It’s the New Year, and we’re excited to kick it off with a new free theme! Canapé Canapé is a bold and refined theme, designed to help you create a beautiful online presence for your restaurant. Integrated with food menus, testimonials, and the Open Table widget, it’s the perfect choice for any food-related business. Canapé can be personalized to match ...
Our Black Friday special is a great way to get your blog ready for the new year. This weekend, every purchase of WordPress.com Premium will include a free year of unlimited access to all our premium themes — a $120 USD value — so you can use any theme at no extra cost. The special sale starts just after midnight on Friday, November ...
The Stats on WordPress.com are a special favorite of many site owners — it’s our second-most visited screen. At a glance, you can see when you get the most traffic, which posts are making the biggest impact, who your most frequent commenters are, and more. It’s a great way to gain insights into your visitors and your site. To complement our ...
We’ve been updating WordPress.com to make it faster and more powerful behind the scenes. We’ve now introduced some changes to the WordPress.com interface as well, making website, blog, and content creation more intuitive and consistent across devices. Here’s a roundup of some of the enhanced functionality that you’ll see in WordPress.com starting today, with more updates coming next week — stay ...
In the past, we’ve highlighted some of our favorite themes for longform enthusiasts and bloggers who just want to write. Today, let’s take a look at five free themes, launched in the past several months, that offer a distraction-free writing and reading experience. Radcliffe Radcliffe combines bold typography with a clutter-free post layout, as shown above. Ideal for longform writing, ...
It is with great excitement that I announce the opening of ticket sales for the Press Publish conference series we teased here earlier this month! After scouring the web for bloggers with inspiring stories, successful blogs, and unique voices, we’ve confirmed the speaker lineups, and are thrilled to be including popular WordPress.com bloggers like Katherine Fritz, Jerry Mahoney, Emily Austin, and Russ Crandall. Here’s our ...
It’s Theme Thursday and today I’m happy to present two new free themes: Cubic and Wilson. Cubic Designed by WordPress.com’s own Thomas Guillot, Cubic is a clean, simple, and responsive theme. With its single-column, grid-based design crafted around large featured images, Cubic is the perfect fit for photobloggers. Read more about Cubic in the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your ...
In 2014, we discovered how much WordPress.com bloggers want to connect with each other and do more with their blogs — tens of thousands of you have participated in Blogging U since it began a year ago! This year, we’re starting an in-person event series called Press Publish for people who want to take their blogs even further, starting with two ...
We’re celebrating the New Year with two free themes: Boardwalk and Sela. Boardwalk Designed by yours truly, Boardwalk is a clean, simple, and responsive theme. Powered with horizontal scrolling and built around large featured images, Boardwalk is the perfect choice for photobloggers and those of you looking for an unconventional — yet elegant and creative — theme. Learn more about Boardwalk at the ...
Millions of new sites created and posts published later, 2014 is in the books. We could regale you with big numbers, like these… Total New Blogs 18,300,771 That’s 49,997 new blogs per day! Total Posts 555,782,547 Or more than 1.5 million per day — not too shabby. 47 million were published from mobile devices, because you’re on the go. Bytes of Data per Hour ...
Our default theme this year, Twenty Fifteen, draws visitors’ eyes to what matters most — the text and images you publish on your site. Crisp typography, generous spacing, streamlined navigation: Twenty Fifteen shows that less can indeed be more (and that it can look great on any device). Keeping things simple and streamlined doesn’t mean you can’t make a theme your own, of course. From ...
To be honest, given my rather hit and miss IPL predictions, I wasn’t going to bother previewing the upcoming Champions Trophy, but as the tournament draws closer, I feel myself looking more and more into the other team’s camps to see how they are doing and what sort of form or preparation they are taking into the tournament. I’ve already ...
Here’s an incredible fact: together, you published more than 660 million posts on WordPress.com in 2015, and made more than 655 million comments. That’s a whole lot of joy, laughter, tears, insight, and thoughtfulness. And it’s just one part of a huge global community of people — WordPress now powers more than 25% of the internet — with interests ranging from the news shaping our world ...
It has been a while since I did a piece on Sri Lankan Cricket. Given the lack of cricket and the end of the SL Premier First-Class league (which was won by the Sinhalese Sports Club) one would assume that there would be little to talk about. But the corridors of power at SLC are rarely quiet. The past ...
Having been gorging myself on Twenty20 cricket during IPL 6, one thing you don’t usually see that much in the shortest format is the ‘leave’. In all other forms of the game it is a very underrated part of a batsman’s repertoire and is as legitimate a stroke or a shot as the cover drive or the slog sweep. This ...
After all that I said about the Indian Premier League in my last post, you could be forgiven for thinking that I wouldn’t touch the tournament with a barge-pole. But the sad truth is the IPL presents my only opportunity to watch live cricket on television for as long as it remains on ITV4. Also, unless I am back in ...
The IPL is just over a week away now, and the usual gaudy shenanigans are around the corner. So to celebrate, Cricinfo are apparently doing a Fantasy League Tournament for it (link). For copyright purposes they are calling it the ‘Indian T20 League’. I do not recall if they did one for IPL 2012, but they have for this edition. ...
Due to the lack of international cricket in the first part of the calendar year for Sri Lanka, the national side would have been going into the ICC Champions Trophy woefully under-prepared. Around about the time that the preliminary squad was made public, the board also made the announcement that there would be a warm-up 50-over tournament for the Champions ...
The last few weeks of the year are the perfect time to look back and reflect on our most memorable work, so we asked a few bloggers to tell us about one blog post they put together in 2015 that they especially liked. Here are their responses. Myfanwy, myf draws apparently Favorite post: “How I experienced the life of a ...
