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WordPress 6.6 Is Here
A few times a year, the WordPress open source software gets a major update, providing users with new capabilities, regular refinements, and important bug fixes. With hundreds of fixes and...
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Customizable Footer Credits Are Here
From the earliest days of WordPress.com, the bottom of every site on our platform has featured a default phrase in the footer credit area. Today, we’re handing the reigns over to you: every website...
View ArticleAutomattic for Agencies x Endoh Collaborative: A Match Made in WordPress Heaven
Endoh Collaborative is blazing a unique and powerful trail as a queer-owned, feminist digital agency. Their aim is to create effective, engaging, and accessible websites and visual brands to help...
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Why We’re Partnering With Perplexity
One of our key values at Automattic is that access to knowledge, software, and media is for everyone, not just the gatekeepers. That’s why we’ve built our company on the foundation of open source...
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Building Studio in Public: Using WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS in our...
At WordPress.com, our goal is to provide the best tools for WordPress developers and agencies. We built Studio for that reason. Our free local WordPress development environment launched a few months...
View ArticleWelcome to the Fediverse Files: What Is the Fediverse?
You’ve probably seen it on social media and in headlines around the web in the last few years: the fediverse. But what is it, really? A Boba Fett theme park? A Kevin Federline production? Some sort of...
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Clearer Writing at Your Fingertips: Introducing Write Brief with AI (Beta)
At WordPress.com, writing isn’t just a task. It’s how we think. Automattic is a globally distributed company, which means our work is almost always done asynchronously. For us, written communication...
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Beyond Avatars: How Gravatar is Transforming Online Identity
Gravatar, short for Globally Recognized Avatar, is a powerful service from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. For over two decades, Gravatar has been the driving force behind billions of...
View ArticleThe Fediverse Files: ActivityPub Interview with Evan Prodromou
In this episode of the Fediverse Files, Doc Pop talks with ActivityPub co-creator Evan Prodromou. ActivityPub is a fediverse technology that’s akin to what RSS is for podcasts and blog feeds; it’s the...
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Move to WordPress.com, and We’ll Handle the Migration for Free
If your WordPress website is hosted somewhere other than WordPress.com, we’d love for you to ask one simple question: Why? Maybe you started there because of a stellar pricing deal on hosting and...
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How We Built It: Beeper’s New Blog
Automattic recently welcomed Beeper, an all-in-one messaging app, to our umbrella of life-improving apps. (If you haven’t yet, check out Day One, Pocket Casts, and Tumblr, too!) Since Beeper joined...
View ArticleThe Fediverse Files: Making Social Media Fun Again
In this episode of the Fediverse Files, Doc Pop talks with Bart Decrem, the co-creator of Mammoth, an open source Mastodon app for iOS. Doc and Bart discuss how the walled gardens of modern social...
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Building Studio in Public: Maintaining High Performance in Our Local...
We’re back with Part 2 of our “Building Studio in Public” series! Today, we’re diving into the challenges we faced while optimizing Studio’s performance. This post will be especially valuable if...
View ArticleThe Fediverse Files: The Magic of Federation
Remember when commenting on blogs and interacting with other commenters was one of the core pieces of enjoying the web? Matthias Pfefferle is making commenting cool again with ActivityPub for...
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Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for August 2024
The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Check out the latest themes in our library, including great options for dog lovers, engaged couples, and...
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Developer Q&A: Dika Fei of Jelly Pixel Studio
Dika Fei, like most founders, had a couple ideas that failed before hitting just the right note when he started his web development company, Jelly Pixel Studio. With a team of seven, Jelly Pixel...
View ArticleThe Secrets of One of the World’s Largest Ad-Free Blogs
Since moving PostSecret to WordPress.com in 2013, Frank Warren’s iconic platform has empowered millions to share their secrets in a safe place. In the last ten years, that simple mission has propelled...
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Developer Q&A: John Kostak of Web Dev USA
John Kostak has been building websites for longer than most social media networks have even been around. So splashy features don’t interest him much—he’s far more into performance, reliability, and...
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WordPress.com and Developers: Roadmap Update
When I stepped in to run WordPress.com while Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg was on sabbatical, my mission was to make WordPress.com the best and fastest host for WordPress developers and agencies. We...
View ArticleHow to Connect Your WordPress Site to the Fediverse
You created your website for a reason. Whether it’s showing off your art, passing on family recipes, or selling boutique high-performance yo-yos. (That may or may not be Doc Pop’s example.) You...
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