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joi, 29 noiembrie 2012

How To Get People To Your Website

How To Get People To Your Website

New Themes: Watson, Simfo, and Publish

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 10:03 AM PST

Brace yourselves, new themes are coming. Today I’m pleased to announce the latest three additions to the ever-growing collection of themes here at WordPress.com.

First up is Watson, by The Theme Foundry.

Watson: Home Page

Inspired by the clean lines and bold strokes of a classic newspaper, Watson boasts a neatly organized front page layout and a pleasurable reading experience that was designed with writers in mind. It offers a beautiful featured slider for important posts, looks great on devices both big and small, and comes with a lovely custom widget that takes advantage of featured post thumbnails.

Watson is a premium upgrade for your blog; read more about its features on the Theme Showcase or dive right into previewing it on your blog from Appearance → Themes.

Our second treat for you today is Simfo, a theme that has a minimal, yet strong, aesthetic that’s embellished with subtle hints of grunge.

Simfo: Home Page

Designed by Themify, Simfo directs all focus to what matters most: your content; and it was built from the ground up to support screen sizes from small to large, ensuring that your site will look great for visitors on the go.

Simfo is a premium upgrade for your blog; read more about its features on the Theme Showcase or dive right into previewing it on your blog from Appearance → Themes.

Last, but certainly not least, is Publish, created by our very own Konstantin Kovshenin.

Publish: Home Page

Publish is a clean, minimal, responsive theme ideal for individual bloggers. One of its neat features is that it uses your Gravatar image as the blog’s header to make your site recognizable and unique. It’s also available for immediate download from WordPress.org.

Read more about its features on the Theme Showcase or dive right into previewing it on your blog from Appearance → Themes.

Upload and Edit Media Seamlessly on WordPress.com

Posted: 28 Nov 2012 07:00 PM PST

Uploading and editing media just got a whole lot better on WordPress.com. Check out our new Media Manager, designed to make it easier to upload images, audio, and video files to your site and edit their attributes on the fly. Let’s walk through how to add images to a new post on WordPress.com.

Within a new post, click on the Add Media button:

The Media Manager allows you to collect images to add to your post-in-progress. You can select a file you may have already uploaded to your Media Library, designate a URL from which to embed an image, drag and drop files into the browser window, or select files to upload from your computer:

Editing image attributes

Once you’ve uploaded the images, you can edit each image’s attributes from within the Media Manager, simply by selecting it. You can edit an image’s title, enter a caption and alt text, and/or edit display settings:

When you’ve got the details just right, click on the blue, Insert into post button on the bottom, right-hand side of the Media Manager to add your images to your post:

Creating a gallery is a snap

To create a gallery, select the images you wish to include:

Then, click on the Create a new gallery button in the bottom, right hand corner of the Media Manager:

On the following screen, you can edit descriptions. You can click and drag photos to re-order them as you see fit:

Here’s the new gallery in a published post:

Pretty nifty!

For our self-hosted friends running WordPress.org, Media Manager improvements will be available in WordPress 3.5, which rolls out on December 5th, 2012.
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