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New Theme: On Demand
Published on 2012-03-29 11:00:38
Another beautiful theme worthy of the red carpet has been added to our ever-expanding cast of premium upgrades. Designed by Jason Schuller of Press75, On Demand was created to bring videos front and center. Adding them into posts is a snap, and you’re free to use virtually any embeddable video format from any video service. [...] > read more
Keep Your Upgrades in Order
Published on 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 [...] > read more
Guided Transfers to .org
Published on 2011-03-11 09:39:49
When we launched Jetpack a few days ago Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg said to Techcrunch, “If you’re on WordPress you’re part of the family, it shouldn’t matter if we host you or not.” Today we’re taking that a > read more
Boost your self-hosted WordPress with Jetpack
Published on 2011-03-09 11:00:37
WordPress.com has grown into one of the most amazing cloud architectures in the world. This has enabled blogs hosted here to have features unavailable on self-hosted WordPress installs. This makes us sad, since here at WordPress.com we want every Wo > read more
VideoPress now on iPhone, iPad, and HTML5 browsers
Published on 2011-03-08 21:14:23
Back in the middle of 2009, we launched our very own HD video service called VideoPress. Since then we’ve made a bunch of improvements including the ability to natively share videos in Facebook. Today we are happy to announce a new set of capab > read more
Some Turbulence
Published on 2011-03-08 10:50:59
You’ve probably noticed that the ride has been a bit bumpy on WP.com the past week with a widely covered DDoS attack last week and then another interruption a few hours ago from an unrelated network maintenance issue. Our core mission is enabli > read more
WordPress Takes SXSW
Published on 2011-03-04 14:17:42
Next week a bunch of us from Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com, will be attending South by Southwest Interactive. It’s one of our favorite events of the year, and we hope to see many of you there in person. This year WordPress and Automat > read more
More Choices With More Premium Themes
Published on 2011-03-02 10:01:23
There’s only one thing more exciting than an amazing new WordPress theme available for your site and that’s even more amazing new WordPress themes. With that in mind, I’m excited to announce that today we have three new Premium Them > read more
New Theme: Choco
Published on 2011-02-25 11:35:55
Say hello to our newest theme, Choco. If I had to sum this theme up in just one word, it’d be stylish. With dark colors and stitched borders Choco will give your site a classy, contemporary feel. It is well-suited for any site but works especia > read more
How is WordPress.com made?
Published on 2011-02-17 11:44:08
One of my favorite shows is How It’s Made. I love seeing how things I use every day are actually created. In that spirit, here at Automattic we’ve thought about sharing more about how we work and think. For starters, here’s a recap > read more
New Theme: Duster
Published on 2011-02-15 15:41:48
I am rather pleased to announce the birth of a new Automattic theme designed and developed by the Theme Team. It goes by the name of Duster and is quite an interesting theme — if I may say so myself. Apart from the custom possibilities you’re > read more
Are you well-versed in comment etiquette?
Published on 2011-02-15 13:16:25
Which comment would you rather receive? “Great post! Check out my blog at someblog.wordpress.com.” or “Well said! I know exactly what you mean about X, and I’m glad that I’m not the only one who thinks so. I would even s > read more
Want more traffic? Publicize now makes it easy
Published on 2011-02-04 14:59:42
We’ve made some big user experience improvements to how the traffic building feature called Publicize works. This feature allows you to connect your WordPress.com blog to your account on social networking services like Twitter and Facebook, b > read more
Want to blog better in 2011? We’re here to help.
Published on 2011-01-21 14:41:13
For those of you who want to take your blog to the next level in 2011 (perhaps you’ve stepped up to the Post a Day or Post a Week challenge), we’ve got your back. From now on, we’ll be offering tips on blogging best practices to hel > read more
New Theme: Beach
Published on 2011-01-18 09:42:56
I love winter and I bet you do too but if you’re like me you probably don’t like the cold very much. You might be wishing you could take a trip to a beach somewhere right about now. Well, if you can’t make it to the beach yourself h > read more