The magazine-style theme Expound has just been released for WordPress.com users. Some slight changes and updates will be pushed back to the self-hosted version in the coming weeks.
The Great Firewall of Russia
It’s a shame that the Russian “consumer watchdog” Rospotrebnadzor, the Ministry of Justice, and the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (or Roskomnadzor) were “smart” enough to block access to over 20 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com because three of them contained suicide, drugs, and...
Theme Publish is now on WordPress.com
I released a WordPress theme called Publish earlier this month, and today, thanks to the awesome Theme Team of Automattic, Publish has been made available to all WordPress.com users. Publish is a clean and minimal WordPress theme, perfect for (but not limited to) single-author blogs. While working on shipping Publish to WordPress.com customers, a bunch of improvements have been made to the theme...
Custom Colors on WordPress.com
Now that’s an awesome way to leverage the WordPress 3.4 theme customizer! The Custom Design upgrade on WordPress.com gets a Custom Colors update — it allows you to color your blog to your taste, with those awesome predefined color palettes, color matching recommendations, or complete control with manual color picking. Let’s hope the whole Custom Design package makes it into...
WordPress.com now with a REST API!
Tim Moore has recently announced the REST API for WordPress.com, which allows you to access the data available on WordPress.com blogs in many new and fun ways, as well build cool applications on top of the platform, leveraging even the latest “dot com” features, such as likes, follows and reblogs. You’ll absolutely love the Developer Console, which allows you to run real REST...
Custom CSS Now with CSS3 Support on WordPress.com
Who said all WordPress.com blogs have to look the same? Who said you cannot customize your theme unless you’re running self-hosted WordPress? WordPress.com had the Custom Design upgrade for quite some time now, and now it’s suited and booted with CSS3 support: animation, gradients, shadows, transforms and a bunch of other stuff. You can even make your non-responsive theme into a...
San Kloud Theme by Theme.fm, now on WordPress.com
Today WordPress.com has launched a couple of new themes, and one of them is San Kloud. I remember introducing the San Kloud theme for WordPress on Theme.fm, back in August last year, and it’s made almost nine thousand downloads since then. Designed by Umit Kayabas and developed by Alexander Permyakov, San Kloud is a great theme for blogging. Congratulations to the Theme.fm team for making...
Introducing Milestones on WordPress.com
Good news! WordPress.com rolls out a few terrific badges for achievements, which will keep you motivated, and not only to post more often, but to post quality content, because the new badges are for likes and for followers. Here’s a screenshot of how it looks: With all those new features introduced on WordPress.com — likes, reblogs, achievements and badges, I’m really loving the...