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Getting the Most Out of Post Formats: Quoting in Style

Nearly 150 of the themes available to WordPress.com users support post formats, which means that these themes offer a variety of post types (standard, image, gallery, video, audio, quote, and more) that display your content differently based on the format. If your theme supports post formats, you’ll see a Format module as you’re creating or editing a post, […]

Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
April 14, 2014

Introducing the WP Photos App for Firefox OS

WP Photos is a nifty new photoblogging app for Firefox OS that works with your WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress blog. Photo sharing made simple WP Photos is a straightforward, no-nonsense photoblogging app that streamlines your photo sharing experience. Take a picture. Add a title, caption, tags, and a short message. Then, upload it to your […]

Eric
Eric
December 9, 2013

Digging In the Dashboard, Part II: Features for Longform Posts

As we discussed in the first installment of Digging in the Dashboard, WordPress.com has so many great features that it’s tough to be familiar with them all. I’m still discovering new ones myself! Let’s keep the discovery going with three more features that might be new to you. This time, we’ll cover three features that […]

Elizabeth
Elizabeth
September 27, 2013

Digging In the Dashboard: Three Features to Discover

Features abound in the WordPress.com dashboard. When you first got started at WordPress.com, you likely identified a handful of tools that you used every time you posted and then ignored the rest. But after you’ve been blogging for awhile, you might discover some parts of the dashboard you’ve ignored have just the features you need! Here […]

Elizabeth
Elizabeth
August 5, 2013

Improved Menus, Autosave, Revision Tracking, and Post Locking, FTW!

At WordPress.com, we’ve launched a collection of improvements to smooth your editorial workflow, and save you time writing posts and organizing your content. Here’s what’s new: Improved Menus let you organize content more easily. Post Locking prevents accidental changes in a multi-author environment. Revision tracking lets you see who changed what, and revert as necessary. […]

Krista Stevens
Krista Stevens
April 11, 2013

Enhance Your Site with Post Formats

A simple way to add visual variety to your site’s front page is to publish your content using Post Formats. Over 50 of our themes support Post Formats, which means they can display various types of content — including images, videos, quotes, links, audio, and short snippets called “asides” — with different formatting, adding subtle but […]

Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
January 15, 2013

A Faster Way to Publish Posts

The process of publishing new posts just got simplified big time. Starting today, any time you’re logged in to WordPress.com, you can create and publish new posts without leaving the page you’re on. So instead of having to visit your blog’s dashboard each time you want to publish a post, now you can start a […]

Andy P
Andy P
March 1, 2012

Get Instant Feedback When You Publish

For months we’ve been studying how, when and why people publish their posts, and what the common tasks are people perform afterwards. We know many of you immediately want to see what your post looks like, check for typos, and then share your post to social networks. Starting today you’ll see a much improved design […]

Scott Berkun
Scott Berkun
December 12, 2011

Now Publicize to Facebook Pages

Since we launched Publicize for Facebook, which automatically shares a link to new posts to your Facebook account, one of the top requested features has been the ability to Publicize to Facebook Pages. We’ve been listening and working hard, and are happy to announce support for this today. If you already have Publicize active (which […]

Scott Berkun
Scott Berkun
August 8, 2011

It’s 2am, Where Are Your Posts?

Have you ever read one of your old posts and thought something was different? Maybe a few words were changed, the formatting was different, or an entire paragraph was missing. You poured your heart and soul into the post and didn’t know someone changed it after you hit publish. If this sounds familiar, you probably […]

Nick Momrik
Nick Momrik
September 11, 2010