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Drive More Traffic To Your Site With a “Link In Bio” Social Links Page From your social media channels to your storefront and everything in between, you have a lot of links you want your audience to easily access. WordPress.com is proud to make this possible and take you a step closer to organizing all of…

As we near the end of 2021, it is interesting to note that there are currently over two million podcasts and over 48 million podcast episodes. Those numbers are incredible on their own, but when you realize that just 4 years ago, there were “only” a little more than half a million podcasts, the growth…

New: Free Blogging Course We have released a free course to help aspiring bloggers and content creators develop smart strategies and launch their sites. Mike Bal It’s hard to believe that it’s been a full year since we launched WPCourses.com! In that short time, we’ve been incredibly inspired by the group of ambitious learners we have been…

Introducing the new VideoPress. Still the finest video service for WordPress—now even better. Video is one of the most powerful tools on the web. It can spark ideas, emotions, conversations, sales, and much more. VideoPress already offers people the ability to upload and serve hours of high-quality video flawlessly around the globe, ad-free. But VideoPress…

Behind the Scenes: The Tech Stack of the WordPress.com Growth Summit If you enjoy building sites with WordPress, tinkering around with design and functionality, check out a behind-the-scenes look at how we built our Growth Summit site! Recently, we hosted our second annual WordPress.com Growth Summit and welcomed over 1,300 attendees at the event. The summit…

Celebrating UK Black History Month: Learning Resources, a Read & Watch List, and Content Creation Tools October is Black History Month in the UK. We asked colleagues across WordPress.com for their recommendations for deeper learning and participation this month — and the rest of the year. This year’s UK Black History Month theme, Proud To Be,…

Will We See You Tomorrow at WordCamp US 2021? Let’s meet at WCUS 2021! We’ll be there and we hope to see you there as well! Let’s meet at WCUS 2021! WordPress.com will be there and we hope to see you there as well! Although we’d love to be at an in-real-life WordCamp right now, we’re…

A Successful Blogger on Making the Switch For Kyla Marie Charles, switching to WordPress.com opened up possibilities for her website and brand that she never thought was possible. Donna Cavalier After Kyla Marie Charles grew a successful blog on Blogger for 10 years and made her mark as an influencer, she realized her website was no…

Expanded Button Formatting, New Spacing Controls, and Drag-and-Drop for List View Now in Block Editor This month, our team released features in the block editor that give your site a little breathing room: spacing controls for buttons and paragraphs. And the List View tool keeps getting better with drag-and-drop. Powerful Expanded Button Formatting Buttons never looked…

Meet the Customers We’re Featuring at the WordPress.com Growth Summit We are proud to feature Jessica Petrie of Yoga Next Door, HBCU Gameday, and other inspiring customers at the second Official WordPress.com Growth Summit, on Tuesday, August 17. Last summer, as the world adjusted to pandemic life, Jessica Petrie knew that she had to make changes…