Everywhere you look people are wearing lanyards, badge clips, ID badge holders, iPods, eye glasses, whistles, and whatever else can be hung around the neck for accessibility and convenience. Lanyards come in all different types, including: ribbon, beaded lanyards (the variety of beads can blow your mind), breakaway lanyards, lanyards with ID badge clips, lanyards [...]

Last November we launched Twitter Blackbird Pie, a quick and easy way to reproduce beautiful,  full-fledged tweets — not just static screenshots of tweets — in your posts, pages, and even comments. Today we are happy to announce that we’ve made it even easier for you to interact with tweets on WordPress.com.  Thanks to the [...]

Reminiscent of primordial grid designs used in different print mediums, Basic Maths is one of the most elegant, and smartly-designed themes we’ve ever seen. We are thrilled to have it now available for WordPress.com sites as a Premium Theme. One particular thing of note about Basic Maths, is that it comes with custom support direct from us, the [...]

As Scott mentioned in his How is WordPress.com Made? post, at Automattic we work from all over the world, and we use internal blogs for socializing and exchanging non-work ideas in addition to making WordPress.com and our other products more awesome. One of the things we’re really concerned about is staying healthy – we even have [...]

There are billions of people on the planet who are afflicted by chronic diseases, cancer, debilitating conditions, degenerative diseases, and unfortunate accidents that cause severe and lasting trauma. Those…

It is time to introduce a new free theme which goes by the appropriately evocative name of Rusty Grunge. It goes without saying, this theme has all the rusty and grungy elements needed to appeal to all those who embrace grunginess in themes. It has a light content area over a dark background, and some [...]

With the launch of Apple’s iPad we have seen the future of computing and it is touch. Nothing matches the visceral feel of navigating your digital world with your hands. The past four months we’ve been working closely with Onswipe to bring your iPad visitors our vision of what a blog can look like re-imagined for a [...]

With the increase in technical innovations, more and more people are returning to school in order to keep up with the new technology, knowledge, skills, and general flow of the world. Many people who’ve been working the same job for years find that their jobs are in danger because someone younger with more up-to-date career [...]

Getting an education has become a time of decision making that has a lot of high school seniors anxious and ready to head for the hills