Coming Soon: New .Blog Domains for Websites
For more than a decade, the word “blog” has been synonymous with “your home on the…
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…
Four Tips From Seasoned Bloggers
Some of the best blogging advice we hear is from you. On Discover, we publish interviews and profiles…
New Themes: Affinity and Shoreditch
I’m happy to introduce two new themes in our collection: Affinity and Shoreditch. Affinity Affinity, designed by…
¿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…
Exploring Your Dashboard: Four of Our Favorite Tools
A few months ago, we launched a spandy-new post editor, updates to the WordPress.com Reader, and…
Five Engaging Longreads Stories You Might Have Missed
Longreads has been connecting readers with quality stories since 2009, and since joining Automattic in 2014,…
Perspectives on Going Viral
You wake up one morning, check your phone, and spit out your coffee. You have thousands of…
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….
“Discover” Great Features You Might Have Missed
Late in 2015, we launched Discover — a site to showcase the people who use WordPress…
Three Ways to Refresh Your Website in 2016
The new year is a great time to hit refresh and set new goals. If your…
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…
New Theme: Pique
Today, we’re welcoming a new free theme to our collection: Pique. Pique Pique is a stylish…
What Are Your Blogging Goals for 2016?
You may not bother with resolutions for the new year, but setting goals for your blog helps…
The New WordPress.com App for Windows Is Here
You asked, and we answered—quickly! Just weeks after unveiling the all-new WordPress.com and desktop app for Mac,…
Field Notes: Wine Tourism Conference 2015
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day….
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?…
“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…
Introducing: Our New, High-Speed Editor
From parents and poets to journalists and politicians, WordPress.com’s publishing tools allow people to make their…
Five Posts that Made Us Think
What makes a great blog post? We all have our pet criteria: sharp prose. Enlightening content. Stunning…
Register Now for WordCamp US in Philadelphia!
We’re less than a month away from the inaugural WordCamp US, the largest WordPress conference in…
The WWWP5K: Your Photos and Stories
Last week we asked the WordPress.com community to join us for 5 km of walking, jogging,…
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…