Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, that’s creativity.
— Charles Mingus
From the time we started WordPress.com in 2005, we’ve focused on making it easy and rewarding to use so that anyone could get started with blogging. Along the way all of you who’ve been using WordPress.com and giving us your feedback have helped us figure out which features to roll out next. Thanks!
I took a look back at all the feature announcements we’ve made here, and it came to 370 posts, 82 in 2009 alone. That’s a lot of features. So in case you missed anything along the way here are some of my picks for cool things you can do with WordPress.com.
Create
We’ve set up lots of ways for you to write, post photos and videos, and generally add stuff to your blog, including mobile apps.
- Add quotes, images, and videos to your blog while browsing other web sites with the Press This bookmarklet.
- Post by email makes it easy to publish blog posts from any email client. (It’s what I use to post to my photoblog.)
- Post additional media to your blog, like video, with the VideoPress Upgrade and music, with the Space Upgrade
- Use shortcodes to display videos, slideshows, polls, maps, and more.
- Write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog using WordPress for iPhone, WordPress for Blackberry, and m.wordpress.com.
- Import your blog to WordPress.com from other platforms, like Blogger and TypePad.
- Schedule posts and pages so your blog can update itself, change your post and page timestamps, and display a page as your front page.
Personalize
You can also tweak how your blog looks, set the domain to be your own and pick your language.
- Customize the appearance of your blog with the Custom CSS Upgrade.
- Map your domain to remove “.wordpress.com” from your blog’s URL.
- Change the language of your dashboard and blogs, contribute translations to WordPress.com using GlotPress. We have support forums in Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
Share and Read
We’ve built in some cool sharing and reading features so you can easily let people know about your new posts and also see what other people are blogging.
- Publicize your blog using:
Email subscriptions for posts and comments
Twitter
Yahoo! Updates
RSS
- Subscribe to other blogs using:
Email subscriptions for posts and comments
The Tag Surfer
Readomattic
Jabber
Twitter
We’re working on much more for you in 2010. In the meantime check out Support for an updated list of features, and tips on making the most of your blog. Thanks for making WordPress.com amazing.
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all in 1 great work
wicked! thanks a bunch, I’m a newbie!
Thank you so much.
Thank you for the hints!
Cool….it helped a lot!
Thanks a lot man!
I am just in love with wordpress. I use .org for our company blog and just got started on .com. Looking to transition soon with a domain of mine.
Fabulous tip! I just started my blog and have only 4 posts and super surprised about how many reads I’ve received (over 700). My blog template is rather boring … going to check out the Custom CSS Upgrade.
Thanks for the info!
~melody~
good tips, thanks 😀
As usual, great help, advice and support from WordPress. Thanks!
G
great quote!!
you guys are great !!., thanks for all you’ve done… 🙂
best regards.
Thanks for the tips. Press This tip sounds very helpful.
Wow! great tips. Thank you for all.
If you left things as they are, I’d be happy and not worry about any upgrades.
I appreciate it.
Awesome tips. Thanks!
Thanks for this great work
I love using WordPress for iPhone on my iPod touch! Thank you WordPress!
Thanks for making blogging so easy, even for techno-phobes likes me! Love the Iphone app as well!
Fun-Fun-Fun in the WordPress World
Am new to this, actually am not even a week old and i am sure that these tips will help alot. SO thatnks a bunch for that
Very Helpful! Thanks!
Thanks and keep up the excellent work!
Congratulation
Is there a way to associate a personalized ‘favicon’ with a WordPress blog? But that, I mean the little image that shows up in the browser tab along with the name of the blog?
Thanks!
Kathryn
Thank you. I’m still learning my way around. Hope you enjoy my contributions.
This is easier than it first seemed and many new and helpful applications are always being added.
It’s a writer’s dream!
Bobby
WordPress is my favorite blogging platform. It’s fun, and easy to use. 🙂
Thanks for wordpress and for your help…
thanks for your information . .
Thank you friend.
WordPress- by far the best blogging site about.
Just starting out hoping to add pictures a.s.a.p
thanks for user friendly blog site, for giving these tips ..,
Thanks WordPress
This is really a great help to know all those features in a single page. So far my experience with wordpress has been really fruitful ..Thanks a lot!!
Thanks
thanks this is so cool:)
so good!!!! thanx for all..
WordPress.com has been user friendly and beneficial to helping others. God bless.
Thanks, great features
Thanks for your tips. I’m a newbie, I’ll try these.
So how about a good search engine button that works and a Table of Contents generator for the Blog.
Can you also improve the spell check—the current dies many times and is slow
I’ve been blogging for some time but wordpress.com is a kind of treasure i just dug up. You made it more fun and easy and the tips and apps are awesome. In the coming days my presence will be felt. Thank you guys.
Thanks for everything 🙂
Thanks!!!
Ok so if I wanna start a blog it’s just the design and the way of using the media that counts? mhm….
the mingus quote says it all… love it!!!
i wonder if you could post next time about how to get your blog google indexed or indexed by any web crawler?
thx for information
thanks very much…i love wordpress
that’s great bro..thanks for your Tips
that would be awesome Yanguang
I just love blogging on wordpress. I am slowly learning how to use it. Still don’t know how to remove the search feature from my page but it’s all fun…thanks!
I am a computer-challenged person with no coding skills – You have made it very easy for me to have my own chemistry web page, fast-loading, free of ads and plugs, and so far I don’t even have to pay you for hosting me (although I may upgrade later on).
I encourage my friends and colleagues to give it a try and start their own WordPress blog. Please keep up at it!
WordPress rocks a lot. I just love it. And Thanks for your tips.
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Thanks for the tips.
Great article. Good tips to make it on WordPress!
I’m looking forward to adding audio and AddThis button to the posts…thanks for briefing…it helps me catch up.
Excellent job Matt! I love the ease with which even relative newbies like me can use WordPress. This might not be the right forum but can you make the process easy so people who subscribe to CommentLuv can have their latest post displayed after their comment on my blog. I haven’t figured out how to make that happen on my WordPress blog.
Thank you! 😉