Hello.
There was some confusion about the sidebar widgets displayed in your blogs and we made some changes.
Some themes had default widgets when no widgets were selected in the Appearance->Widgets menu, and you couldn’t remove them, because they were hardcoded. So, we decided to remove the defaults per themes and this way every theme works the [...]

Hello.
Just to inform you that we updated the Flickr widget, and you’ll have to update your settings as it gets the photostream with a different and better method. Just pop by “Appearance”->”Widgets” and check your settings.
Besides that, there is a new theme available F01.01. Hope you enjoy it, and it also comes with various colorschemes.

Hey there.
The Blog.com platform keeps improving, trying to fill out the most requested features from our users.
We’ve just released the possibility to add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!
This way people can easily share your interesting [...]

Hello.
As you can surely notice, we’ve been releasing some new themes in the past weeks. Namely the great themes by the company Woo Themes, fitted to Blog.com with increased customization.
These themes bring several colorschemes each, so it’s like having 5 or 6 themes in one. Oh, and you can also upload your own header pictures [...]

Hey bloggers!
Another anticipated feature is now available at Blog.com! You can now search the Blog.com community blogs, by using the search bar in the homepage, or by going to the search page directly.
We expect to tweak this blog search a bit in the future, but you can start looking for topics, new blogs and what’s [...]

Hello bloggers!
After many requests from you, and as promised, Blog.com is now starting to provide more theme customization options. If you choose the theme “Vigilance” (the default one), and go to “Theme Options” you can now upload your own header image, as well as change the colors of some of your blog’s elements.
This is just [...]

Blog.com now supports integration with Google Analytics for our users to track their blog stats.
Whilst we’re developing an own plugin, that will show the blog stats on your dashboard, as well as the possibility to add statistics widgets to your sidebar, Blog.com is giving you the chance to add your Google Analytics tracker to your [...]

Blog.com will be offline early next wednesday. We will stop the systems at 00:00 UTC. The downtime should last fifteen minutes.
We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will be distributing database loads, working on the path that leads to never needing to stop the system for database operations.
If, by chance, you get caught editing a [...]

Hi!
As you know, Blog.com offers you a wide range of features and lets you create your blogs for free. We are commited to provide as much free features as possible under an advertisement supported model.
However, we just released a set of paid premium features for those users who want to boost their blogs . They [...]

Hello!
We released some new widgets for you to use in your blog’s sidebar.
Now, you can show your Flickr images feed, del.icio.us links and follow somebody’s Twitter. Plus, we added a Meebo widget so that you can chat with your friends using the blog’s sidebar.
We are currently developing other widgets, so expect some more releases soon.
Happy [...]