WordPress.com is way more than just a blogging platform — it’s a full-featured Content Management System that powers over 17% of the web. We love seeing the myriad ways people use it to...

For some of us, blogging is personal. Others are trying to educate or entertain; many more are hybrids. Yet we’re all storytellers. Creative Writing Challenges help you to push your writing boundar...

It’s November 1st, and National Blog Posting Month–NaBloPoMo–is upon us. Time to put your thinking cap on, fire up the computer, chug some extra coffee, and get a-postin’! B...

Hey musicians! We just launched WordPress.com/music with two new features to help you rock the web: playlists and upcoming events. We know that you need specific features to create a killer experie...

We know many of you document and share your experiences with Instagram, so we’re excited to announce that you can now embed images from Instagram on your blog. As with other embeds, it’...

Another Thursday, another theme day! Today, I have the pleasure of introducing you to our two newest themes: Something Fishy and Blissful Blog! From the depths of the creative mind of our very own,...

When we send a post into the blogosphere, we want to make sure our best feet are forward. That means making sure errors like typos or poor grammar don’t detract from what we have to say; it’s one o...

Foreign. While foreign (rightly so) often brings up images of things outside of your own nation, it can also apply to things outside of or different from your normal environment, or even something ...

This week the next installment of the James Bond movies, Skyfall, will debut. The official James Bond site, 007.com, is on WordPress and is full [...]

Fall is the season for changes and we’re in the spirit on WordPress.com! We’ve been working hard on some changes to the Publicize feature that we are happy to share with you today. Publ...

We have a beautiful addition to the WordPress.com themes collection for you today! Designed by La&La, Runo Lite is a minimalist theme with a focus on writing. Offering multiple sidebar configur...

Canadian web and social media consultant Eric Robillard is better known in the blogosphere as “Le Clown,” the brash but big-hearted personality behind the popular blog A Clown on Fire. ...