Before starting a new week on WordPress.com, be sure to check out the features that made a splash on Hot Off the Press last week:
- We launched our new location tagging feature, allowing you to share your whereabouts with your readers.
- 22 WordPress.com bloggers were nominated as 2014 BlogHer Voices of the Year — so a celebration was called for!
- Those of you building a website should give these tips on how to enhance your homepage a try.
- We welcomed two beautiful new themes, Bloggy and Oslo, and showcased some of the gorgeous sites using Ubud.
- Finally, both museum blogs and published WordPress.com authors got a much-deserved moment in the spotlight.
Pro tip of the week: Adding a Follow Blog Widget somewhere prominent in your sidebar can help you convert one-time visitors into loyal readers. Repeat visitors are also the ones most likely to engage with your content, leave comments, and develop a long-term dialog with you and your blog.
Coming up this week:
- A look at themes with striking custom menus,
- A chance to win signed copies of The Year Without Pants, the behind-the-scenes chronicle of working on WordPress.com,
- And more…
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I always love the featured blogs that you choose…
Thanks for your update! The “enhance your homepage” post was very useful, especially since I learnt how to include links in text widgets 🙂
Hi Ben – thanks so much for these weekly updates! They are so helpful-
This is off topic but from where is this photo?
It’s a Creative Commons-licensed image from Flickr — the image credits are in the bottom-right corner of the picture.