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Popular Podcast App Pocket Casts Joins Automattic

Web Monkey2 years ago04 mins

We’re excited to announce that Pocket Casts will be joining Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com. More than 80M people in the US listen to a podcast weekly, and this critically acclaimed podcast app makes it easier for fans to discover podcasts and customize their listening experience.…

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Day One, the Journaling App, Joins Automattic

Web Monkey2 years ago03 mins

We’re excited to welcome Day One to the Automattic team. Day One is a private journaling app that makes writing for yourself a simple pleasure. A beautifully designed user experience has earned the app prestigious awards including App Store Editor’s Choice, App of the Year, and the Apple Design Award, along with high praise from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Wired, and more.…

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How to schedule Tweets and drive better engagement

Web Monkey3 years ago014 mins

Twitter sees an average of 500 million Tweets every day, meaning there’s no shortage of highly active and engaged users on the platform. But it also means there’s competition for eyes on Tweets, and you’ll need to be strategic when you post.…

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How to use the Instagram link in bio to drive traffic

Web Monkey3 years ago014 mins

You’ve probably seen it many times – your favorite Instagram account posts a photo about something interesting and ends the caption with “link in bio to read more.”…

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Multichannel marketing: What is it and how to start using it effectively

Web Monkey3 years ago015 mins

As a marketer, you have so many routes to pursuing your goals of generating brand awareness and getting more and more customers in the pipeline. There are so many different strategies and platforms to test for your brand, and multichannel marketing is just one of the ways you can manage your presence across them.…

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Turn Your WordPress.com Blog into a Podcast with Anchor

Web Monkey3 years ago07 mins

Blogging on WordPress.com is all about sharing your unique voice, and starting today, you can extend that to another platform: Anchor. We previously shared some tips and tricks for getting started with a podcast on WordPress.com…

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Showcase Your Figma Designs on WordPress P2

Web Monkey3 years ago03 mins

Figma — one of the most popular and fastest growing digital design tools today — was recently voted “the most exciting design tool of 2021.” In many organizations, a smaller group — often the design team — uses Figma on a daily basis.…

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Divi Child Themes – EVERYTHING You Need To Know (Guide)

Web Monkey3 years ago01 mins

Divi child themes are the ideal way to make the most of the power and creativity that Divi provides without impacting the theme in any way.…

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Popular snaps per distro (2020 edition)

Web Monkey3 years ago08 mins

Back in mid-2019, we wrote a blog post detailing and comparing the most popular snaps across multiple distributions – Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Manjaro, and Ubuntu.…

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The Hunt for Rogue Time – How we investigated and solved the Chromium snap slow startup problem

Web Monkey3 years ago020 mins

In October, we shared a blog post detailing significant snap startup time improvements due to the use of a new compression algorithm. In that article, we focused on the cold and hot application startups, but we did not delve much into the first-run setup scenario.…

Design

Best 10 WordPress File Manager/Media Library Plugins (2020)

Web Monkey3 years ago037 mins

Few websites contain just text. Most will feature a combination of images, audio, video and downloadable files. While the built-in WordPress media library does a decent job, it isn’t the most elegant or most efficient solution. That’s…

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Earn Money on Your WordPress.com Website with Premium Content and Paid Newsletters

Web Monkey4 years ago05 mins

Make money while you build an engaged following for your website: use the WordPress.com Premium Content block to create monthly and yearly paid memberships that give followers access to the premium content of your choice – text, photos, videos, and more.…

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A Brand New Editor for the WordPress Mobile Apps

Web Monkey6 years ago3 years ago06 mins

Now that so many of us carry around tiny pocket-size computers, more and more of our Internet time happens on phones and tablets — not just browsing, but creating.…

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A Few Tiny Steps Towards an Improved Writing Space at WordPress.com

Web Monkey7 years ago09 mins

Today we’re proud to unveil some design changes to the WordPress.com editor. It has the same great features you’ve come to expect, but with a cleaner, more refined experience — and a few new improvements, like a distraction-free writing mode.…

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The 2015 WordPress.com Year In Review!

Web Monkey8 years ago020 mins

Here’s an incredible fact: together, you published more than 660 million posts on WordPress.com in 2015, and made more than 655 million comments. That’s a whole lot of joy, laughter, tears, insight, and thoughtfulness.…

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The New WordPress.com App for Windows Is Here

Web Monkey8 years ago02 mins

You asked, and we answered—quickly! Just weeks after unveiling the all-new WordPress.com and desktop app for Mac, we’re thrilled to introduce our new Windows app. Now you can manage your sites, write and publish, and even customize your site and view stats from a dedicated app in your Windows Start Menu.…

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Faster-Loading Images on Your Site

Web Monkey8 years ago03 mins

We always strive to make your sites run as quickly and smoothly as possible, both on the front end and under the hood. So we’re happy to announce that the WordPress.com…

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Welcome to the New WordPress.com and WordPress.com App for Mac

Web Monkey8 years ago07 mins

What if WordPress.com helped you… … update your pages and respond to comments from a desktop app? … manage all your WordPress blogs and sites in one spot, on any device?…

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New Theme: Independent Publisher

Web Monkey8 years ago01 mins

On this Theme Thursday, we’re happy to announce the latest addition to our collection of free themes. Independent Publisher Independent Publisher is a clean and elegant theme by Raam Dev, with a clean and responsive layout ideal for personal bloggers and writers alike.…

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New Theme: Argent

Web Monkey8 years ago01 mins

Today we’re happy to debut a new, free portfolio theme, Argent! Argent Meet Argent, a new addition to our theme collection, designed by Automattic’s own Mel Choyce. …

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Social Media Icons Widget

Web Monkey9 years ago02 mins

Now available in a widget dashboard near you, we present the Social Media Icons Widget! No longer do you have to fiddle around with complicated HTML code to add beautiful social media icons to your blog or website.…

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Writers’ block? No problem! Introducing AutoMatton

Web Monkey9 years ago08 mins

Here at WordPress.com, we‘re always looking for ways to improve the blogging experience. We pride ourselves on taking your suggestions to heart and work tirelessly to create better tools for you.…

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A New My Sites Section

Web Monkey9 years ago02 mins

My Sites just got a new look, but more importantly, it got a technical overhaul, making the page dramatically faster and more powerful. From one central location, scan and select any of your WordPress sites or create new ones with the support of a more visual interface.…