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10/18/11--09:18: New Themes: iTheme 2 and Bold News (chan 1182206)

If you are doing a great job on your blog and posting regularly, sometimes important posts fade away from the home page. Sound familiar? Today, we’re excited about introducing two new themes that come with a featured section for prominently displaying some of these posts. The first theme is iTheme 2 designed by Themify, is [...]


iamtakashi

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11/01/11--16:13: New Theme: Strange Little Town (chan 1182206)

Introduce a hint of wonderment into your blog with our latest free theme! This is your invitation to take an enchanting voyage to a Strange Little Town. Our latest release is designed to transport your readers to a magical place where imagination fills the air. Nestled below a star-studded sky you will find a cluster [...]


michaelfields

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11/02/11--16:04: New Mobile Theme: Minileven (chan 1182206)

There’s a good chance that visitors to your site these days will be using a smartphone. We feel it’s important to provide them with a great reading experience while on the small screen, so today we’re announcing a new mobile theme: ‘Minileven’. Minileven is based on the popular and beautiful theme Twenty Eleven, with a [...]


danroundhill

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11/07/11--12:45: Notifications, the Pulse of Your Blog (chan 1182206)

Your blog lives and breathes. Today we’re launching a new way for you to check its pulse. It’s called Notifications, and it lives in the right corner of your Toolbar (Admin Bar), which appears at the top of your screen while you’re logged in to WordPress.com. Whenever another WordPress.com user follows your blog, or likes [...]


Martin

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11/08/11--15:52: Your Memories Take Center Stage with the New Photo Carousel (chan 1182206)

Photo galleries on WordPress.com are a great way to share the pictures you’ve taken with your friends, family, and your followers. But the design of your theme can limit how large your high-resolution photos are displayed. Today, we’re announcing a great new way to make the most of your photos: a full-size carousel view that [...]


Administrator

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11/10/11--08:10: New Themes: Photography, Brand New Day, and Bouquet (chan 1182206)

I’m happy to announce that we’ve added another group of three new themes to our collection today. Each one has its own distinct personality but they do share one thing in common: they’re all awesome themes that I know you’ll love. Let’s check them out. The first up is Photography, a premium theme designed by [...]


Ian

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11/11/11--09:23: WordPress.com Blogger Scores Book Deal for “You Are Not So Smart” (chan 1182206)

According to David McRaney, “You may think that you’re a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is. But you’re as deluded as the rest of us, and that’s OK, because it keeps you sane.” David is a journalist and the creator of the WordPress.com blog You Are Not So Smart, which [...]


ericarenaejohnson

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11/15/11--05:30: Easier Invitations Mean More Followers and Blog Contributors (chan 1182206)

We’ve made two big changes that make it easier to encourage friends, family, and colleagues to interact with your WordPress.com blog. First, now you can invite people to follow your blog. If your blog is public, anyone can use the Follow button to sign up to receive an update each time you publish new content. [...]


danielbachhuber

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11/16/11--16:25: Drag & Drop Media Uploader & Flyout Dashboard Menus (chan 1182206)

We’re excited to share some new features that will make it even faster to create content on your WordPress.com site. Drag & Drop Uploads The media uploader now supports drag and drop! You’ll be able to use the new drag and drop media uploader wherever you need to upload your media files – while writing [...]


Sara

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11/17/11--09:11: New Themes: Anthem and Luscious (chan 1182206)

I’m happy to announce that we have added two great new premium themes to our ever-expanding Theme Showcase! First up is Anthem – a responsive, minimal design from The Theme Foundry. Anthem is perfect for artists, designers, and photographers who want their images to take center stage. Choose from seven different post formats to give [...]


michaelfields

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11/21/11--11:12: More Custom Headers, Color Schemes, & Theme Improvements (chan 1182206)

We want everyone on WordPress.com to be able to find the best theme possible for their blog. Something beautiful, amazing, and cool. A theme that makes you want to jump up, run your laptop next door, and show your neighbor your awesome blog. That’s why we love bringing you so many new themes, why we [...]


Ian

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11/22/11--13:42: Google Knols Move to WordPress: The Annotum Platform (chan 1182206)

Today, we’d like to give a warm welcome to Google Knol users who are migrating to WordPress.com. Begun in 2007, the Google Knol project has provided people in many fields with a place to share their knowledge and expertise with the world using a platform designed for scholarly authoring and publishing. Starting today, those same [...]


markel

11/23/11--16:02: Code is Poetry, CSS is Art (chan 1182206)

We want to help your websites come alive with beautiful design. The WordPress.com theme team has been adding new themes at a dazzling rate, but did you know you can customize the style of any of our themes using the Custom Design upgrade? CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets which are styles that define how [...]


designsimply

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11/24/11--07:36: New Themes: Shaan and Adventure Journal (chan 1182206)

I’m happy to introduce two new cool and colorful themes: Shaan and Adventure Journal. Shaan is a smooth-talking theme, quietly delivering a cool, casual backdrop for your content. It’s perfect for writers who like a calm, quiet tone to their blog. If you use images to illustrate your writing, you’ll like how Shaan displays featured [...]


lance

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11/25/11--02:00: Black Friday Sale: Free Custom Design with Any Premium Theme (chan 1182206)

It’s that time of the year again, and we decided to take care of all our users whether they feel like lining up in the cold to take advantage of today’s bargains or not. This year’s offer is about two upgrades that first saw the light of day during the past twelve months: Custom Design [...]


Paolo B.

11/28/11--16:52: Introducing WordAds (chan 1182206)

Over the years one of the most frequent requests on WordPress.com has been to allow bloggers to earn money from their blog through ads. We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn’t terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google’s AdSense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad. You pour a lot [...]


jonburke

12/01/11--14:49: It’s getting cold in here (chan 1182206)

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but this blog is sooo delightful Until the internet gets slow, Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! That’s right, it’s that special time of year where you can show off your holiday cheer with a little special blog flair — falling snow. To get it started: [...]


Matt Mullenweg

12/05/11--08:42: WordPress.com Bloggers Who Covered the Biggest News Stories of 2011 (chan 1182206)

As 2011 comes to end, we thought it’d be interesting to look back at the events that made headlines this year, and a few of the bloggers who were there in person (or closely connected to the events) to document history in the making. Here’s a recap of some of the biggest news stories of [...]


ericarenaejohnson

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12/06/11--08:32: New Themes: AutoFocus, Imbalance 2, and Reddle (chan 1182206)

Today we are absolutely thrilled to warm your creative hearts with the announcement of three new themes: AutoFocus, Imbalance 2, and Reddle. AutoFocus is an elegant, minimal theme designed for artists, photographers, and other creatives seeking a simple but beautiful way to showcase their talents online. Designed by Allan Cole, this oft-requested theme simultaneously boasts [...]


philiparthurmoore

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12/08/11--10:00: The Long and Short of It (chan 1182206)

Would you like some more Twitter in your WordPress? We got ya. As an update to our ever-popular Tweet embedding functionality we’re supporting Twitter’s new embed API to enable richer, better looking, and more functional Tweets inside your blog posts. To embed a Tweet just put a permalink to it on its own line or use [...]


Matt Mullenweg

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