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• Websites for the Greater Good: Non-Profits on WordPress.com
  on May 14, 2013 in Community 501(c)3 charity non-profit nonprofit
  All kinds of organizations make their home on WordPress.com: small businesses, municipalities, religious organizations, schools, community groups. We also provide an online HQ for quite a few non-profits, from the global to the hyperlocal. They turn...
• Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
  on May 10, 2013 in Freshly Pressed Inspiration reading writing
  This week’s three selections address some of our favorite topics: reading and writing. If you’re looking for inspiring and thought-provoking posts, you’re in luck. From the hunger that develops when a reader can’t find the tim...
• Customizing Sight: distraction no. 99
  on May 6, 2013 in Customization Design Themes backgrounds headers upgrades Widgets
  Customizing your blog’s theme is one way to show off what makes you you. Young adult novelist Nova Ren Suma does a beautiful job of this at distraction no. 99, using both free and premium options to make Sight her own. (Once inspired, you can g...
• New Themes: Bon Vivant, SemPress, and BonPress
  on Apr 18, 2013 in Themes
  It’s Threeme Day! I’m proud to present three new awesome themes! Meet Bon Vivant. Bon Vivant is a quirky restaurant-oriented theme designed by Denise Chandler. With a unique custom header information area, food menus support, Open Table regis...
• New Theme: Truly Minimal
  on Apr 11, 2013 in Themes
  Happy Theme Thursday! It’s spring in some parts of the world, which for many means tidying and redecorating their homes. Today we have a new free theme to help you do the same for your blog! Truly Minimal, designed by FlareThemes, lives up to i...
• Five Minutes with Sara Rosso
  on Apr 8, 2013 in behind the scenes Hiring Daily Post food blogging Italy Nutella photo blogging travel Weekly Photo Challenge wordpress.com vip World Nutella Day
  Every few weeks, we’re sitting down with an Automattician to help you get to know the people who work behind the scenes to build new features, keep Automattic running, and make WordPress.com the best it can be. This week, we’re very pleas...
• Greater Security with Two Step Authentication
  on Apr 5, 2013 in New Features Security WordPress.com security Two Step Authentication
  We know your blog is important to you, and today we’re proud to announce Two Step Authentication: a new feature to help you keep your WordPress.com account secure. For those of you who use Two Step Authentication with your Google account, you&#...
• Hit It Out of the Park with MLB Themes
  on Apr 4, 2013 in Community Themes baseball Fan Major League Baseball MLB Modern Retro
  You know what I love? The sound of the first pitch on Opening Day. As a huge baseball fan, I’m thrilled about the start of the season, and as a WordPresser, I love the Major League Baseball themes — Fan, Modern, and Retro — that yo...
• Congrats to all the 2013 Bloggie Finalists and Winners!
  on Apr 3, 2013 in Community Congrats WordPress.com awards Bloggies
  The 2013 Bloggie winners were announced on March 24, and we were excited to see eleven WordPress.com bloggers among the finalists and winners. Now in its 13th year, the Bloggie awards accept blog nominations for everything from Best Craft Weblog to B...
• New Themes: Little Story, Scrollider Express, and Pachyderm
  on Mar 21, 2013 in Themes
  Howdy all! We have a bunch of awesome new themes for you today, so let’s dive right in. First up is Little Story, a premium theme with design elements and inspiration from the talented Laura Amiss. Little Story supports several post formats in...
• A Look at Longform on WordPress.com
  on Mar 20, 2013 in Community Themes longform longreads wplongform
  We dive daily into the Reader of WordPress.com just as many of you do, sifting through the latest posts like we’re foraging in a vast forest. One of the things we love about this community is the diversity: from brave pieces of memoir to polit...
• Host a WordCamp in Your Living Room with WordPress.tv
  on Mar 19, 2013 in Better Blogging Community Resources WordCamp tutorials Video WordPress
  Do you find yourself looking for more resources on making the most of your WordPress.com blog? Maybe you’ve always thought about going to a WordCamp, but don’t have one in your area (have you checked?) or are worried that the topics will...
• Blogger Profile: Poet and Author Kellie Elmore
  on Mar 18, 2013 in Community Profile Themes author blogger profile interview Jagged Little Pieces Kellie Elmore poet sight
  We’re thrilled that American poet and author Kellie Elmore has made WordPress.com her home on the web. A Southerner at heart, Kellie grew up in a small town and is inspired by love and loss, nature, and “the humble surroundings of her bac...
• Introducing the New Learn.WordPress.com
  on Mar 14, 2013 in Better Blogging HowTo Resources WordPress.com guide how to Learn tutorial
  New to WordPress.com and don’t know where to start? Looking for just the right theme, or wondering how to use all the features in your dashboard? Interested in creating a website, not a blog? Or perhaps you’re ready to do more on your sit...
• Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
  on Mar 1, 2013 in Freshly Pressed adventure having sex inclusiveness irreverence making love man vs. himself man vs. nature meditation religion
  This week in the Reader, we cheered on a man versus nature and versus himself, we revelled in a meditation on the sensuousness of hand-written vs. typed composition, and we laughed out loud at a hilarious transcript of a discussion topic that’s...
• Customizing Oxygen: BeatRoute Magazine
  on Jan 28, 2013 in Customization HowTo Themes Magazine
  Earlier this month, during Responsive Theme week, Cheri highlighted BeatRoute, a Canadian alt-monthly focusing on local music. We (and you) were impressed by how BeatRoute made the free Oxygen theme their own, so we thought we’d dig a little d...
• Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
  on Jan 25, 2013 in Better Blogging Community Freshly Pressed Reading longreads reflection
  Within Automattic’s Editorial team, we feel pretty lucky — we get to spend a fair amount of time each week reading your posts, in a constant bid to find strong, original writing and photography and share it with the WordPress.com communit...
• Five minutes with Tim Moore
  on Jan 21, 2013 in Automattic behind the scenes Hiring coders coding father husband Tim Moore
  Welcome to a new feature on WordPress.com News. Every couple weeks, we’ll sit down with an Automattician to help you get to know the people who work behind the scenes to build new features, keep Automattic’s wheels turning, and make WordP...
• A New Responsive Design for WordPress.com
  on Jan 17, 2013 in Dashboard Features Freshly Pressed Photos enhancements images improvements reader Video WordPress.com
  Last week we started to roll out some visual changes to WordPress.com and the WordPress.com Reader. We’ve been working hard on improvements in two key areas; making WordPress.com an amazing responsive experience on your mobile device and makin...
• WordPress.com: Our Labor of Love — 2012 in Review
  on Jan 2, 2013 in Better Blogging Features Import Themes Verticals Love upgrades
  For us, WordPress.com is our labor of love — we’re continually releasing new themes, upgrades, and features to help you create the best website and/or blog you can. In addition to great tools, we publish articles, prompts, and writing and...

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