August 3, 2009 — The Blog Stats Widget for WordPress.com displays the total hits on your blog in its sidebar. Read more about it on our dedicated WordPress.com support page.

August 3, 2009 — The Authors widget for WordPress.com displays a list or partial list of authors in the sidebar of your blog. Find out more on our dedicated WordPress.com support page.

August 3, 2009 — The Archives widget displays a month-by-month list in the sidebar of your blog that your readers can use to navigate your content. Find out more on our dedicated WordPress.com support page.

August 3, 2009 — The Akismet widget shows a simple counter for the amount of spam caught by the free Akismet service. Find out more on the dedicated WordPress.com support page.

July 29, 2009 — Creating navigation which reflects the items you want in the order you want can seem a little tricky, but Scott Ellis demonstrates a simple solution that also provides great flexibility for adding future content without having to redo what you have done.

July 26, 2009 — This short introductory video introduces the concept behind and quick-start setup of Gravatar – a free service designed to make your life easier, by associating a free-floating avatar with one or more of your email addresses. Get your own Gravatar via your WordPress.com profile page, or Gravatar.com

July 24, 2009 — This short video introduces you to adding and managing widgets on your WordPress.com blog.

July 24, 2009 — In this short video for self-hosted WordPress blogs, we walk you through the process of adding Twitter updates to the sidebar of your widget-enabled theme, using the Wickett Twitter plugin

July 22, 2009 — This video walks you through a quick way to add your latest Twitter tweets to the sidebar of your blog, via the built in Twitter Widget. For self-hosted blogs, check out this video

July 22, 2009 — If you’d like to bring the content of your WordPress blog into your Facebook notes stream, this quick tutorial will show you how.