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Stats Wrangling I: Digging into Your Data
Chances are that if you’re running a public facing blog, you’re probably happiest when someone actually reads it. Preferably lots of someones. Your blog’s stats can give you some great ways to get to...
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The Art and Science of Getting Good WordPress Support
Imagine this: it’s been a productive WordPress weekend. You’ve been busy puttering away on the new website you put together for your cat-lovers’ club and you’re pleased with the progress so far. You...
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New Theme: Wire
It’s Theme Thursday! We’re happy to introduce an amazing new theme: Wire. Designed by the talented Justin Carroll, Wire features a wide, one-column layout and comes with support for all post formats....
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Freshly Pressed Friday Faves
Here in North America, it’s late spring and the plants are in a rush — growing visibly each day in a bid to soak up every rain drop and sunbeam before fall forces summer to flee. We feel we should...
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Quick and Easy Customization: Get the Most Out of Widgets
Widgets, the handy features built right into your WordPress.com dashboard, allow you to add cool features to your site so you can make it your online home. Have you poked around in Appearance →...
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New Theme: Profile
It’s my pleasure to introduce you to Profile; the newest addition to our collection of themes. Profile’s Home Page template Profile is the latest premium theme by Organic Themes and is designed to be a...
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The Space Upgrade: Get Extra Storage and Upload Audio
Your blog on WordPress.com comes with 3,000 megabytes (3 GBs) of free space, so you can store all those gorgeous images you upload (and other files) in your Media Library. But if you need extra storage...
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Picking and Choosing: Bloggers as Curators
Your blog is the space where you show the world the things that make you tick. You put together stories and images that entertain and enlighten, and invite your visitors in. It’s your own carefully...
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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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