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War and Life Afterwards: An Interview with Brian Castner
Brian Castner We’re honored that Brian Castner , Iraq War veteran and author of The Long Walk , makes his official online home right here at WordPress.com. Brian’s history and work are fascinating, as are the writing and photographs he shares on his blog. We asked Brian a few questions about his background, his book, his blogging philosophy, and his choice of WordPress.com for his site
Customizing Comet: Beau and Arrow Events
Who doesn’t love “Before and After” home improvement shots? It’s always amazing to see how just a couple of changes, like a coat of paint or a quick do-it-yourself project, can transform a living space dramatically. It’s no different when it comes to WordPress.com blog themes, in which a little customization can go a long way
Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
An ode to a father, a story of growing up with two mothers, a request for a cloak of visibility, and a reflection on goodbyes. Here are four Freshly Pressed standouts from this week — all quite personal pieces that have resonated with many readers. Go ahead and dive in: Why I Don’t Diet — An Ode to My Father My father spent his years fighting his size, wishing he was smaller, weaker, less of a giant
New Theme: Snap
Happy Theme Thursday! Sharing and managing your work online should be easy, and today I’m thrilled to announce a new theme from our friends at The Theme Foundry that helps you do just that! Snap is a responsive, lightweight, and minimalist theme that makes it easy to feature your projects. Snap’s clean grid based blog layout and configurable page templates also make it incredibly flexible.
Widget Visibility and You
Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned for control. While we can’t give you more control over most of your life, we can give you more control over your widgets. And today, with the new widget visibility tool, you can configure your widgets to be shown or hidden only on certain pages
Websites for the Greater Good: Non-Profits on WordPress.com
All kinds of organizations make their home on WordPress.com: small businesses,
Five Minutes with Philip Arthur Moore
Every few 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 best it can be. This week, we’re very pleased to introduce you to Mr.
A Special Sunday: A Mix of Mother’s Day Blogs
In some parts around the world, this Sunday is dedicated to the mothers out there. For Mother’s Day, we’ve rounded up sites on motherhood, parenting, and family.
Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
This week’s three selections address some of our favorite topics: reading and writing. If you’re looking for inspiring and thought-provoking posts, you’re in luck.
New Themes: Handmade, Untitled, and On a Whim
Theme Thursday is here, and I’m excited to announce the three fantastic new themes we’ve wrangled for you this week. Handmade Handmade is a beautiful retro-styled blogging theme for foodies and crafters, designed with love by the folks at Obox Themes . Focusing on an amazing attention to detail and gorgeous typography, everything in Handmade has had hours of attention poured into it
Meet a Forum Volunteer: Lorraine Murphy
If you’ve ever had a question about WordPress.com, chances are you’ve visited our Community Support Forums . Forums are a great place to search for solutions and get answers. While our Happiness Engineers help out in these forums, WordPress.com enthusiasts — people who are passionate about WordPress.com and helping fellow users — provide the majority of answers
Customizing Sight: distraction no. 99
Customizing your blog’s theme is one way to show off what makes you you. Young adult novelist Nova Ren Suma does a beautiful job of this at distraction no.
Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
This week’s three posts all explore a similar topic — being comfortable in one’s own body — yet diverge on that theme in markedly different ways. Bikini Body This, friends, is a cultural phenomenon that confounds me.
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New Themes: Newsworthy and Visual
Happy Theme Thursday, all! Today I have two fantastic new themes for you to enjoy. First up is Newsworthy by WP Themes , a brightly-hued theme designed for news, magazine, and personal blogs. Its striking colors are sure to grab your readers’ attention at first glance! Newsworthy supports multiple authors, post formats, widgets, custom colors, and custom headers.
NaPoWriMo 2013: Five Favorites
There are just a few hours left in NaPoWriMo 2013 — that is, National Poetry Writing Month , which asks participants to write a poem every day in April — and hundreds of resident WordPress poets are pressing “Publish” on their final stanzas and sighing with relief and satisfaction. We’ve loved reading all the verse that floated across our Readers this month, whether from brand-new bloggers committed to the 30-day challenge, long-time poets, or non-poet bloggers who were inspired to try something new.
A Story for Generations: Home Front Girl
Imagine this: you have access to the diaries of your mother or father: Windows into your family’s past. Snapshots of moments of history. What would this process be like?
Weekend Reads: WPLongform Picks
Last month Cheri took a look at longform writing on WordPress.com , and how tagging your over–1000-word posts WPLongform can help fellow bloggers, readers, and the editors of Freshly Pressed
New Themes: Flora and Fauna, TheStyle, and Fanwood Light
Greetings and Salutations! Another Thursday has arrived and you know what that means … more themes! The theme machine here at WordPress.com has been cranking out few fresh, new designs that I am happy to present to you. Flora & Fauna Flora & Fauna is a colorful, illustrated premium theme designed by Aline Yamada .
New Theme: Twenty Thirteen
If you’re a WordPress aficionado you’ll know why one of the most eagerly awaited announcements each year is the arrival of a new default theme. Wait no longer, friends.
Customizing Forever: Prada for Breakfast
Think you need to be a graphic designer or buy a bunch of upgrades to make a sweet-looking, custom blog? Think again: Prada for Breakfast
In the Spotlight: Go Green With These Bloggers for Earth Day
Today, we celebrate Earth Day. Perhaps you’re marking the occasion by attending a volunteer clean-up event in your neighborhood, talking with your children about recycling, or choosing to bike to work, all in the name of environmental stewardship. Here in the WordPress community, we’re lucky to have bloggers covering everything from sustainability, to homesteading, to organic gardening and farming, to a whole host of environmental concerns and issues all year long.
In the Spotlight: Go Green With These Bloggers for Earth Day
Today, we celebrate Earth Day. Perhaps you’re marking the occasion by attending a volunteer clean-up event in your neighborhood, talking with your children about recycling, or choosing to bike to work, all in the name of environmental stewardship.
Showcase Your Property with a Hotel Site
If you want to promote your hotel, inn, or bed & breakfast with a stylish and functional website that looks and works great on mobile devices, look no further than WordPress.com/hotels . An online property for your property You’ve worked hard to create a comfortable home-away-from-home for your guests, and now, we can set you up with an online home to help keep your “No Vacancy” light burning brightly.
COLOMBIA ROAD
It’s so exciting being in a new city. There are so many areas to discover and unveil, and I’m sure taking this opportunity to play tourist in this exciting city. Today I headed with gorgeous Emma to the Broadway market and afterwards to Colombia Rd.
Freshly Pressed: Friday Faves
WordPressers, day in and day out, you entertain us, you make us think, you make us laugh, and you make us grateful to be exposed to so many voices all over the world. It’s a pleasure to read what you’re writing. Like everyone in the community, we value that feeling of connection that comes from reading something that speaks to you, that resonates, that makes you feel not so alone.
Preview the Future Design of the WordPress Dashboard
Though nothing stays still for long with WordPress, the design of your blog’s dashboard hasn’t changed much lately. While we’ve added new features and made some adjustments along the way, the dashboard has been looking forward to a refresh for some time.
New Themes: Bon Vivant, SemPress, and BonPress
It’s Threeme Day ! I’m proud to present three new awesome themes! Meet Bon Vivant. Bon Vivant Bon Vivant is a quirky restaurant-oriented theme designed by Denise Chandler .
The WordPress for Android App Gets a Big Facelift
We’re constantly working on updates to our mobile apps to make your WordPress.com experience on the go the best it can be. Today, we’ve jubilantly released version 2.3 of WordPress for Android to Google Play .
Save the Date: WordCamp San Francisco
The dates are set, the call for speakers is open, and the website is up: WordCamp San Francisco returns this July 26-27 (with Contribute Day — formerly known as “Hack Day” — on the 28th)! WordCamp San Francisco was the first-ever WordCamp and is the official, annual WordPress conference. It’s a great place to come meet and learn from WordPress innovators from around the world and features the yearly “State of the Word” talk from WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, which takes a look back at the last year and considers the next phase of WordPress awesomeness. Hone your WordPress skills, get inspired, and make new friends
