[New post] New Theme: Nishita

New Theme: Nishita Lance Willett | September 14, 2011 at 4:02 pm | Categories: Themes | URL: http://wp.me/pf2B5-27A

Nishita is a simple, minimally-styled photoblogging theme—now available for WordPress.com blogs. With a choice of dark or light color scheme, the muted design puts all the focus on your photos. Not only is this theme designed for photos, it loves big photos: the default layout is super-wide at 1024 pixels.

Nishita example, dark color scheme.

Theme options include two layout choices: "Photoblog" at 1024 pixels wide, or "Blog" at 768 pixels wide. For an even more reduced photoblog look, you could change your WordPress.com reading settings to show one post per page, and thus only one image will show at a time on your front page.

This photo-loving theme also uses post thumbnails to show a small version of images on your archive pages. Personalize it with a custom background, header image, and menu.

Learn more about this Nishita—and how to set it up for maximum photoblog awesomeness—over on the Theme Showcase. This theme is based on the original design by Brajeshwar.

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[New post] Two New Apps for WordPress.com

Two New Apps for WordPress.com Justin Shreve | September 7, 2011 at 4:59 pm | Categories: Applications, WordPress.com | URL: http://wp.me/pf2B5-25g

Earlier this summer we launched a few tools to make it easier for developers to create new apps for WordPress.com. Starting today, you can integrate your WordPress.com blog with Feedfabrik and Empire Avenue.

Turn Your Blog Into a Book

Have you ever wanted to publish your own book, or a collection of your favorite blog posts?

Feedfabrik makes it easy to convert your WordPress.com blog into a book format, and even allows you to customize the cover design and book contents. You can order a hard copy of your book, or a digital PDF edition.

To try it out, head over to Feedfabrik, choose Bookfabrik, then select "I'm on WordPress.com." Receive a 10% discount on all September orders with the code "WORDPRESS-INTRO".

Grow Your Social Capital Online

Empire Avenue is a Social Stock Market, where your social networking activity and engagement earn you virtual currency and determine your virtual share price. It also helps you discover new people and brands, and allows you to invest virtual currency in their profiles by buying shares on the Social Stock Market.

Along the way you'll have a bit of fun, make new connections, and learn about social networking and the value of your network! Empire Avenue is completely free and deals in virtual currency. Sign up today to get started.

These integrations are made possible because WordPress.com supports a protocol called OAuth2. OAuth2 allows developers to build applications that securely communicate with WordPress.com. We have also launched a developer portal to help developers to get more information about our platform. 

 If your service wants to build with us, don't hesitate to contact us through the developer portal.

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[New post] New Site Stats Show You Who Comments Most

New Site Stats Show You Who Comments Most Greg | September 7, 2011 at 4:22 pm | Categories: Stats | URL: http://wp.me/pf2B5-260

Ever wanted to know who's commenting the most on your blog and what posts they are commenting on? Now your Site Stats can tell you.

The new Comments panel in your Site Stats provides three tabs: Top Commenters, Most Commented, and a Summary of comments on your blog.

If your blog has fewer than 1000 total comments, your comment stats are based on all comments made since you started your blog. Comment stats for more active blogs reflect the most recent three months of comment activity.

For example, a blog with 500 total comments will have the most commented post be the one that has had the most comments across the entire life of the blog. For this blog (with 87K comments) the most commented post is chosen from the posts that were posted in the past three months.

The Stats Comments Panel is available now for all WordPress.com blogs. Jetpack users, please bear with us as we improve Jetpack to serve you the new comment stats in the future.

Check out the comment stats on your blog by going to your blog's Dashboard > Site Stats or from your admin bar under Blogs > [YOUR SITE NAME] > Site Stats.

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[New post] New Theme: Comet

New Theme: Comet Lance Willett | September 6, 2011 at 5:14 pm | Categories: Themes | URL: http://wp.me/pf2B5-25C

Comet—the latest theme addition to our growing collection—sports a lightweight, faded design with simple and classy typographic touches. Perfect for any type of blog, it works really well for showcasing your writing and photos.

Comet home page example.

Make it yours by choosing from seven color schemes and four different layout options.

Customize it even further with a header image, background, and custom menu. Comet also includes a full-width template for dropping the sidebar on pages. See more information on the Theme Showcase.

Designed by Frostpress, Comet is available now in your dashboard under Appearance → Themes and, for self-hosted blogs at the WordPress.org theme directory.

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[New post] New Theme: Selecta

New Theme: Selecta Michelle Langston | September 1, 2011 at 12:44 am | Categories: Themes | URL: http://wp.me/pf2B5-24T

Today we've got a treat for you -- a new theme called Selecta. This might be the theme you've been waiting for if videos or images will be the primary focus of your blog. The design, originally created by Obox Design, fuses the modern with the retro — a bold, striking color palette (in six color schemes), rounded edges, and wider-than-usual frames around content.

Blue Color Scheme (Default)

Blue and Black Color Scheme

Green and Black Color Scheme

Red and Black Color Scheme

Sea Blue Color Scheme

White Rose Color Scheme

Selecta is loaded with elements that highlight your images and videos.  First, there's the featured slider that showcases your sticky posts at the top of the front page. Next, there's the "Latest Posts" row that places your four most recent posts in fun, rounded boxes, also on the front page. That's not all — if you create a post with the video or image Post Format, Selecta will display your content in a wide, one-column template on the single post view. This ensures that your images and videos receive your readers' undivided attention. Talk about showing off!

I certainly haven't revealed everything this theme has to offer.  Click on over to the Theme Showcase to read more about Selecta and all of its great features.

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[New post] New Theme: Minimum

New Theme: Minimum Matías | August 31, 2011 at 4:59 pm | Categories: Themes | URL: http://wp.me/pf2B5-24N

Minimum, a stunning execution of "less is more," is a new premium theme developed by StudioPress and available for your WordPress.com blog today.

The Minimum Theme

Part of Minimum's charm is the option for customizing the look of your site. With many layouts to choose from, optional porfolio and featured sections, custom header, and custom background, you have plenty to create with.

Minimum is available for a lifetime subscription of $75. Read more about what this theme offers or preview it live on your blog from Appearance → Themes.

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[New post] Giving the support site a refresh

Giving the support site a refresh Andrew Spittle | August 30, 2011 at 6:45 pm | Categories: Support | URL: http://wp.me/pf2B5-24p

Keeping WordPress.com's documentation up to date and accessible is one part of what the Happiness Team works on. We've long had lots of documentation, but we realized that the design and flow of the support site spoke more to us Happiness Engineers. How backward is that?

That all changes today. :) Before, you saw a long page filled with lists. Now you see eight content groupings on the homepage.

Before

After!

We looked at a lot of data about where people run into problems with WordPress.com. Using this we redesigned the site by weeding back overgrown lists, eliminating overly complicated jargon, and putting the answers to the questions you've asked most front and center.

If those new sections don't have the answers you seek, we prominently placed a very effective search option at the top right that is perfect for pinpointing an answer to an obscure issue.

There's more coming too so keep an eye out. We'll keep working hard to make it even easier to find the information you need.

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