Category Archives: Blog

When designing a website, it’s easy (and fun!) to focus on layout and content. But one crucial element that often gets overlooked is color. Color plays a vital role in web accessibility, ensuring that all users—regardless of visual impairments or color vision deficiencies—can easily navigate and engage with your content.  Proper color contrast is key […]

You may have noticed things look a little different around here. Here’s how we redesigned our blog (and how you can redesign yours too). Why Did We Redesign Our Blog? A blog is your home on the Internet. Like all homes, they eventually need to be tidied up. That was certainly the case for this […]

The internet moves fast. Platforms rise and fall in popularity, websites disappear, links go bad, and domains lapse. Some things shouldn’t disappear and deserve to last. At WordPress.com, we believe in building for the long term. That’s why we’re introducing 100-Year Domains and relaunching our 100-Year Plan—two powerful ways to secure your digital legacy for […]

Since the dawn of time (or at least since the dawn of the Internet), business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs have been asking this question: Do I really need a website, especially if I’m already on social media? The answer is a resounding “yes.” Let us explain why (and how you can get started). 1. A […]

Header tags are one of the most fundamental elements of a well-structured blog post. They guide readers through your content, improve accessibility, and help search engines understand your content’s structure. But using headings properly requires more than just adding a few bold titles to your text. In this post, we’ll walk you through how to […]

How exactly do you increase your website traffic? It’s a more complex question than it might seem on the surface. With the advancement of AI in search results, shifting social media algorithms, and other factors that impact websites, attracting visitors is challenging. Fortunately, it’s not impossible. Whether you have a brand-new site or one that’s […]

Why should you invest time in learning how to increase blog traffic? Well, imagine this: you toiled away for months to start your blog. You agonized over the name, carefully picked a theme, wrote your best copy, and launched it with all the giddiness of a high schooler asking their crush to prom. And then—crickets. […]

It looks like you’re here because you want to learn how to create a website, and maybe you find the task ahead a bit scary, overwhelming, and unsettling. That’s understandable. Making a website can seem like a big undertaking, especially if you’ve been told that you need special skills for it, like knowing how to […]

When social media platforms change their algorithms, make decisions that conflict with your values, or get shut down, it can leave users like yourself in a tough spot. Sometimes, your only choices are to stick around anyway (if the service is still live), or lose your hard-earned following and content. Enter Bluesky, a Twitter-like platform […]

As some of you have already noticed, we rolled out a significant update to our user interface over the weekend! The updated interface is the latest release in a larger project to bring the experience on WordPress.com much closer to a “core” WordPress experience. You’ll have already seen big changes to our navigation and settings […]