Archive for November, 2011
Over the years one of the most frequent requests on WordPress.com has been to allow bloggers to earn money from their blog through ads. We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn’t terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google’s AdSense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad. You pour a lot of time and effort into your blog and you deserve better.
Well we think we’ve cracked it, and we’re calling it WordAds.
Blogs are unique and they shouldn’t be treated like every other page on the internet. There are more than 50,000 WordPress-powered blogs coming online every day, and every time I explore them randomly I’m always surprised and delighted by how people are using the platform to express themselves.
As a WordPress user you’re breathing rarefied air on the internet: the Creators, the Independents. Creative minds aren’t satisfied being digital sharecroppers on someone else’s domain, and you want to carve out your own piece of the internet and have a space that you’re proud of because it’s so… you.
If you’re going to have advertising on your site, it darn well better be good, and beginning with our partnership with Federated Media we’re ready to start rolling out WordAds here on WordPress.com.
If the above is something you’d be interested in, fill out this form to let us know a bit about yourself.
Over the years one of the most frequent requests on WordPress.com has been to allow bloggers to earn money from their blog through ads. We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn’t terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google’s AdSense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad. You pour a lot of time and effort into your blog and you deserve better.
Well we think we’ve cracked it, and we’re calling it WordAds.
Blogs are unique and they shouldn’t be treated like every other page on the internet. There are more than 50,000 WordPress-powered blogs coming online every day, and every time I explore them randomly I’m always surprised and delighted by how people are using the platform to express themselves.
As a WordPress user you’re breathing rarefied air on the internet: the Creators, the Independents. Creative minds aren’t satisfied being digital sharecroppers on someone else’s domain, and you want to carve out your own piece of the internet and have a space that you’re proud of because it’s so… you.
If you’re going to have advertising on your site, it darn well better be good, and beginning with our partnership with Federated Media we’re ready to start rolling out WordAds here on WordPress.com.
If the above is something you’d be interested in, fill out this form to let us know a bit about yourself.
Cash games are arguably the best, most consistent method of making an online profit from poker. These 4 tips will give you the edge at the poker table, allowing you to win cash from poker players who are just ‘playing casually’. These tips are aimed at people looking to make money at the micro to low blind level tables (blinds lower than one dollar / pound).
1. Play tight! The first tip requires an exclamation mark, which must mean it’s important! Cash games have no incremental blind structure, meaning whatever you pay for your first blind is what you’ll be playing for the duration of your stay at that table (unlike poker tournaments where the blind levels increase). This means that you can just fold your trash hands over and over, waiting to catch a big hand and double up. There’s no point frittering your hard earned cash away on low-medium strength hands. Even if it is low stake poker you’re playing, to improve your game you must never risk your chips without the right risk:reward ratio.
2. Patience is a virtue. This saying is applicable for so many aspects of life, especially for online poker. When you first join an online poker table, you’ll be asked the question ‘post big blind’ which essentially means you pay a big blind out of turn, allowing you to start getting dealt cards straight away (if you don’t post big blind you wait until the big blind falls on you naturally). Don’t use this function, be patient. Wait until it’s your turn for the big blind and then start playing, staking chips that you don’t need to is a bad idea, it sounds obvious but many poker players post the big blind out of turn.
3. Unleash the beast. Once you’ve involved yourself in a hand, it’s time to engage your second personality. Your first personality should be the tight player, who’s folding a lot of hands and rarely getting involved. Once you’ve involved yourself you must protect those chips, and make sure you win. Time to switch to personality number two, the beast! If it’s your turn to act and no one else has bet, ALWAYS make a continuation bet. The continuation bet is possibly the most consistent way of winning a hand. Even if your opponent has hit a hand and you haven’t, you’ve got a tight image so they will give you respect – and hand over their chips to you.
4. Know thy odds. Maths. That’s essentially what poker is. If you know your chances of hitting a hand which will make you win, you can assess whether any decision will be profitable. Even if your maths fails you on one occasion (someone sucks out on you), you know that over a long period of time the averages will become more and more accurate – you’ll be the winner in the long run.
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It’s that time of the year again, and we decided to take care of all our users whether they feel like lining up in the cold to take advantage of today’s bargains or not.
This year’s offer is about two upgrades that first saw the light of day during the past twelve months: Custom Design and Premium Themes.
For the next 24 hours if you pick up any of our Premium Themes we’ll throw in a totally free one year subscription to the Custom Design Upgrade, which would usually cost you $30. Depending on the theme you choose, that’s between 30% and 60% of the Premium Theme’s value.
Don’t miss this great occasion to stand out from the crowd, by adding a great Premium Theme to your site, and customizing its fonts and CSS to make it truly yours.
If you already have a Custom Design subscription, no problem, we’ll add an extra year to it for free.
If you’re not sure on what Premium Themes and the Custom Design upgrade actually do:
Premium Themes: feature detailed designs, exciting options for customization, and exclusive support directly from the theme authors themselves.
Custom Design: easily customize the fonts in your theme, and dive into CSS to make all the presentational changes you desire.
It’s only one day, it happens today, but the gift is yours for one year.
Don’t wait anymore to browse our Premium Themes collection.
It’s that time of the year again, and we decided to take care of all our users whether they feel like lining up in the cold to take advantage of today’s bargains or not.
This year’s offer is about two upgrades that first saw the light of day during the past twelve months: Custom Design and Premium Themes.
For the next 24 hours if you pick up any of our Premium Themes we’ll throw in a totally free one year subscription to the Custom Design Upgrade, which would usually cost you $30. Depending on the theme you choose, that’s between 30% and 60% of the Premium Theme’s value.
Don’t miss this great occasion to stand out from the crowd, by adding a great Premium Theme to your site, and customizing its fonts and CSS to make it truly yours.
If you already have a Custom Design subscription, no problem, we’ll add an extra year to it for free.
If you’re not sure on what Premium Themes and the Custom Design upgrade actually do:
Premium Themes: feature detailed designs, exciting options for customization, and exclusive support directly from the theme authors themselves.
Custom Design: easily customize the fonts in your theme, and dive into CSS to make all the presentational changes you desire.
It’s only one day, it happens today, but the gift is yours for one year.
Don’t wait anymore to browse our Premium Themes collection.
I’m happy to introduce two new cool and colorful themes: Shaan and Adventure Journal.
Shaan is a smooth-talking theme, quietly delivering a cool, casual backdrop for your content. It’s perfect for writers who like a calm, quiet tone to their blog. If you use images to illustrate your writing, you’ll like how Shaan displays featured images in two sizes: small in archives and search results, and large for sticky posts on your home page as well as on single posts and pages.
Example of Shaan in action.
Designed by Specky Geek, Shaan is available today in your WordPress.com dashboard and directly from the Theme Showcase.
Have a well-traveled blog? Adventure Journal is a natural fit for highlighting your adventures. A theme for your next trip. Or your next blog.
Example of the Adventure Journal front page.
Featuring a warm wood background, a header image for your favorite photo, widget areas styled on curling paper, and a crinkled sticky post area for those important notes—this theme is full of rustic charm. Customize it with layout options, sidebar and footer widgets, and more. See all the options and details on the Theme Showcase.
Designed by Contexture International, Adventure Journal is available in your dashboard and directly from the Theme Showcase.
Also… Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you gobble these themes up.
I’m happy to introduce two new cool and colorful themes: Shaan and Adventure Journal.
Shaan is a smooth-talking theme, quietly delivering a cool, casual backdrop for your content. It’s perfect for writers who like a calm, quiet tone to their blog. If you use images to illustrate your writing, you’ll like how Shaan displays featured images in two sizes: small in archives and search results, and large for sticky posts on your home page as well as on single posts and pages.
Example of Shaan in action.
Designed by Specky Geek, Shaan is available today in your WordPress.com dashboard and directly from the Theme Showcase.
Have a well-traveled blog? Adventure Journal is a natural fit for highlighting your adventures. A theme for your next trip. Or your next blog.
Example of the Adventure Journal front page.
Featuring a warm wood background, a header image for your favorite photo, widget areas styled on curling paper, and a crinkled sticky post area for those important notes—this theme is full of rustic charm. Customize it with layout options, sidebar and footer widgets, and more. See all the options and details on the Theme Showcase.
Designed by Contexture International, Adventure Journal is available in your dashboard and directly from the Theme Showcase.
Also… Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you gobble these themes up.
Today, we’d like to give a warm welcome to Google Knol users who are migrating to WordPress.com. Begun in 2007, the Google Knol project has provided people in many fields with a place to share their knowledge and expertise with the world using a platform designed for scholarly authoring and publishing.
Starting today, those same authors can move their articles and collaborative journals to WordPress—and they have the power to choose whether to move to a self-hosted WordPress installation powered by the freely-available, open-source Annotum themes, or to have their Annotum-powered site hosted for free here on WordPress.com. Knol will slowly shut down over the next year, and we’ve worked closely with Google, Solvitor LLC, and Crowd Favorite to make this transition as simple as possible.
We here at WordPress.com are thrilled to provide an easy, fast way for Knol authors to move to their new homes without the need for configuring their own installation. And WordPress.com users who would like to start new sites powered by the Annotum platform can activate one of the two new Annotum-enabled themes on new blogs and get started right away. It’s yet another way the WordPress platform and WordPress.com are enabling the democratization of publishing and sharing of information with the world.
For more detailed information on the Annotum Project, please visit the official site. If you’re moving to WordPress.com and have questions about the process, please see our step-by-step guide and our list of frequently asked questions.
Today, we’d like to give a warm welcome to Google Knol users who are migrating to WordPress.com. Begun in 2007, the Google Knol project has provided people in many fields with a place to share their knowledge and expertise with the world using a platform designed for scholarly authoring and publishing.
Starting today, those same authors can move their articles and collaborative journals to WordPress—and they have the power to choose whether to move to a self-hosted WordPress installation powered by the freely-available, open-source Annotum themes, or to have their Annotum-powered site hosted for free here on WordPress.com. Knol will slowly shut down over the next year, and we’ve worked closely with Google, Solvitor LLC, and Crowd Favorite to make this transition as simple as possible.
We here at WordPress.com are thrilled to provide an easy, fast way for Knol authors to move to their new homes without the need for configuring their own installation. And WordPress.com users who would like to start new sites powered by the Annotum platform can activate one of the two new Annotum-enabled themes on new blogs and get started right away. It’s yet another way the WordPress platform and WordPress.com are enabling the democratization of publishing and sharing of information with the world.
For more detailed information on the Annotum Project, please visit the official site. If you’re moving to WordPress.com and have questions about the process, please see our step-by-step guide and our list of frequently asked questions.
We want everyone on WordPress.com to be able to find the best theme possible for their blog. Something beautiful, amazing, and cool. A theme that makes you want to jump up, run your laptop next door, and show your neighbor your awesome blog. That’s why we love bringing you so many new themes, why we have over 150 themes for you to choose from, and why we have even more on the way. It’s also why every day you let us know different ways we could make all our existing themes just a little bit better. You contact us in support, add your suggestions in the forums, comment here, and — of course! — blog about it.
Because of all that we took as many of those little bits as we could and made our incredible collection of 150-plus themes even better for you.
More Custom Headers and More Color Schemes
We know how much you love customizing your themes and making them your own so we made sure that our best, our most popular, and our most beautiful themes let you do just that. The Custom Header Image feature lets you quickly add your own personal stamp on a theme. We went and added it to themes missing it that could really use it and use it well. You’ll now find that it’s available in themes like Notepad, Titan, Simpla, Grid Focus, and Chaos Theory.
And if you’re using the Modularity Lite theme, Inuit Types, Spectrum, Bouquet, or Vigilance you have new bonus color schemes to choose from. Coraline alone got five brand new color schemes!
Make sure you try out all the new design possibilities these color schemes bring to Custom Design.
Even More Theme Improvements
There were even more theme improvements. They were slightly smaller but good things come in small packages. Things like improving the custom header feature in our most popular theme, Twenty Ten. You can now change your header text color or even hide it altogether with a visit to Appearance → Themes and just a few clicks.
Sometimes less can be more
We also added Post Format support to the Spectrum theme. There are more customization options in the Structure theme, Misty Look, and Fruit Shake. Ocean Mist has customizable Featured Images for each post’s header image. Our most popular themes now have better comment labeling when comments are turned off and better author highlighting for multiple author blogs — making them perfect for blogs that are more like small business sites or magazines. And — and there are even more theme improvements that were done. Too many to list here!
We’ll keep on bringing you new themes. Keep on letting us know what you’d like to see improved with them. 
