Colors and Lines: A Quick Customization Roundup

From header images to custom widgets, these posts will help you achieve the blog design you’re after.

Quick Tip: Give Your Blog a Seasonal Facelift

Refresh your blog’s look to refresh your motivation! A change of season is a great time to give your design a spit-shine.

Kind and Friendly Formatting

Pity your poor readers.

Perennial Favorites: All about Post Formats

Post formats, built into many themes, enhance specific types of content on your blog.

How to Choose the Right Featured Image for Your Post

A well-matched image goes a long way toward setting the right tone for your content.

Perennial Favorites: Working With Custom Menus

Creating and organizing menus is a common stumbling block for bloggers new and old — it’s definitely worth revisiting this helpful road map to menu success from Happiness Engineer Andrea Bishop.

Did You Miss This: Awesome (Free) Theme Options

Did you know there are plenty of ways you can customize your free theme, for free? Read all about it.

Heads Up: The Daily Post is Getting a Makeover

We’re about to make a whole lot of changes, and we want you to be the first to see ’em.

Photography 201: Choosing a Photoblogging Theme, Part II

Get inspired by these photoblogging themes.

Photography 201: Choosing a Photoblogging Theme, Part I

In our Photography 101 series, we covered the fundamentals of photography and learned how to use your camera and take…

Everything You Wanted to Know About Sliders (and Then Some)

Earlier today on The WordPress.com Blog, we explored how to make your blog more dynamic with sliders, from unobtrusive boxes…

Should I Learn CSS?

Anyone who creates a WordPress.com account can set up a blog or website for free, and we’ve emphasized here, and…