Today we’ve got a treat for you — a new theme called Selecta. This might be the theme you’ve been waiting for if videos or images will be the primary focus of your blog. The design, originally created by Obox Design, fuses the modern with the retro — a bold, striking color palette (in six [...]

Minimum, a stunning execution of “less is more,” is a new premium theme developed by StudioPress and available for your WordPress.com blog today. The Minimum Theme Part of Minimum’s charm is the option for customizing the look of your site. With many layouts to choose from, optional porfolio and featured sections, custom header, and custom [...]

Keeping WordPress.com’s documentation up to date and accessible is one part of what the Happiness Team works on. We’ve long had lots of documentation, but we realized that the design and flow of the support site spoke more to us Happiness Engineers. How backward is that? That all changes today. Before, you saw a long [...]

You already know that you can choose from over 130 awesome themes here at WordPress.com, but did you know that you can create a theme that’s entirely unique to you with the Custom Design upgrade? To see just how powerful Custom Design is, take a look at this diverse collection of sites that are all [...]

We are launching another theme for you which goes by the name of Chunk. It has a straightforward look, with bold typography and a well balanced layout. The theme also offers content variety with post formats. A view of Chunk Chunk was designed by Tran N. It comes with support for an optional custom header, [...]

Today we’re pleased to introduce the latest addition to our themes, Skeptical. Originally released by WooThemes for self-hosted WordPress.org blogs, Skeptical has seen great popularity as a blog theme. Now, it is available on WordPress.com. The Skeptical Theme The WordPress.com version is designed with Post Formats in mind. Skeptical supports nine post formats – standard, [...]

Over on the WordPress.org blog, there’s an interesting story about the growth of WordPress, the software that powers WP.com here, and the ecosystem around it. WP.com is different from every other social platform out there because in addition to giving you ownership of your data you get ownership of the code running your data as [...]

We have two quick announcements about new Stats features. The first one affects everyone with a WordPress.com blog. The second is just for those who have marked their blogs Private. The WordPress.com Admin Bar (visible at the top of your screen if you are logged into WordPress.com) now shows a tiny stats chart called a [...]

Here at WordPress.com we care about making things look good. Automattic, Inc., our parent company, invests heavily in design: every engineering team has a full-time designer. We know making things look and feel great is important  and we love making things people love to use. Over the last few weeks we’ve studied the most popular [...]

We have created a brand new theme meant to carry on the spirit of an old timer with kindness, and we are launching it today. The theme has an air of old-style appeal, semi-academic graciousness with elegant typography, while also offering an overall fresh look with room for customization and the power of the latest [...]