How To Add Estimated Reading Time To WordPress Posts (With PHP)
The new blogging trend is letting your readers know how long a post will take them…
Helping Creativity Happen from a Distance
Design is visual and tactile. It plays with the form and function of objects and systems…
Design leader John Maeda on how to foster creative collaboration on distributed teams
Read more about John Maeda in “Helping Creativity Happen from a Distance.” Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts,…
Four New WordPress.com Color Schemes
We heard you: You want bolder and brighter colors on WordPress.com. Today we’re bringing your WordPress.com…
More Stats, Better Stats, Faster Stats: A Whole New Mobile Experience
If you’re like me, Stats is one of your most-visited screens in your WordPress app —…
Engineering with Empathy
When you supervise a team of engineers hailing from over 40 countries, the way Upwork’s Senior…
How to do HR in a Blended Company
Upwork is the largest freelancing platform, operating across 180 countries. It’s a company that deals in…
Upwork’s Zoe Harte and Han Yuan on Managing People and Products in a Distributed Company
Read more about Zoe Harte in “How to do HR in a Blended Company” and about…
[Case Study] How Nodored streamlined their customer support with Heroic KB
In this case study, we’ll take a deeper look at Nodored’s experience with our Heroic Knowledge…
Medium vs WordPress: Which One Should You Choose?
Trying to decide between Medium vs WordPress for your blog or website? Both platforms make it…
On Building Automattic
Launching the Distributed podcast has given me space to reflect on the last 14 years at…
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on building a fully distributed company
Read Matt’s history of Automattic: “On Building Automattic.” Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS, or wherever…
Want to See a More Diverse WordPress Contributor Community? So Do We.
The mission of WordPress is to democratize publishing: to make it possible for anyone — no…
Is remote work ‘Bull***t’?
We believe that distributed work is great for many reasons, and will eventually replace most traditional…
VC Arianna Simpson on Distributed Work and the Blockchain
Read more about Arianna Simpson in “Is Remote Work Bull***t?” Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RSS,…
Celebrating Pride Month with WordPress.com
Happy Pride Month! My favorite parts about celebrating this month are the stories shared from LGBTQ+…
Pluto VR Cofounder John Vechey on the Virtual Office
Read more about John Vechey in “For Years, VR Promised to Replace the Office. Could It…
For Years, VR Promised to Replace the Office. Could It Really Happen Now?
Those of us who work on distributed teams have become accustomed to a workplace tool that,…
5 Best WordPress Resume Themes (Curated and Compared)
Looking for the best WordPress resume themes to showcase your experience to potential employers or clients?…
‘The American Dream Is Broken, and I Think We Have a Shot at Fixing It.’
Stephane Kasriel, the CEO of Upwork, thinks that work, as we think of it today, is…
Upwork’s Stephane Kasriel on Fixing the American Dream
Read more about Stephane Kasriel in “The American Dream Is Broken, and I Think We Have…