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How to Create an Online Portfolio Website With WordPress to Share Your Work
If you’re an active or aspiring creative professional, and you’re looking to land more clients, then you’ll need a high-quality portfolio website. Here's how to build yours with WordPress.com.
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WordPress Comments: How to Moderate, Disable, and Stop Spam (+ 8 Best Plugins)
Make the most of comments in WordPress — see the top tips and best tools for moderating discussions, eliminating spam, and encouraging engagement.
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Take Your Blog to the Next Level with These 5 Blogging Trends
There are more than 600 million blogs online, and thousands of new posts are uploaded every minute. One of the best ways to make your blog stand out is to understand and adopt current trends. Here are the top five blogging methods, styles, and techniques for you to focus on today:
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How to Create a Custom Login Page in WordPress (3 Methods)
Tired of the default WordPress login screen? Create your own custom page! Learn how to make changes with code & see the top plugins that do it all for you!
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Are PNG or JPG Images Better for Site Speed?
Choosing the right image type can help cut down on big file sizes. Here's how to decide between a PNG or JPG to keep your load times as low as possible.
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Image SEO: 12 Tips to Optimize Images and Drive Search Traffic
Improve your user experience & search rankings with image optimization. It’s about more than just alt text — 12 quick ways to improve your performance!
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Changes to Our Pricing Plans
Starting today, we’re bringing back our Personal, Premium, Business, and eCommerce plans – in addition to the free plan. Here’s what that looks like.
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How to Create, Edit & Customize Your WordPress Navigation Menu (Classic & Block Themes)
A perfectly designed WordPress menu makes for happier site visitors and better results. See how to enhance your menu and the best way to make quick changes!
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.blog Featured Site: sarahsayspets.blog
Sarah Hodgson is the dog trainer, pet behavior consultant, and media expert behind sarahsayspets.blog. With over thirty years of experience helping people and their pets and having authored several dog training books, she’s a self-described “pet-obsessed mom.”
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Automattic Women: Christy Nyiri
We’ve grown three-fold (!!) since I started two years ago, and I’m proud of how we’ve refined and matured our design processes, and continue to do so, as our team scales.
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How to Choose the Best WordPress Theme
With so many choices, how do you choose a theme for your WordPress site? See the questions you need to answer and the best places to find vetted themes.
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Preventing Form Spam
Although your site visitors never see it, form spam is a headache for site owners – especially if you get email or text notifications every time a visitor completes a form on your site. Preventing form spam helps alleviate this headache. But what is form spam exactly? Most form spam occurs when bots discover your…
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9 WordPress Video Plugins to Upload, Host, & Play Videos
Get the most from your videos — from ad-free experiences to built-in lead generation tools, these are the best free and premium video plugins for WordPress.
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Publish Blog Posts to Your Telegram Channel Automatically With JetpackWP Bot
With the JetpackWP Bot for Telegram, you can now automatically share blog posts from any Jetpack-powered WordPress site directly to a Telegram channel.
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Publish Blog Posts to Your Telegram Channel Automatically With JetpackWP Bot
With the JetpackWP Bot for Telegram, you can now automatically share blog posts from any Jetpack-powered WordPress site (including any site hosted at WordPress.com) directly to a Telegram channel. Here's how it works.
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Making GIFs load faster
AKA why are some of my GIFs being turned into videos?OverviewWe’re experimenting with serving GIFs as MP4 videos instead of GIFV (which typically serves animated WebP) on the web to a small subset of folks on Tumblr, not everyone. This does not affect anyone using the mobile apps.The performance improvements from using MP4s in this…
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Eight Ways to Optimize Your WordPress Site’s Performance
Top tips to optimize your WordPress site’s speed and performance. See proven tools and shortcuts for maximum impact with minimal work.
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Advanced Custom Fields Review: A Better Way to Use WordPress Custom Fields
We break down what you need to know about the WordPress plugin, Advanced Custom Fields. Review, how to implement, and alternatives included.
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Jetpack Design Meetup in Barcelona
A key part of distributed life is meetups. We plan them together, choose the location, dates, and activities, and then travel to meet there for work, and for fun. A perfect setting to get to know each other, work together, explore our surroundings, and create memories that last a lifetime. The Jetpack Design Team met each other for the first time in Barcelona, Spain.
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How to Find, Access, & Edit wp-config.php in WordPress
Your full guide for editing wp-config.php in WordPress. Step-by-step directions for common edits and troubleshooting questions answered!
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Blogs and Videos: How and Why They Go Together
Video content has become central to how we share and consume information. A survey by Wyzowl found that the average person spends around 19 hours per week watching online videos, an increase of 8.5 hours since 2018.
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Purchase Yoast SEO Premium Directly on WordPress.com
The Best Premium SEO Plugin Just Got Easier to Buy
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WordPress Child Theme: How to Create, Customize & Troubleshoot One
Get step-by-step guidance to create a WordPress child theme. Plus, tips for getting the most from your efforts and how to troubleshoot common errors.
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20 Basic Website Design Elements (And Why They Matter)
From headers & footers to iconography & parallax effects — 20 top website elements and actionable tips for designing an award-winning WordPress website.
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Share WordPress.com Blog Posts to Telegram With WordPressDotCom Bot
Wish you could share new WordPress.com blog posts to a Telegram channel automatically? Now you can with the WordPressDotCom Bot for Telegram. Here's how it works.
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Jetpack 11.1 – Under-the-hood improvements for your site
On the back of our major launch last month of our new individual plugins, in this release we have shipped some under-the-hood improvements for an enhanced Jetpack experience.
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.blog Featured Site: polychrome.blog
Polychrome.blog is “a colorful art fashion blog” where each post is a colorful photoshoot featuring fashion styled by the blogger, and set against colorful art. This blog showcases up-and-coming designers and thrifted vintage pieces, in unique and vibrant environments.
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How to Start an Online Clothing Store with WordPress.com
Want to fill that dream of owning an online clothing boutique but you can't code? No worries. We show you how to make it all happen here – no coding skills needed.
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An Adventure with Swift Charts
As you all may already know, one of the cool new things introduced in WWDC 2022 was Swift Charts, a framework to create charts with SwiftUI. To learn more about the Swift Charts’ potential, let’s go on a thrilling adventure to replace the chart in WooCommerce iOS with this ✨✨ shiny new framework ✨✨. To…
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Jetpack Search Improvements: Helping your visitors find more of what they are looking for
If you own a site or online store that has lots of content or products, search is a vital component to ensure that your visitors find what they need quickly. Learn about recent improvements we have made to Jetpack Search to help your visitors find more of what they are looking for.
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