Tag: Admin Bar

The New Jetpack Search Add-On
As your website grows, it becomes challenging for visitors to find exactly what they need. Being prolific and publishing lots of posts and pages is a net positive for engaging and growing your audience, but it also means visitors may be more likely to find content that isn’t relevant to …
By WordPress Guru on October 9, 2020

A Look at How We Updated Fonts on WordPress.com
We recently updated WordPress.com’s fonts and wanted to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how we chose the list. Here’s an example of a few of them in use. We looked at several criteria when curating our selections to give your site’s visitors the best experience. First, we looked at …
By WordPress Guru on October 7, 2020

Say Hello to the WordPress Block Editor
On June 1 we’ll be retiring our older WordPress.com editor and transitioning to the more recent (and more powerful) WordPress block editor. Want to know how this may affect your site and what you can expect? Read on. If you’ve launched your WordPress.com site in the past year and a …
By WordPress Guru on May 18, 2020

Import Your WordPress Site to WordPress.com — Including Themes and Plugins
It’s been possible to export your posts, images, and other content to an export file, and then transfer this content into another WordPress site since the early days of WordPress. This basic WordPress import moved content, but didn’t include other important stuff like themes, plugins, users, or settings. Your imported …
By WordPress Guru on April 7, 2020

Turning a Page with Page Layouts
Need to add a new page to your site but don’t know where to start? Making a brand new site on WordPress.com and want to design a homepage quickly? There’s a new addition to the WordPress experience that’ll help with exactly that. Let’s take a look at Page Layouts! They’re …
By WordPress Guru on March 9, 2020

Improved Offline Publishing
The path to a better offline experience in our mobile apps.
By WordPress Guru on January 30, 2020

Publishing to WordPress from Bear Just Got Better
Sharing is a core part of the iOS experience, and WordPress is committed to helping people share their stories, products, or services freely and widely. So when the fine folks at Shiny Frog—makers of the excellent writing app Bear—asked for an easier way turn Bear notes into WordPress posts, we …
By WordPress Guru on May 13, 2019

Customize Your WordPress.com Dashboard
We’re happy to announce new improvements to your WordPress.com dashboard for a more accessible and customized experience. From your desktop, you can now customize your dashboard by choosing one of our two new color schemes, Classic Bright for a fresh modern feel and Classic Blue as the standard you’ve known …
By WordPress Guru on January 8, 2019

A New Way to Manage Your Pages on the WordPress Mobile Apps
An update to WordPress for iOS and Android.
By WordPress Guru on November 14, 2018

Upload Once, Blog Anywhere: Photos from Google
Wouldn’t it be great if you could browse, search, and insert photos from your Google account right to your blog posts and pages? Now you can.
By WordPress Guru on September 26, 2017