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The New York Observer Relaunches on WordPress

The New York Observer Relaunches on WordPress    阅读原文» Last week The New York Observer launched a redesign of Observer.com , and switchedfrom Drupal to WordPress in the process. The site’s redesign “focused on cleaner presentation that would accommodate more breaking news and higher volume posting”, says Elizabeth Spiers, the paper’s editor-in-chief. [ via ] [Visit Observer.com ] Want WordPress for your site? Get.WP.com 阅读更多内容 该邮件由 QQ邮件列表 推送。 如果您不想继续收到该邮件,可点此 退订 。

VentureBeat now on WordPress.com VIP

VentureBeat now on WordPress.com VIP    阅读原文» At the end of last week VentureBeat.com migrated to WordPress.com VIP hosting Started by award-winning journalist Matt Marshall in 2006, VentureBeat has long been a WordPress showcase site. Today, nearly 30,000 articles have been published on VentureBeat, and the archives dates back to August, 2004. There is a lot of our tech industry history laid out in these articles, and insights throughout. While monitoring the import to WordPress.com, it was cool to see the team growth and the breadth of topics covered increase tenfold from its inception. [Visit VentureBeat.com ] 阅读更多内容 该邮件由 QQ邮件列表 推送。 如果您不想继续收到该邮件,可点此 退订 。

New Theme: Delicious Magazine

New Theme: Delicious Magazine    阅读原文» If you’ve wanted a magazine theme for your blog but haven’t found just the right one today’s new theme might just do it for you. It’s called Delicious Magazine and it’s the latest in a series of terrific magazine themes from WooThemes. The Delicious Magazine Theme If you love using images to draw your visitors into your writing, you’ll love Delicious Magazine. Right away you can see how it uses Featured Images to build an elegant area for highlighting groups of select posts on your home page. And just like the other premium magazine themes available on WordPress.com it’s packed with features that let anyone easily customize the design. Delicious Magazine is available for the lifetime of your blog for $45. Read more about the Delicious Magazine features or preview it live on your blog from Appearance → Themes . It might be the magazine theme you’ve been waiting for! 阅读更多内容 该邮件由 QQ邮件列表 推送。 如果您不想继续收到该邮件,可点此 退订 。

Personalize Your Blog with the New Custom Design Upgrade

Personalize Your Blog with the New Custom Design Upgrade    阅读原文» Today we’re excited to bring you Custom Design , a powerful new tool that combines easy to use, code-free font selection from Typekit and a beautiful CSS editing interface with world-class support from our famous WordPress.com Happiness Engineers. You’ll find both new features―Fonts and CSS―under Appearance → Custom Design in your dashboard. Custom Design costs just $30 a year, and both features include a free preview so you can try them out first. Example of Custom Design landing screen. Fonts Made Super Easy The Font Editor provides a visual preview of your blog with over 50 gorgeous premium Typekit fonts―from foundries like Mark Simonson, exljbris, FontFont, and the League of Moveable Type―and allows you to easily modify the size and style of your fonts. It works with all themes, no coding skills required! Example of choosing fonts with the Font Editor. We worked closely with Typekit on this new tool―incorpor

WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate

WordPress 3.2 Release Candidate    阅读原文» The first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.2 is now available. An RC comes after the beta period and before final release. We think we're done, but with tens of millions of users, a variety of configurations, and thousands of plugins, it's possible we've missed something. So if you haven't tested WordPress 3.2 yet, now is the time! Please though, not on your live site unless you're extra adventurous. Things to keep in mind: With more than 350 tickets closed , there are plenty of changes. Plugin and theme authors, please test your plugins and themes now , so that if there is a compatibility issue, we can figure it out before the final release. Users are also encouraged to test things out. If you find problems, let your plugin/theme authors know so they can figure out the cause. Twenty Eleven isn’t quite at the release candidate stage. Contents may settle . If any known issues crop up, you’ll be able to find them

Your Own Domain Address on WordPress.com? Absolutely!

Your Own Domain Address on WordPress.com? Absolutely!    阅读原文» Here at Automattic we feel really lucky to be able to interact with so many WordPress.com users through our awesome Happiness Engineers in Support , meeting WordPress users and lovers at various global WordCamps , and even Matt runs into WordPress users when he’s on a plane (is there a better way to get Support? We think not. But let him sleep a little ). One of the most common questions we answer is, “ Can I have my own domain on WordPress.com? ” The answer to that question is a resounding YES ! We are happy to give you a free website at WordPress.com (something like anyaddress.wordpress.com ) but if you want to also use your own domain, you can do that very easily. You don’t need to create another site – you simply need the inexpensive Domain Mapping Upgrade . In layman’s terms, domain mapping just means pointing example.com to your anyaddress.wordpress.com site, so when your friends visit example.com they will s