1. Customization and Flexibility

2. Hosting Opportunities

3. To customize the tiny image that people see in their address bar when they visit your blog, upload a blavatar.

4. The more tag allows you to display excerpts of your posts on your main posts page, instead of revealing the entire post.

5. To expand the text editor and hide the modules on the publishing screen, enable Distraction Free Writing.

6. Reproduce fully-functioning tweets — not just static screenshots of tweets — in posts, pages, and even comments with Twitter Embeds.

7. You can customize your post and page slugs, which can be handy when you want to create a URL that’s easier to remember (it’s also a good way to make posts search-friendly). Note that if you change a post slug, the old link will still work.

8. Reproduce fully-functioning tweets — not just static screenshots of tweets — in posts, pages, and even comments with Twitter Embeds.