Design and Web team summary – 10th November 2020
The web team here at Canonical run two-week iterations. Here are some of the highlights of…
The Hunt for Rogue Time – How we investigated and solved the Chromium snap slow startup problem
In October, we shared a blog post detailing significant snap startup time improvements due to the…
Open Infrastructure Summit 2020: Highlights from Canonical’s first digital OIS
Another Open Infrastructure Summit just passed, and yet this one was like no other OIS past….
OpenStack Charms 20.10 – Victoria, OVN, CNTT and more
Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.10. This new release introduces a…
14 Best WordPress Affiliate Plugins for 2020 (Many are FREE)
Are you looking for the best WordPress affiliate plugins? If you’re a professional blogger and marketer,…
A Better Way to Discover Blogs and Get Inspired
WordPress is home to millions of sites across countless topics. It’s a big and beautiful world,…
Improved Navigation in the WordPress Apps
An app should be intuitive to use, so you can do what you need to do…
Create With Confidence — and Better Blocks
In the last few years, the teams working on the block editor have learned a lot…
7 keyword research mistakes you should avoid
Thinking about the keywords you want to rank for is really the first and foremost step…
Customize Your WordPress.com Dashboard
We’re happy to announce new improvements to your WordPress.com dashboard for a more accessible and customized…
The WordPress.com Year in Review (and Resolutions for 2018)
Some years go by slowly — not because they’re busier, but maybe there’s just more out…
A Brand New Editor for the WordPress Mobile Apps
Now that so many of us carry around tiny pocket-size computers, more and more of our…
An All-New Media Library for the WordPress iOS App
We recently launched an all-new media picker for WordPress for Android. Now, iOS users, you’re next!…
Launching: All New Media Picker for Android
There’s this… thing… in the Android WordPress app that we refer to as the “seven-item menu.”…
A New WordPress App Update, Designed for the iPad
Over the past few months we’ve been working to dramatically improve users’ experience on iPad —…
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…
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…
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…
Welcome to the New WordPress.com and WordPress.com App for Mac
What if WordPress.com helped you… … update your pages and respond to comments from a desktop app?…
Reader Refresh
Today, we’re proud to present an improved version of the WordPress.com Reader. We’ve made the Reader…
A Large-Screen Interface and Filters for Notifications
A few months ago we released a new notifications interface on WordPress.com — we made notifications…