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Notifications, the Pulse of Your Blog posted on November 7, 2011 - 11:45pm
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 one of your posts, Notifications will tell you who your newest fans are by adding a new note to the stack:
New Mobile Theme: Minileven posted on November 3, 2011 - 2:04am
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: A clean interface, gorgeous post formats and custom headers/background
New Theme: Strange Little Town posted on November 2, 2011 - 2:13am
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 of crooked little houses covered in a blanket of fog. Some dwellings appear to have minds of their own while others defy the laws of gravity!
New Themes: iTheme 2 and Bold News posted on October 18, 2011 - 7:18pm
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 a free theme inspired by the instantly recognizable Apple style design that is perfect for your Mac related tech blog. By activating it, iTheme 2 immediately revamps your blog to a stylish, Apple themed cool blog. What’s great about iTheme 2 is not only the look but also its features. It offers three color schemes and a cool featured posts carousel on the home page. Go find more about the theme on its showcase page.
New Themes: Modern News and Dusk to Dawn posted on October 13, 2011 - 7:45pm
Today, our ever-growing collection of themes grows by not one, but two with the addition of Modern News and Dusk To Dawn. If your blog is news-oriented (or if you’re ripe to start a news blog), then Modern News, a new premium theme from StudioPress, is a great choice. Bright and stylish, Modern News offers six layout options, seven color schemes, a tabbed sidebar, and many more features. Get the full scoop on the Theme Showcase and purchase it as an upgrade for your blog.
Earlier this year we announced our partnership with Major League Baseball to bring their Fan, Modern, and Retro blog themes to WordPress.com. Well, it’s playoff time, and we think there’s no better way to show pride in the Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals (go Cards!), Texas Rangers, or Detroit Tigers than by donning their colors and logo on your WordPress.com blog. It’s like a digital rally cap — no true fan should be caught without one!
3 Ways to Make Your Site More Visually Appealing posted on October 10, 2011 - 9:20pm
You guys use WordPress.com in all sorts of creative ways, documenting the adventures you take… mikeslagter.wordpress.com …the people you meet… paolonovelli.wordpress.com …the characters you create…
Retro Mac Theme posted on October 7, 2011 - 5:01am
It’s impossible to overstate the influence of Steve Jobs on technologists, particularly his passion for beautiful, usable products. We work harder and have higher standards because of the bar set by Apple’s experiences, and I don’t know what WordPress would look like today if not for the inspiration he gave all of us. As the shock at his premature loss has given way to a celebration of his life it’s been amazing to read all of the personal anecdotes of those lucky enough to have known him. Yesterday one of the tributes I noticed was the website Boing Boing switched their theme to one reminiscent of the original Macintosh interface, one of the several times Jobs would make a ding in the universe through his work. It seemed fitting, and we wanted to make it available to all of you, so our theme team worked through the night and here it is:
New Theme: Funki posted on October 6, 2011 - 10:56pm
It’s funky time in theme land and we are welcoming our newest addition, available for you today. Funki is a very versatile premium theme, with an artsy flair, offering customization and flexibility. It begins with four different layouts, from one column to three columns, all based on where you drag your widgets so you don’t have to set any special options, it just works.
November marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a project in which thousands of writers around the world work toward completing a 50,000-word novel by November 30th. Sound like something you want to get in on? Whoa. That’s 1,667 words per day. I’m not ready for that! We hear you — writing a whole novel is a pretty big undertaking. So why not gear up for the project by starting the WordPress.com Post a Day Challenge this October? It’s a great way to meet others in the WordPress.com community, including writers who have completed NaNoWriMo in the past.