Freshly Pressed is a curated collection of standout blog posts, handpicked by the WordPress.com editorial team. This guide shares how you can read creative, thoughtful, and well-crafted content from across the WordPress community and get your own posts featured in Freshly Pressed.
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Ask our AI assistantFreshly Pressed showcases posts that entertain, enlighten, and inspire. Unlike algorithmic feeds that prioritize engagement metrics, Freshly Pressed features content because it’s genuinely good—thoughtful, well-crafted, and worth your time.
You’ll find a travel blogger sharing stories from the road alongside a hobbyist explaining sourdough science, a poet publishing for the first time, or a photographer sharing their latest work. It’s a diverse mix of voices and styles from across the WordPress community.
Freshly Pressed is available to:
- WordPress.com sites: All sites hosted on WordPress.com are eligible.
- Self-hosted WordPress sites: Sites connected through the Jetpack plugin are also eligible.
You can access Freshly Pressed content in the Discover section of the Reader. Look for the Freshly Pressed tab to browse the curated collection alongside your followed sites.
The WordPress.com team curates Freshly Pressed. There’s no specific process to submit a post to Freshly Pressed. When you publish a post on a WordPress.com site, you’re automatically eligible to be featured.
You can increase your chances of being selected by following these best practices:
- Publish original content: Create your own work and give proper credit when referencing others. Use quotation marks or blockquotes when quoting, and include links to articles you mention.
- Embrace your voice and style: WordPress is a diverse global community. We consider personal musings, essays, fiction, poetry, comics, longreads, and more in various styles from subtle prose to opinionated commentaries to speculative fiction and academic research.
- Use images when possible: Add a featured image to your post, which creates a visually engaging element in the Reader. Find free images and media for your website.
- Make it easy to read: Break up your text and keep paragraphs short, and avoid distracting elements (like poor contrast colors and busy backgrounds). Check for typos.
- Add relevant meta data: Add relevant tags and categories, and craft clear headlines.
We typically feature an author at most once, so more creators have the opportunity to be discovered.
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For inspiration, look at the other blogs featured in Freshly Pressed.
