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Who is Top Author?

Picture this situation: you’re an author on a popular blog that’s published by several users; you’re wondering which author is getting the most views… Well now you can find out. Today we’re introducing a new panel to your sta

New Theme: Pilcrow

If you want a simple and clean blog theme that you can customize to suit your needs I think you’ll like the one we’re introducing today. It’s called Pilcrow. Pilcrow is an upgrade to the older PressRow theme we’ll begin phasing out next week. But Pilcrow

Mobilize Your Blog This Holiday Season

With the holidays appearing thick and fast from now until next year, it’s a great time for meeting up with the people who are important to us, giving and receiving gifts, relaxing and indulging ourselves. But while you’re doing that, give a th

New Features: Linking, Sorting, Paging

Oh my! It’s that time of year again, when the folks over at WordPress.org start putting the finishing touches on the next version of WordPress (in this case, version 3.1), and the lucky users of WordPress.com are automatically included in the beta t

Infinite Theme Styles with Custom CSS

There are 100+ themes to choose from here at WordPress.com, and many of them have customizable backgrounds, menus, content layouts, and headers you can change yourself (like our new default theme Twenty Ten), and we have many more new themes planned. But

Bring Tweets To Your Content

Have you ever wanted to quote or share a tweet but had to painstakingly take screenshots of said tweet, upload them, and then embed the images in your post? Today we are launching a new feature dubbed Twitter Blackbird Pie. The new feature makes displayin

Celebrating 1 Million mobile users: WordPress for Nokia!

It’s been a crazy few years for WordPress’s mobile projects. In 2008 we launched the first version of the WordPress app so you could blog on the go with your shiny first-generation iPhone. Since then, we’ve added other platforms as well, including B

Introducing FoodPress

“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” Those wise words are from celebrity chef Julia Child, who was never shy about following her passions in life. Child was passionate about many things, but es

New Theme: zBench

Today’s new, feature-packed Theme has a really polished design that can give your blog a more technical look—without appearing too cold. I think you’ll really like it. Let’s take a look at zBench. zBench has a lot of great features

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