Celebrating Pride Month: Perspectives on Identity, Diversity, Communication, and Change
Throughout June, we’ve published a series of Q&As at WordPress Discover featuring members of the Automattic…
Working Remotely Isn’t Just About the Work
With COVID-19, the business world has come to a fork in the road: Down one route,…
The creation of our first digital story using the block editor
We write a lot of blog posts. And, not only about SEO topics, but also about…
National Voter Registration Day 2018
Did you know that today is National Voter Registration Day? At Automattic, our mission is to…
Better Blogging Through Podcasts: Announcing RadioPublic Embeds
We love podcasts: they’re like the blogging version of radio, a medium anyone can jump into…
A Few Tiny Steps Towards an Improved Writing Space at WordPress.com
Today we’re proud to unveil some design changes to the WordPress.com editor. It has the same…
Engineering Happiness en Español
As part of our effort to build a localized Spanish-speaking support team, the Happiness Hiring team at Automattic…
Customizing Twenty Sixteen: Four Takes on Our Annual Theme
Every year we release an annual flagship theme as a blank canvas for bloggers, artists, professionals, and business owners….
The 2015 WordPress.com Year In Review!
Here’s an incredible fact: together, you published more than 660 million posts on WordPress.com in 2015, and…
What Was Your Favorite Post You Wrote in 2015?
The last few weeks of the year are the perfect time to look back and reflect…
What Are Your Blogging Goals for 2016?
You may not bother with resolutions for the new year, but setting goals for your blog helps…
“Don’t be who ISIS wants you to be”: Bloggers on Paris and Beirut
Telling stories has power; they connect us, help us work through the raw emotion, and give us a way to…
Five Posts that Made Us Think
What makes a great blog post? We all have our pet criteria: sharp prose. Enlightening content. Stunning…
What Inspires Us to Blog?
Every day, people from all around the world start a site on WordPress.com to share everything…
Join Automattic’s Worldwide WP 5k 2015
The 2015 edition of the Automattic Worldwide WP 5k (#WWWP5k) is around the corner! Automatticians already hit the…
Whimsical Worlds: Artists to Follow Now
From colorful journal pages to creatures made of salvaged materials, here’s a glimpse at the imaginative…
Early Theme Adopters: Gazette
Gazette is a theme that balances rich functionality with a pleasant, non-obtrusive look. Depending on your…
The Business of Freelancing, Blogging, and Books, According to Author Jennifer Armstrong
First, I should note: I am not related to Jennifer Armstrong. But! I have followed her…
Editors’ Picks of the Year: Notable Reads on WordPress.com
Our editors dove into the archives to resurface top posts published on WordPress.com this year, from…