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• Jenny Diski on Writing, Love, and Cancer
  on Jun 17, 2015 in Freshly Pressed WordPress.com Writing author books cancer essays jenny diski london review of books longreads memoir new york times magazine writer
  The author and essayist reflects on a terminal cancer diagnosis, and all of the conflicted feelings that come with writing about it.
• New Themes: Boardwalk and Sela
  on Jan 8, 2015 in Themes
  We’re celebrating the New Year with two free themes: Boardwalk and Sela. Boardwalk Designed by yours truly, Boardwalk is a clean, simple, and responsive theme. Powered with horizontal scrolling and built around large featured images, Boardwalk...
• WordPress Takes SXSW
  on Mar 4, 2011 in Community WordPress sxsw
  Next week a bunch of us from Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com, will be attending South by Southwest Interactive. It’s one of our favorite events of the year, and we hope to see many of you there in person. This year WordPress and Automat...
• Introducing Subscriptions
  on Sep 10, 2010 in Features reader subscriptions
  Do you have trouble keeping track of all the blogs you read each morning? You may use RSS feeds to keep track, but those can be tricky to manage for a non-technical person. You may also open multiple tabs and scan through every blog, but that becomes...
• New Twitter “Tweet Button”
  on Aug 12, 2010 in Features tweet button twitter
  For those of you who have been dreaming of an easier way for your readers to share your posts on Twitter, that day has come. We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added an official Tweet Button as an option for all WordPress.com blogs. How...
• New Theme: Motion
  on Feb 10, 2010 in Design Themes
  I’m happy to present to you, “Motion,” a dashing new theme inspired by movement and film. Bursting with style and options, Motion is a clean, colorful, and charismatic new theme. Motion combines color and clean lines to give your co...