Hello everybody! Right here’s a snapshot of a few of the glorious WordPress.com group recommendation, insights, and updates that we loved over the previous month.

What’s new

Introducing Your New Social Icons Widget

The Social Icons Widget lets you join your web site to your favourite social media networks. You may activate it by going to My Website → Customise → Widgets. Take a look at the full guide to using the new widget or simply watch the video above to be taught extra.

An All-New Media Library for the WordPress iOS App

In Could we launched a brand new media picker for Android iOS customers, and in June, we introduced a brand new media library within the 7.8 release of WordPress for iOS. It features a top-level part for every web site you handle. With one faucet from the small print menu, you may view all of your media, search, edit metadata, delete objects, and add new objects. How’s that for effectivity? Obtain the simple to make use of WordPress app for iOS and Android.

Designing for [X]: Visible artists

New Theme: AltoFocus

The AltoFocus theme contains a tiled format that’s designed to assist visible artists showcase their abilities. The grid routinely shifts to accommodate new posts, regardless of the display screen dimension. Attempt it out, depart a hyperlink to your AltoFocus-themed web site within the feedback, and inform us how effectively you suppose it reveals off your finest work.

In your toolbox: inspiration + insights

Blogging Made Easier: Five Tricks You Should Know

Leif Singer, a part of the design and analysis staff at WordPress.com, shared just a few options that streamline your publishing expertise, together with the way to simply add photographs to posts and reply shortly to feedback. We hope these tips enable you to accomplish your web site and running a blog targets.

101 Books to Dive Into This Summer

Illustration by Maya Sariahmed

TED Ideas (powered by WordPress.com VIP) compiled dozens of suggestions by TED audio system and revealed a summer season studying record to overcome all others. No matter your areas of curiosity, you’ll discover one thing glorious on this record.

Quotables: “We’re─or no less than I’m─geared up with this expansive psychological chest of drawers. Every drawer is full of recollections, or data. There are large drawers and small ones. A couple of have secret compartments, the place data could be hidden. When I’m writing, I can open them, extract the fabric I would like and add it to my story.” – Haruki Murakami’s Advice to Young Writers (Longreads).

Now following

WordPress.org’s new monthly updates, which has launched with just a few superior bulletins for June.

Photographer Sean Strecker’s new web site, strex.blog, reveals off works like this photo of a winter sunset overlooking Burleigh Beach.

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That’s all for now!

What did you like about your individual work in June? Remark with a hyperlink to a put up you’re happy with or one thing new you realized about designing your web site. Feeling motivated? Obtain the WordPress app on iOS and Android.

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