Back in 2010 we introduced the exciting new ability to Like the individual posts you’ve read all around WordPress.com. It’s been one of our most popular features since then, as evidenced by the chart below that goes up-and-to-the-right as an indication of great success and achievement. Today I’m happy to announce a few enhancements to the [...]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012WordPress Theme Releases for 4/25
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012LaunchTime is a coming-soon page theme that you can use as a placeholder while waiting until your site is launched.
Silesia is a clean and elegant HTML5 theme.
SmartBiz is designed for corporate business websites and blogs.
Voyage is a peaceful, na…
WordPress Plugin Releases for 4/23
Monday, April 23rd, 2012New plugins
Donate Ribbon places a black “Donate” ribbon in the upper right corner of your blog with the option to set the link and link title.
Rickroll changes all of your embedded YouTube videos to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna G…
WordPress Theme Releases for 4/21
Saturday, April 21st, 2012Express is a basic, simple theme that would be suitable for any blog or website.
Next Saturday is a bold and playful theme which adds a touch of childlike innocence to your blog.
Typhoon is a simple blue theme.
8 Gorgeous Nature Blogs for Earth Day
Thursday, April 19th, 2012This Sunday, April 22nd will mark the 42nd observance of Earth Day. According to Earth Day Network, “More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.” To inspire you to get in on this year’s celebration, here are eight amazing nature-related blogs [...]
WordPress Plugin Releases for 4/19
Thursday, April 19th, 2012New plugins HTML5 MP3 Player with Playlist allows you to easily use the HTML5 audio element to enable audio playback in most browsers, with playlists. Stop CISPA Ribbon places a black ribbon with the words “Stop CISPA” in the top right corner of your website, linking to the Stop CISPA website. Updated plugins BackWPup allows you to backup your WordPress database, files, and more. FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website. Share Buttons by Lockerz / AddToAny helps people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more. Sharexy is a powerful social sharing, bookmarking, and blog monetization tool. Store Locator allows you to efficiently display and manage your important stores, locations, or other points of interest on your website in a manner that’s easily searchable by visitors.
Add Spotify, Rdio, and GitHub’s Gist Embeds To Your Site
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012We’re happy to announce three new things that you can embed into your site! Spotify Embed music from Spotify by right-clicking any song, album, or artist in Spotify and selecting “Copy HTTP Link” or “Copy Spotify URI”: Then paste that into your post editor, making sure that it’s located on its own line all by [...]
Cart66 Vulnerability Follow-up
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012Cart66 released a new version this morning, addressing the vulnerability I posted about yesterday. A one-day turn-around to address a security issue is excellent (even if the stink from 9 months of inattention hasn’t fully dissipated yet). I’m disappointed I had to resort to a public warning to get action but glad that action was…
How to get more page views for your blog
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012This is a guest post by Kristina Chang, Evan Moore, Tony Xu, and Omer Rabin; students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “What makes a blog popular? What drives page views?” These are the questions that we’ve been trying to answer over the last few weeks. We were on a mission to dig into the [...]
WordPress Theme Releases for 4/17
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012Fanwood is an all-purpose, responsive (mobile friendly) theme with 12 optional layouts, per post layouts, multiple drop down menus, 18 widget areas, and more.
Museum Core is a simple theme/framework with support for post formats, thumbnails, backgrou…
