We’ve been updating WordPress.com to make it faster and more powerful behind the scenes. We’ve now introduced some changes to the WordPress.com interface as well, making website, blog, and content creation more intuitive and consistent across devices. Here’s a roundup of some of the enhanced functionality that you’ll see in WordPress.com starting today, with more updates coming next week — stay tuned!
Upgraded stats
Mobile-friendly navigation
Millions of people use WordPress.com on mobile devices, and to ensure that our mobile users have a first-class experience, we gave the WordPress.com navigation interface a little love. It’s responsive across devices, and its simpler, more streamlined design lets users find or create amazing content from anywhere.
My Sites updates
My Sites is the hub for creating blog content, organizing website pages, adjusting look and feel, and managing any and all WordPress.com websites and blogs tied to a user’s account. We announced initial updates to My Sites recently, and have since acted on wonderful user feedback to make My Sites more streamlined. Your sites will now appear in an easy-to-search sidebar, and you’ll have access to stats, posts, and themes for any and all of your sites with fewer clicks.
My Profile
My Profile is the new destination for managing account settings. Get there by clicking on your Gravatar picture. In addition to handling administration settings like basic account info and billing history, users can add Gravatar images, view WordPress.com milestones and achievements, or tap into social networks to expand their blogging community.
Support documentation is also accessible from My Profile for those who seek more guidance, and friendly live support is just a click away when our Happiness Engineers are available.
Onward!
We’re continuing to make WordPress.com faster, more powerful, and more user-friendly across devices for all our users — those with a single blog and those with multiple WordPress sites. To that end, we are listening to user feedback and rolling out updates when they’re ready. Give the new navigation and enhanced stats a whirl, and let us know what you think!
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Like it so far…very clean design and it runs really smooth.
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So far I am finding it a lot smoother experience with the new upgrades. Thank you!
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The changes sound great! Can’t wait to experience them. I don’t use my WordPress site as much as I would like to; I have too much else to do with writing and teaching and being a mom. But when I teach my Grade 7 media classes about blogging, I tell them that WordPress is the best.
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I have been waiting for this update for a while actually. Now I can finally enjoy it. Thank you again WordPress! :-)
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Wow very clean design and it’s been a good treat to eyes :)
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It sounds like WP did a lot of work to improve our experience, and yet, I prefer the classic dashboard.
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This is something really nice.
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I really like these updates! They really improve navigating the site and kind of make me want to dust off my poor abandoned blog!
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Personally, I like the idea of 1/3 of my screen being used for a redundant menu bar!
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Love it guys! Thanks so much for the ongoing effort to improve it for bloggers and for incorporating feedback. Thumbs up for this!
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Um, I like the old one, it’s more compact. This is faster, but if just compress it a bit, it’ll be perfect.
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Just the stats page
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I’m SO happy about the change, been trying to change my photo from silly avatar mode for almost 3 months now w/ no success. It took only a few minutes this time & it actually worked! Thank you! :D
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