Giles Jordan says he made mistakes in his first year of blogging. He’s what he learned.

Selling products or offering services on your site? Here are 10 tips on generating leads and sales.

There’s no magic formula for a great About page. Here are 10 effective but very different examples.

These successful sellers use the Simple Payments button in effective ways.

New to the WordPress app? Here are five ways to start blogging and interacting with your readers on your phone.

Creators on WordPress.com share what they’d like to accomplish in 2018.

From Peru to Germany to Australia, from fireworks to music festivals to late-night hikes, bloggers around the world show us how they welcomed 2018.

From writing advice to hands-on blogging tips, these are 2017’s community favorites.

Our readers tell us how they show their love.

Try a call-to-action button to guide your readers to what’s most important on your site.

A spotlight on an illustration portfolio site that channels the textures and flavors of a colorful, diverse region.

How do you show your love for family, friends, and community?

A great photography site should look crisp regardless of format or device.

Our avatar—our profile image—represents who we are online. Here, five bloggers tell us about theirs.

For many of us, writing is catharsis: a way to process and release difficult emotions. Few things are as emotional as the loss of a friend, family member, personal hero, or pet so it’s no surprise that we read a lot of posts paying tribute to lost loved ones and trying to make sense of […]

“I don’t recognize the words anymore. Who was I back then?”

Last week, we highlighted Ann Morgan’s amazing reading project, Postcards from my bookshelf. For each month in 2017, she’s selecting a book and mailing it to a reader somewhere in the world. Readers had much to say about Ann’s book-labor of love. Here are a handful of their responses. Ready for a custom domain, advanced […]

In a guest post, author Ann Morgan—the blogger at A Year of Reading the World—reflects on her 2017 project, “Postcards from my bookshelf.”

Ann Coleman on silencing the inner critic and writing with confidence.

“The more you work at it, the closer it gets to what you have in your head.”

Explore The Chicago Review of Books, a literary publication.

These three blogs use the Libre 2 theme and custom headers in different ways.

Real or fictional, maps don’t just represent space — they also make storytelling possible.

These two websites use payment buttons to promote and sell seminars and books.

Browse the dark fantasy art of Shaima Islam.