and many new and helpful applications are always being added.
It’s a writer’s dream!
Bobby
January 21st, 2010 at 12:57 am
WordPress is my favorite blogging platform. It’s fun, and easy to use.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:55 am
Thanks for wordpress and for your help…
January 21st, 2010 at 2:00 pm
thanks for your information . .
January 21st, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Thank you friend.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:21 pm
WordPress- by far the best blogging site about.
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:44 am
Just starting out hoping to add pictures a.s.a.p
January 22nd, 2010 at 9:16 am
thanks for user friendly blog site, for giving these tips ..,
January 22nd, 2010 at 9:18 am
Thanks WordPress
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:07 pm
This is really a great help to know all those features in a single page. So far my experience with wordpress has been really fruitful ..Thanks a lot!!
January 22nd, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Thanks
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:48 pm
thanks this is so cool:)
January 23rd, 2010 at 4:17 am
so good!!!! thanx for all..
January 23rd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
WordPress.com has been user friendly and beneficial to helping others. God bless.
January 24th, 2010 at 12:30 am
Thanks, great features
January 24th, 2010 at 12:51 am
Thanks for your tips. I’m a newbie, I’ll try these.
January 24th, 2010 at 6:57 am
So how about a good search engine button that works and a Table of Contents generator for the Blog.
Can you also improve the spell check—the current dies many times and is slow
January 24th, 2010 at 9:58 am
I’ve been blogging for some time but wordpress.com is a kind of treasure i just dug up. You made it more fun and easy and the tips and apps are awesome. In the coming days my presence will be felt. Thank you guys.
January 24th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Thanks for everything
January 24th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Thanks!!!
January 24th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Ok so if I wanna start a blog it’s just the design and the way of using the media that counts? mhm….
January 25th, 2010 at 12:05 am
the mingus quote says it all… love it!!!
January 25th, 2010 at 4:31 am
i wonder if you could post next time about how to get your blog google indexed or indexed by any web crawler?
January 25th, 2010 at 6:33 am
thx for information
January 25th, 2010 at 10:12 am
thanks very much…i love wordpress
January 25th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
that’s great bro..thanks for your Tips
January 26th, 2010 at 2:26 am
that would be awesome Yanguang
January 26th, 2010 at 4:40 am
I just love blogging on wordpress. I am slowly learning how to use it. Still don’t know how to remove the search feature from my page but it’s all fun…thanks!
January 26th, 2010 at 9:48 am
I am a computer-challenged person with no coding skills – You have made it very easy for me to have my own chemistry web page, fast-loading, free of ads and plugs, and so far I don’t even have to pay you for hosting me (although I may upgrade later on).
I encourage my friends and colleagues to give it a try and start their own WordPress blog. Please keep up at it!
January 26th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
WordPress rocks a lot. I just love it. And Thanks for your tips.
http://blogouter.com
January 26th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Thanks for the tips.
January 26th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Great article. Good tips to make it on WordPress!
January 26th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
I’m looking forward to adding audio and AddThis button to the posts…thanks for briefing…it helps me catch up.
January 26th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Excellent job Matt! I love the ease with which even relative newbies like me can use WordPress. This might not be the right forum but can you make the process easy so people who subscribe to CommentLuv can have their latest post displayed after their comment on my blog. I haven’t figured out how to make that happen on my WordPress blog.
Thank you!