A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com:

At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, on a site that’s entirely yours.

If you’ve been thinking about starting your own small, private social network with friends or family, or you want a space to post thoughts freely, or to import your historical posts from Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky without handing your words over to someone else’s platform, this one’s for you.

I wonder how close this is to how I have effectively set this blog up to work – which is dominated by short form, link based posts these days.

Via Dave Winer.

Update: Manton Reece’s take:

In terms of the flow of the posting interface, what WordPress has done here is pretty interesting. It’s a very basic, stripped down interface, clearly inspired by Twitter / X.

The downside to that approach is that it is disconnected from the traditional WordPress admin interface. If you go back to the WordPress admin, you’ll see the same posts but it feels a little out of place. For example, you’ll notice that short, title-less posts suddenly have a title.