The Flickr widget makes it easy to show thumbnails of the latest pictures from your Flickr account.

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WordPress.com sends your published blog posts to several places to automatically promote them for you. For example, your posts end up in WordPress.com’s global tag pages, are sent out to many search engines via Ping-o-Matic!, and sitemaps pings notify search engines of new updates.

In addition to these built in features, you can also choose to send your posts to any of several third party services. Currently, WordPress.com Publicize supports Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo!.

Find out how it is done:  http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/

You can add any YouTube video to your site.  See this details here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/

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What is a shortcode?

A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Shortcode = shortcut.

Find out all the gory details to make your life easier: http://en.support.wordpress.com/shortcodes/

You can add a gallery to your post by uploading photos and inserting the gallery.  Find out more here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/

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Find a set of photos on flickr.  Click the slideshow link and then the share link.  Copy the embed code and paste it in the HTML view of the page.

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Want to have an Archive page of your post?  This is an easy one…. Continue reading →