If blogging is all about self-expression, why do so many blogs look so blah? Most free blog services offer only a handful of designs, giving you few options for personalizing your site. Most beginner ...

If you plan on running a blog, chances are you’ll use WordPress as your hosting site of choice because it’s so popular. WordPress offers thousands of free and paid templates for blogs. While the ...

No matter how fancy a blog you have, if you don’t write consistently and with a focused mindset, there’s no way anybody will pay attention. With this in mind, let’s think about the free options out ...

You took the leap and installed WordPress to host your own blog because you want complete control over how it looks and works. Now, it's time to power it up, lock it ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. When it's time to design a ...

WordPress has just announced a partnership with Federated Media to allow bloggers to monetize their free, hosted blogs on WordPress.com with ads. It’s calling the new program WordAds. While Google ...

In its own blog on blogs (metablog?), Web monitoring company Pingdom is reporting the results of a study with news that WordPress is used by 48% of the top 100 blogs worldwide. The group increased ...

At the heart of every WordPress blog is a MySQL database that contains all of its posts and settings. It’s a good idea to set up this database on your host server before you start working with ...