For us, WordPress.com is our labor of love — we’re continually releasing new themes, upgrades, and features to help you create the best website and/or blog you can. In addition to great tools, we publish articles, prompts, and writing and photo challenges to inspire you to start posting and keep posting. While we’re never, ever done making WordPress.com better, we wanted to look back at some of the goodies we brought you in 2012.
We’ve got the look: 65+ new themes in 2012
We released themes at a rate of more than one a week in 2012. These beautiful themes look great no matter which device your visitors use to see your content. What’s more, if you’re a musician, restaurateur, bride-or-groom-to-be, or a civil servant looking for a simple way to share information with your audience, we’ve got you covered.
Tae Phoenix is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter who recently released her first album, Rise. Her site takes full advantage of everything WordPress.com and the Soundcheck theme have to offer, with embedded audio and video, a tour calendar, her Twitter feed, links to her new album, and press mentions.
Custom Design puts you in charge
Have design chops or an eye for contrast, color, and composition? With the Custom Design upgrade, you can tinker with your site’s CSS, compose a unique color palette for your site, and choose from among some awesome Typekit fonts to create the specific look you desire for your online home on the web.
New and improved for 2012
No matter whether you’re just starting to blog or are a seasoned web designer, here’s a sampling of how we made WordPress.com better for you in 2012:
- We doubled the space we offer in the space upgrade.
- We introduced SASS and LESS for those who’ve got the Custom CSS upgrade.
- We added unique visitors and countries to all WordPress.com stats pages.
- We created importers to help you bring your Tumblr blog or your Splinder site to WordPress.com.
- We released tiled galleries that allow you to get creative with photos on your blog.
We made a lot of progress in 2012 and we’re already working on bringing you more awesome in 2013. Happy New Year from WordPress.com!
Thanks Krista! I’m a new blogger and loving it.
Wonderful. It has become lighter too. I just have one suggestion -
In the stats section, where in you have some wonderful changes implemented this year, I would like to have a (next/prev) button or arrow hyperlink which can take you to Yesterday’s stats and tomorrow’s stats. Considering today is a mid-day. For now users have to “return to stats” every time.
Thanks. Proud to be on WP.
The more support I see you add, the only thought I have is “Why did I not look for you sooner????”
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Thanks for providing such a great free service!
You are wizards! Labor of love or not, all that you do takes time, thought, and effort. Thank you for all your hard work. Happy New Year!
Keep up the great work, WordPress! It’s been an impressive year! Happy New Year to you all!
We bloggers appreciate your attention to making the experience so positive for us.
Brilliant work!!! Thanks for all of the friendly and competent support and enhanced features; WordPress and VideoPress ROCK!!! All the best for 2013
THANK YOU!!!! I love WordPress and appreciate the great features and new themes. You all do a great job!!!
Thank you! You make writing a blog possible for so many of us who would have no idea how to do it otherwise! And it is so much more with all these possibilities.
Thank you. I have enjoyed the additions. I love the new themes available as well. I actually wrote something today about the addition of the “unique visitors” and “country” stats. A lot of people didn’t seem to understand how to utilize the stats vs. just see them.
How/where can I go to learn about all things WordPress? How everything works… back end, plug ins, updates, etc., etc., etc.??
Thank you!
Great 2012!! I have thoroughly enjoyed WordPress. It’s like you read our mind. The moment I tell myself “I wish the would …” I wake up one day and its done. And then there are those features that we don’t even know we want until you give them to us. You make blogging fun … And beautiful!
Happy New Year!
Thank you for all you do to make WordPress such a great place to have a blog.
Pretty, just now trying to keep up with the differences in layout
Blogging has opened a whole new world for me, and I thank WordPress for being so user friendly and accessible. Happy New Year!!
Thank you, WP, for all you do.
Thank you… It’s great to be part of the WordPress family.
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