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8 Okt 2013

[New post] Viral Post Leads to Ads Windfall: Jon Negroni’s “The Pixar Theory”


Jon Burke posted: "Blogger Jon Negroni's viral post, "The Pixar Theory," was so big that it was republished on Mashable and Slate.  To date, the post has accumulated 4.4 million views on Negroni's site. Many of us think about readership growth as a function of regular post"


30 Sep 2013

[New post] Traffic Dos and Don’ts: A Checklist


Ben Huberman posted: "One of the main reasons bloggers stop blogging is lack of traffic: at some point, they get tired of being the proverbial tree in the forest, making sounds nobody hears. We're here to help. No list of advice can guarantee your blog's success, but it's imp"


27 Sep 2013

[New post] Digging In the Dashboard, Part II: Features for Longform Posts


Elizabeth posted: "As we discussed in the first installment of Digging in the Dashboard, WordPress.com has so many great features that it's tough to be familiar with them all. I'm still discovering new ones myself! Let's keep the discovery going with three more features tha"


25 Sep 2013

[New post] Cloudup Joins the Automattic Family


Raanan Bar-Cohen posted: "Uploading media and sharing content are at the core of the WordPress publishing experience, and that experience is something we obsess about. Today we're delighted to announce we're acquiring Cloudup, a company that's as fanatical about these core experi"


[New post] Stats Wrangling IV: Referrers and Clicks


Cheri Lucas Rowlands posted: " This summer, we provided a bird's-eye view of your Stats panel and have taken tours of various modules (Days, Weeks, and Months and Top Posts and Pages) that offer data about your site's visitors and your most popular content. Today, let's take a look "


24 Sep 2013

[New post] What a Difference a Header Makes! Three Theme Transformations


michelle w. posted: "WordPress.com bloggers create some truly bespoke sites using our 200+ themes as a starting point -- the possibilities are endless, especially if you're willing to give CSS a try. What if you want something that's more off-the-shelf, but still feels like "


23 Sep 2013

[New post] Pocket and WordPress.com: Saving and Sharing Made Easy


Cheri Lucas Rowlands posted: "Working with our pals at Pocket -- a service that lets you save articles, longreads, and other media like videos that you find on the web -- we're happy to announce you can easily save content on WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered self-hosted sites, which "