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New Year, New Success with Bloganuary Mindy Postoff In a few short days, you’ll surely be asked: What are your New Year’s resolutions for 2022? If starting a blogging habit is one of them, we’re here to help!  At WordPress.com, we’re trying something new for 2022. Instead of individual New Year’s resolutions, we’ll be focusing on…

Live from New York … It’s State of the Word! Check out some highlights and exciting announcements from Matt Mullenweg’s December 14 State of the Word annual address! Yesterday saw the return to a live State of the Word annual address, broadcast to the world from our new NoHo event space in New York City! Suited…

How to Watch State of the Word 2021 Matt’s SotW address will be followed by a community Q&A. Send questions in advance to ask-matt@wordcamp.org, or join the conversation live! Donna Cavalier Join us tomorrow for State of the Word! This year taking place live from New York City, WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg will…

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…