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…

Posted 1 year ago on June 18 2010
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…

Posted 1 year ago on June 14 2010
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…

Posted 1 year ago on June 9 2010
Our newest theme is Andrea, a gorgeously minimal two-column theme with an unusual blue color scheme.
Click to view slideshow.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…

Posted 1 year ago on May 13 2010

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…

Posted 1 year ago on May 6 2010
Bueno is a stylish and fun theme featuring a custom header, custom background, and multiple fresh color schemes.
Click to view slideshow.Bueno’s rainbow of alternate color schemes, default…

Posted 1 year ago on May 4 2010
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…

Posted 1 year ago on April 1 2010
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…