Today’s latest theme is as clean and fresh as you’d expect a theme named Linen to be. It’s also an impressively adaptable theme with an array of options that make personalizing it simple and easy. If you’re publishing articles in a magazine, pages for a business site, or your own personal blog, you’ll find Linen’s [...]

We know the hardest part of blogging is actually writing posts. And most blogging software,  and even word processors, do little to help writers write. Today at WordPress.com we’re  proud to announce a new kind of feature, aimed at helping the writing process, called Writing Helper. It’s a new box that appears underneath the edit [...]

We’re always amazed with the way you continually push the scope and depth of your blogs on WordPress.com. It only makes sense that you’d also want themes that can take that work and organize it in easily readable, neat layouts. Like our newest theme addition, Fresh News! For the one time price of $45, Fresh [...]

Example of Mystique’s single page view. I think you’ll agree this theme has a certain mystique to it. This fun, colorful theme is flexible enough to fit any type of site—it’s simply loaded with options. A long-time favorite for self-hosted sites designed by digitalnature, Mystique is now available in your WordPress.com dashboard. What doesn’t this [...]

We love blogging, and we know you do too, but we also have a special interest in making blogging lovely for your readers as well. It’s for that reason that we’ve taken a shine to Post Formats and themes that make good use of them. Themes like today’s new premium theme, Tapestry, available for a [...]

Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed. We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to determine the extent of the information exposed, and re-securing avenues used to gain access. We presume our [...]

Say hello to The Morning After, a classic and popular magazine-style theme that has withstood the test of time. Based on its great success for self-hosted sites we’re excited to bring it to you for the first time on WordPress.com. Example of The Morning After's front page. Introduced in 2007 by Arun Kale, The Morning [...]

With the increase in technology, more and more businesses are using identification systems for their employees to protect both their intellectual and physical assets. A lot more companies are now turning to identification badges to increase their security. Identification IDs help to boost safety in the workplace and get rid of the need for paper [...]

In today’s fast paced work environments, many companies require their employees to have ID badges. To eliminate the need for time sheets and logging computer systems, employees simply scan their ID and all pertinent information is at the fingertips of HR. This also adds an extra layer of security to the workplace. If every employee [...]

Your coworkers are some of the people that you see the most during the week. For eight hours a day, five days a week, you share the company of your fellow employees. If only for that fact alone, it is very important to show them that you value their time and care about them. There [...]