Launch a Design Career Webinar Summit
When I was growing up, I loved doodling with neon gel pens, creating trifold poster board projects (glue sticks, for the win!), and outlining my friends’ names with Mr.…
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2 Ways To Safely Customize Your WordPress Site Without A Child Theme
This year (2016) I gave a talk at WordCamp San Diego as part of the Beginners’ Bootcamp, entitled “Customizing Without Hacking”. It was an introduction to best practices for customizing WordPress without doing anything that will break your site or make it a nightmare to maintain.…
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15 Things You Should Know Before Learning to Code Online
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One of the coolest things about tech skills is that you can learn them from just about anywhere, from weekend workshops to online coding bootcamps.…
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Improve Customer Service with a Powerful Knowledge Base
Customer service is at the forefront of your company. By providing a medium for your customers to interact with your brand, you put yourself in a position that necessitates extra attention and dedication – customer service can be a double-edged sword.…
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15 Reasons Your Career is Stalling Out
You were on track. You landed that entry-level job, a couple years later you got a promotion, and then…nothing. Your career just stalled.
It leaves you feeling totally stranded.…
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Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites
For more than a decade, the word “blog” has been synonymous with “your home on the web.” And since 2005, WordPress.com has been proud to help you create a unique space that is all yours.…
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Two New WordPress.com Bloggers on ‘Diving into the Giant Pool of the Blogosphere’
Every day, people from across the globe start their own websites on WordPress.com to share everything from their latest thoughts on current events to family recipes passed down through several generations.…
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Quick Start Guide to Site Publisher Templates | For Hosting Providers and Resellers | cPanel Blog
Many end-users are looking for a simple way of getting a functional site online as quickly as possible. In our latest release we introduced Site Publisher, a tool that can give your customers a live site in just a few clicks. …
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13 Common Fears of Tech Beginners, and How to Overcome Them
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Transitioning careers can be scary. Okay, terrifying. When I—a liberal arts major—started teaching myself how to code, I fully expected that I wouldn’t be good at it.…
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Find Free Advice for Your Cash-Strapped Startup With These 7 Techniques
When you’re starting a business, every penny counts. Stretching your venture capital effectively can mean the difference between success and failure during those critical first years.…
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Error Pages, A Hidden Branding Opportunity | cPanel Blog
Let’s face it, links break, servers go down, pages go MIA and somehow all your web visitors manage to land on the dreaded error page. Eek!…
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Four Tips From Seasoned Bloggers
Some of the best blogging advice we hear is from you. On Discover, we publish interviews and profiles of bloggers around the world, who also impart their own tips on how they’ve gotten the most out of WordPress.com.…
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Infographic: 23 Quick and Easy LinkedIn Updates to Get Hired Now!
Employers in many industries (including tech) are suspicious of people who have limited professional presence online. Think about it—if I’m hiring to fill a tech role but a quick Google search reveals nothing but a locked-down, completely private Facebook profile, am I really going to consider the applicant an expert?…
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New Themes: Affinity and Shoreditch
I’m happy to introduce two new themes in our collection: Affinity and Shoreditch.
Affinity
Affinity, designed by yours truly, is a classic one-page theme designed with weddings and family announcements in mind.…
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¿Habla Español? Love Helping Others? Apply to Work with Us!
Karen Arnold, Deborah Beckett, Erica Varlese, and Pam Kocke work on the Happiness Hiring team at Automattic. They hire new Happiness Engineers who support users on WordPress.com…
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WHM Features You Should Be Using | cPanel Blog
Let’s be honest, cPanel is a great tool. However, with all the buttons and knobs, features and widgets, capable of being utilized through the platform, it’s one hell of a task to try to grasp the full scope of all that can be done with the software.…
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13 Free Ebooks to Make You a Better Designer
The first time I ever sat down to work on designing a website, I was exhausted. I had what seemed like 300 Google Chrome tabs open; I couldn’t keep track of which resource helped me with what thing.…
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How to Put Together a Perfect Knowledge Base Article
Our Knowledge Base plugin gives you a great head start when it comes to organizing content for your users and displaying it effectively on your WordPress site, but there’s still plenty of heavy lifting to be done on a page-by-page level.…
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47 Ethical Companies Hiring Tech Positions
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In Austin where I live, the tech industry is booming. It’s home to companies like Dell, IBM, Oracle, and LegalZoom, and the city is bursting with smaller design firms, development agencies, and more talented freelancers than foodtrucks (probably—don’t quote me on that).…
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Three WordPressers Making a Splash
We love celebrating the achievements of those who use WordPress to share their talents with the world, so here are three recent success stories we thought you’d enjoy.…
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