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The WordPress.com Blog

.blog Domains Are Now Available to Everyone!

Millions of new, easy to remember .blog domains are available for your blog, for the first time ever.

Tips from a Web Designer: On Widgets, Themes, and Essential Tools

Matt Sweeny, a blogger and web and marketing designer in Wisconsin, builds his clients’ websites on WordPress.com.

Applications Open for Early ‘Landrush’ .blog Domains from Nov. 2-9

For a limited time you’ll have the chance to claim your .blog name before everyone else.

Field Notes: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

Automattic heads to Houston, Texas — along with 15,000 other people — to talk women in tech.

Express Yourself with New WordPress Stickers for iOS and iMessage

The newest version of iOS for iPhone and iPad includes the ability to send stickers to your friends with the iMessage apps — and now you can share your love of WordPress with them, too!

A Faster Mobile Web: WordPress.com Updates for Accelerated Mobile Pages

Google has brought the ultra-fast AMP pages to its search results — and WordPress.com users will be ready.

Registering to Vote in the 2016 US Election Just Got Easier

Encourage visitors to your site to make their voices heard with the new HelloVote voter-registration tool.

Attract More Visitors to Your Business Site with our Advanced SEO Tools

Today we are adding a new feature to our WordPress.com Business Plan that will make it easier for visitors to discover your site. Our new Advanced SEO tools will help you optimize your site for search engines and social media sharing. Let’s explore! Custom Meta Descriptions Typically, search engines will pull text from …

Community Recap: Automattic’s Worldwide WordPress 5K

Five kilometers. So many stories.

The Best of WordPress: September 2016

New sites, new features, and a little bit about how we work.

Join Automattic’s Worldwide WP 5k 2016

Bloggers and runners (and walkers, joggers, and hoppers) of the world, unite!