The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Check out the latest themes in our library, including great options for small businesses, entrepreneurs in the coaching space, and a number of other beautiful and versatile designs. All WordPress.com Themes Bookix Your literary haven, on the web. This partner theme was designed with ...
If one of your 2024 goals is to take your career to the next level, it’s worth taking a hard look at your resume. In a world where bots are scanning resumes for keywords, doing something unique—like creating a website just for your resume—is perhaps risky, but can help you stand out from the pack. And even if you aren’t ...
With just one week left in 2023, time’s running out to lock in a 25% savings on making those New Year’s resolutions happen for your site in 2024. If you saw our last announcement, you’ll know that we’re offering 25% off all annual paid plans until the end of year. So now’s the time—as soon as the clock strikes midnight ...
The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Check out the latest themes in our library, including new release Twenty Twenty-Four, as well as a number of other beautiful and versatile designs. All WordPress.com Themes Twenty Twenty-Four Twenty Twenty-Four (aka TT4), WordPress’s brand new default theme, is now available! TT4 is designed ...
In September, our team celebrated 200 WordPress.com websites built with Out in Tech, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating career and networking opportunities for LGBTQ+ folks in the tech industry. Since 2017, Automattic and WordPress.com have been proud partners of Out in Tech. Through our partnership, we work together with volunteers to build essential websites for LGBTQ+ organization across ...
Are you building a website for the first time? Returning to WordPress after a break? Just looking to get caught up on the newest Gutenberg features? You’re in the right place. We’re excited to announce a brand new free course called Create Your Site. If you’re searching for a solid foundation for making a WordPress.com website, look no further. This ...
Here’s a peek at the latest changes in the block editor — subtle-yet-practical enhancements that help you create beautiful posts and pages more efficiently: New page layout picker experience.Convert text and images into Columns block.Improved spacing options for social links and buttons.Streamlined behavior of the writing prompt. Let’s dive in! New Page Layout Picker Page layouts are pre-designed templates that ...
If you use Ulysses for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, you already know that this Apple Design Award-winning writing app offers a focused, pleasant writing experience. You might also know that Ulysses publishes to WordPress with just a few clicks or taps. If so, you’ll be happy to hear that the newest version improves the already-smooth integration between WordPress and Ulysses. ...
You may already know that WordPress mobile apps are the easiest way to manage your WordPress site any time, anywhere. Helpful features in the apps include our Stats widgets, which make it simple to keep an eye on your site’s activity without even opening the app. We recently rebuilt our widgets for iOS 14, and we’re happy to announce that ...
Knowing what’s going on behind the scenes of your site is key to engagement and security. Who published a post? What comments need to be approved? When was a plugin activated or deactivated? What images were added to a specific page? Now, there’s a new tab in WordPress.com where you can see all your site’s activity outlined in an organized, ...
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The early bird catches the worm, as the saying goes. Parents, teachers and society at large use this hypothesis to get generations of children to wake up on time. Nobody mentions the poor worm, who gets up even earlier and gets his butt handed to him by said bird. If there’s a lesson in this (other than that worms should ...
My mom and I had an argument. This in itself is nothing special, for mothers by default generate arguments every n number of days. This, like most others, evolved far past the original topic and went onto each other’s faults and vices and soon there was a bit of personal jabbing. But after it happened, I realized we had basically ...
Picture a dark alley. Then picture something smaller, but with the same atmosphere, for it would be an exaggeration to call this this place an alley. On one side is a town’s largest junction. Three roads meet and dissolve into one another with snakelike ease. The sides are lined by the fruits of Sri Lankan small enterprise: bookshops, fish ...
That I have two blogs. One is 4250. It’s doing a decent job of pushing out my international and gaming-related content. Seriously. But I also happen to have this much more personal blog just lying here. And there’s always content that belongs here rather than on 4250, which was initially built to showcase my games. So *cough* *get the life support, Watson!*
Leave me out with the waste This is not what I do It’s the wrong kind of place To be thinking of you It’s the wrong time For somebody new It’s a small crime And I’ve got no excuse Is that alright? Give my gun away when it’s loaded Is that alright? If you don’t shoot it how am I ...
Aaaaaaaaah, the sun. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh, that horribly bright shining hot thing hanging in the sky. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh, how you burn us. How you shine benevolently over our little Earth, giving Antarctican seals something to look at while simultaneously burning the hapless Sri Lankans to a crisp. Aaaaah. You make us sweat. Your turn fair skins dark and dark skins purple. Rich people ...
I’m currently getting over what was a serious relationship, so this week I’ve been distracting myself by checking out chicks in sarees. Montessori teachers FTW: Honestly, our traditional, historical, stiff and formal national dress, in the hands of these ladies, is transformed into an undeniably sexy outfit. Want arms? No problem: no sleeves. Prefer bra-less women? We’ve got that covered, ...
I’m currently getting over what was a serious relationship, so this week I’ve been distracting myself by checking out chicks in sarees. Montessori teachers FTW: Honestly, our traditional, historical, stiff and formal national dress, in the hands of these ladies, is transformed into an undeniably sexy outfit. Want arms? No problem: no sleeves. Prefer bra-less women? We’ve got that covered, ...
DRINK IT Good morning. It’s Friday the fourteenth. Yet another good morning turned to shit by just a few minutes of Skype. Warning, brethren (and sistren). Resist the impulse to login to Skype early in the morning. Avoid people like the plague, particularly ones who claim to love you, until you’re awake and have a decent amount of coffee in ...
