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Vagabond, a Fun New Travel Theme
Happy 4th of July and Theme Day! To all who are celebrating Independence Day, may you have a fun and safe holiday. During any holiday, many of us hit the road to visit family and friends, so it’s a...
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Fueling the Wanderlust: A Look at Travel Blogs on WordPress.com
Photo by Satori Photography We hope Vagabond, the travel theme launched yesterday, inspires the nomad in you. To fuel the wanderlust even more, get blissfully lost in the words and images on the blogs...
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A Blog-to-Book Success: Catching Up with WordPresser-Turned-Bestseller Jared...
Last November, we chatted with New Zealand blogger Jared Gulian, who snagged a publishing contact for a book based on his WordPress.com blog, Moon Over Martinborough. His book of the same name,...
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Customizing Imbalance 2: The Patterned Plate
Imbalance 2 is a clean, modern, grid-based theme great for blogs, portfolios, and magazine-style sites — and one that easily transforms into a cheerful, mouthwatering food blog. Carrie of The Patterned...
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Come Together: A Guide for Group Blogs
Many of the blogs and websites we discover are fertile ground for a mix of voices and perspectives, and for some of you, blogging is a collaborative effort. On WordPress.com, you’ll stumble upon...
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Introducing Panel, a New Theme for Webcomics
Calling all cartoonists! We’re excited to debut Panel, a new theme for quickly and easily publishing serial webcomics. Whether you’re sketching up physics humor or mulling on the ironic nature of the...
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Weekend Reads: WPLongform Picks
For people who love language and the strange, wonderful things it can do, few things are more pleasurable than diving into a well-crafted piece of writing. Since the introduction of the WPLongform tag...
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Stats Wrangling II: Days, Weeks, and Months
If you’re like us — and I think you are — you can’t help but check your blog’s stats a few times each day to see how many someones have caught your latest composition, be it a post, poem, video,...
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Display Your Vine Videos on WordPress.com
You know all those Vine masterpieces you’ve recorded with your mobile phone — six seconds of time, looping over and over, immortalized on your little screen? Now, you can embed these videos on your...
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Domains 101: Mapping It Out
A few weeks ago, we whetted your palate with Domains 101: An Introduction to Custom Domains, an introductory post about custom domains. This week, we’re going to delve deeper into the details of domain...
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New Themes: Inspiration Laboratory, Nexus, and Fiore
Happy Threeme Thursday! Today, we have three exciting new themes to offer you. Two premium themes, Inspiration Laboratory and Nexus, are perfect for showcasing your creativity, while a new free theme,...
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The 2013 WordPress.com Survey: We Welcome Your Feedback!
WordPress.com users, designers, and developers: we want your feedback! Here at WordPress.com, we enjoy working each day to bring you new features and improvements to make your sites and online...
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Get the Most Out of Widgets: Building and Showcasing Your Community
Last month, we highlighted some widgets and hope you’ve since activated them! Today, let’s continue our widgets tour and focus on several that put the spotlight on the readership you’ve built. Your...
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WordPress.com Users Can Now Register .CO Domain Names
We’re excited to announce the addition of .CO as a new top-level domain on WordPress.com. If you’re interested in buying a custom domain name for a new or existing site, you can now choose and register...
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Be Part of the Official Annual WordPress Conference from Anywhere in the World!
WordCamp San Francisco is three days away. Think you’re out of luck because you’re nowhere near California, or didn’t buy a ticket before they sold out? Think again! Join the live stream, and attend...
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Five Minutes with Dave Martin
Every once in a while, we get to sit down with an Automattician to help you get to know the people who work behind the scenes here. These are the people who build new features, keep Automattic running,...
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New Theme: Magnate Express
Magnate Express: Narrow View What better way to celebrate the excitement of WordCamp San Francisco this week than with a premium theme launch! Our latest, from WooThemes, is called Magnate Express, a...
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Blogger Profile: Ex-Expat Author Jack Scott
For insight on expat life mixed with a generous dose of British wit, few bloggers can match Jack Scott, the author whose blog, Perking the Pansies, led to a publishing contract and a busy writing...
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Publish, Promote, Repeat: Dashboard Tools to Share Your Stuff with the World
You’ve worked hard all day drafting a post, then click Publish to send it out into the world. Then, you crash for the night. You’ve earned it, right? You wake up in the morning, excited to look in...
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One Theme, Three Ways: Customizing iTheme2
iTheme2 was originally conceived as a tech blog theme, paying homage to the sleek design of Apple websites. The three blogs we showcase here are proof of its remarkable versatility: not one of them...
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