Dracula – Ir de Compras Online

Novedosa idea para celebrar Halloween

Origen: Concurso en Rumanía para dormir en ataúd al estilo Drácula

Supercharge Your Social Media With a New Link in Bio Page

A .link domain name and Link in Bio page supercharges your social media by giving you a place to host all of your links.

Say Hello to the New Jetpack Mobile App

Put WordPress in your pocket with the new Jetpack mobile app.

Introducing Blaze: A New Way to Ignite Your Growth on WordPress.com

Introducing Blaze. Turn your site content into clean, compelling ads that run across millions of sites on WordPress.com and Tumblr.

Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for January 2023

Five beautiful new WordPress.com themes, including our new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Three.

Welcome Gumroad Merchants: An Easy Path Over to WordPress.com

If the recent Gumroad price change announcement has you considering a migration from Gumroad to WooCommerce, we’re here to welcome you with open arms. Changing eCommerce platforms may seem like a big hurdle to overcome, but we have an expert team in place to help you migrate your Gumroad store …

An Easier Way to Share Progress on Your Website

We're excited to announce Site Preview Links, a feature that will let you easily share a "Coming Soon" Business or eCommerce site.

A New Chapter for Video Uploads on WordPress.com

We're excited to announce that you can now add chapter breaks to VideoPress uploads.

Write and Publish Your Newsletter on WordPress.com

WordPress.com has built-in features to send new posts out as an email newsletter – automatically.

Maximize Your Site’s Performance by Choosing Your Primary Data Center

Our best-in-class hosting just got better: you can now choose your primary data center.

State of the Word 2022

It’s almost time for State of the Word 2022! Join us on December 15 at 1pm ET.

Startup founders: hire me to be your CEO

An open letter. You should make me the CEO of your company. I promise to upset your investors in ways that are really, really, funny. It’s okay to upset investors because they’re not people, just...

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In 2020 what we need is utopia, but even Star Trek is jaded

I caught up on Star Trek: Picard. My main thought: What is the point of western civilization if even Star Trek can’t be hopeful? Star Trek was, at some point, about a future where humanity...

Justin Pot

Facebook moderators miss key directives because the news feed is terrible

Many current social problems—not all, but many—can be traced back to our collective decision to prioritize #engagement in the systems we use to communicate with each other. Facebook’s newsfeed is the most prominent example of...

Justin Pot

There are tiny hippos living in your house (and other thoughts)

All these years later I still think about house hippos once a month or so. Confused? So was I, as a kid, seeing this PSA for the first time. The footage looked so…real. I couldn’t...

Justin Pot

Does the decline of local journalism explain declining trust in government?

Calling the government useless only works if you take for granted all the many ways public employees make modern life possible. Officials doing their jobs are the reason we have fresh water and roads to...

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Facebook throws pocket change at local news outlets, expects gratitude

Facebook killed local newspapers by sucking up all the revenue that used to pay for the person who’d sit in on council meetings and spell your nephews’ name incorrectly. Now they’re starting to feel bad...

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Trump’s Border Wall Will Cost 54 Bridges To Nowhere

Let's continue this extremely scientific analysis by comparing the two projects.

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Learn from this, Canada.

Canada's the shining beacon on a hill now, the only Western power that believes in multiculturalism.

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The First Canadian President!

I bought into part of the birther narrative, and didn’t even realize it. You probably did too. We all knew the birthers were crazy, because Obama wasn’t born in Kenya. But not one of us...

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On the shutdown: call out bullshit, then question your own.

As you know by now the US government’s been held hostage by right-wing extremists. These people thought Romney was going to win in a landslide, so reality isn’t their forte. We should absolutely call them...

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