This month we passed an impressive milestone: 200,000,000 posts have been published on WordPress.com.

Does this number surprise us? Not at all. Because we’ve long known that you — our users — have…

The Taoist concept of “Wu Wei” involves knowing when to act and when not to act. It’s also the name and neat description of the design philosophy behind today’s new one-column theme. Let’s take a…

As some of you noticed, including a number of major media organizations, WordPress.com had some unexpected downtime on Thursday evening. Whether you’re eating delicious BBQ, as I was, watching a…

Our newest theme is Andrea, a gorgeously minimal two-column theme with an unusual blue color scheme.

Though the design may seem simple on the surface, once you try it you…

Based on your feedback, you are loving the Custom Menu feature we launched two weeks ago. It’s natural to want that feature enabled for your favorite theme, too. We’re working on adding it to…

Meet our newest super-clean theme, Enterprise—perfect for bloggers wanting a more corporate look for their blog.

The Enterprise Theme

One of my favorite Enterprise features is the…

We were thrilled to see several WordPress.com blogs — Eat Like a Girl, James Ramsden, Inspector Gadget, and Stilletoed Socialist — make the list of The Times’ article “40 bloggers…

Bueno is a stylish and fun theme featuring a custom header, custom background, and multiple fresh color schemes.

Bueno’s rainbow of alternate color schemes, default…

Vostok is an elegant one-column theme sporting a dark background and light text that is readable and easy on the eyes. The minimal layout is perfect for publishing your personal lifestream in a…

A few years ago, when we began to offer domain mapping—serving a WordPress.com blog on your domain, like example.com—we omitted DNS control because we didn’t count on many people needing it. Soon…