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We want you: Automattic is hiring in 2013
Merry band of comrades seeks nice, hard-working, diligent, motivated, fun-loving people to join their mission: to democratize publishing and make WordPress.com the best it can be. Work with us. Last...
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Enhance Your Site with Post Formats
A simple way to add visual variety to your site’s front page is to publish your content using Post Formats. Over 50 of our themes support Post Formats, which means they can display various types of...
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Showcase Your Creativity with a Portfolio Site
Do you shoot photographs or video? Illustrate, paint, or draw? Design things? If you answered “yes” to one or more of the above, WordPress.com is the perfect place to show your stuff. We’ve just...
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A New Responsive Design for 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...
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Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
We were floored this week by the posts we came across on WordPress.com. This community is full of different voices: bold, opinionated, and honest. You take risks and put yourselves out there. You offer...
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Five minutes with 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...
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Personalize Your Site with Custom Fonts
Last month, we shared tips from WordPress.com users who use Custom Colors to spice up their sites. You can also personalize your online home with Custom Fonts, which is another feature of the Custom...
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A Look at Wedding Sites on WordPress.com
We’ve launched themes especially for people planning and documenting their weddings, like the elegant themes Forever and Ever After, and the charming, playful Lovebirds and Blissful Blog themes. Here,...
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New Themes: My Life and Silesia
Today, I’m excited to announce the two latest additions to our ever-growing collection of free themes. My Life My Life is a cool, serene blogging theme by Justin Tadlock. With subtle colors, readable...
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Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
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...
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Customizing Oxygen: Beatroute 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...
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Upgrade Focus: VideoPress For Weddings
WordPress.com is all about making your special day something to remember, and you’ll now find that there are a number of beautiful themes for sharing your wedding with friends, family or the world at...
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Restaurants Whet Your Appetite on WordPress.com
Last year we launched wordpress.com/restaurants, giving restaurants the ability to quickly and easily build a site with menus, maps and directions, an OpenTable reservations widget, and more, along...
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Education Continues Outside the Classroom on WordPress.com
Last month, we attended the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Boston, Massachusetts, and had a great time talking to educators about how WordPress.com encourages in-class conversations...
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Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
This week’s Freshly Pressed posts continued to impress us with the range, depth, and honesty of the material being put out into the world by WordPress.com bloggers. As a community, you’re bold, not...
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Five minutes with Kathryn Presner
Every couple 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...
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A Look at Painters with Portfolios
Recently, Michelle announced the launch of WordPress.com/portfolios. If you take photographs, record music and video, illustrate and paint, or design things, you can build a portfolio here on...
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Get Notifications On the Go With WordPress for iOS
Did you know you can get notifications about new comments, new followers, likes on your posts, and more with the WordPress for iOS app? It’s a super convenient way to keep up with your blog even when...
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Transform Your Site with a Custom Background
Recently, I highlighted blogs and websites displaying custom colors and custom fonts, which you can enable on your own site with a Custom Design upgrade. Today, let’s look at a free way to easily...
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Customizing Bueno: Mi Piace Kate
We all want our blogs and sites to feel like “us,” and there are tons of tweaks that can turn a plain ol’ theme into a bespoke web experience for the discriminating blog connoisseur. Last month, we...
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