In what we're hoping is the beginning of a trend, WordPress.com has announced a new built-in URL-shortening service for all of its hosted blogs. Now, when you create a post on your WordPress.com blog, ...

Microsoft is shutting down its Windows Live Spaces blogging service and migrating an estimated 30 million of its users to the competing blogging site WordPress.com, owned by Web development firm ...

If blogging is all about self-expression, why do so many blogs look so blah? Most free blog services offer only a handful of designs, giving you few options for personalizing your site. Most beginner ...

WordPress.com is finally giving its bloggers the opportunity to earn a little revenue from their well-crafted words, and taking a jab at Google simultaneously. The WordPress.com blog has revealed a ...

In a blog post on the WordPress.com blog, Automattic‘s Justin Shreve this morning acknowledged his employer’s aspirations to turn WordPress.com into more of a platform than a mere Web-based blogging ...

Try to fire up a new blog on Windows Live and you’ll be directed to WordPress.com, the hosting portion of an insanely popular open source blogging platform that, until recently, had nothing to do with ...

Automattic has teamed up with Federated Media to – finally – allow WordPress.com bloggers to make money from online advertising. The project is called WordAds and if you’re on WordPress.com you can ...

The confusion between WordPress.com versus WordPress.org continues to rage. This persistent confusion leads many people to choose the wrong blogging platform for their needs. Before we dig deeper, let ...

A WordPress blog can give you access to a host of marketing tools while allowing you to build a distinct and informative company identity online. Unfortunately, hosting on WordPress.com limits you to ...