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WordPress Pages vs Posts – What’s the Difference? (Explained)

Do you want to know what’s the difference between WordPress Pages vs Posts? If you’re thinking of adding new content to your WordPress site, then it’s essential to know which type of content to add.…

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Industry Experts and Pro Bloggers Come Together to Inspire, Teach, and Help You (and Your Site) Succeed

Web Monkey4 years ago014 mins

At the Official WordPress.com Growth Summit, the two-day virtual conference running twice from August 11-13, you’ll have access to about 50 speakers and presenters across 90+ breakout sessions and keynote conversations.…

Celebrating Pride Month: Perspectives on Identity, Diversity, Communication, and Change

Web Monkey4 years ago010 mins

Throughout June, we’ve published a series of Q&As at WordPress Discover featuring members of the Automattic team. These conversations explore personal journeys; reflections on identity; and diversity and inclusion in tech, design, and the workplace.…

Celebrating Pride Month with Out in Tech

Web Monkey4 years ago011 mins

Happy Pride Month! Last year, I shared resources and highlighted organizations doing awesome work in the LGBTQ+ community. This year, I’m excited to tell you more about Out in Tech, an organization that Automattic has partnered with for the past four years.…

Add a Post Carousel and Embed a Podcast Player in Seconds with Our Two Latest Blocks

Web Monkey4 years ago07 mins

The WordPress editor keeps expanding its library of blocks, adding new and exciting functionality to websites on a regular basis. After a crop of new business-related blocks last month, our most recent additions will appeal to three communities we hold close to our heart: podcasters, podcast lovers, and bloggers.…

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Make Your Business More Accessible with New Blocks

Web Monkey4 years ago012 mins

From our support sessions with customers each month, we know that growing your brand or business is a top website goal. And in this unprecedented time in which more people around the world are staying at home, it’s important to promote your products and services online to reach a wider audience and connect with more people.…

How to Move Your Classes Online — and Charge for Them

Web Monkey4 years ago09 mins

We are proud to host many websites for language tutors, yoga schools, and personal fitness coaches around the world. It’s exciting to see how educators and consultants across different industries are getting creative with their online offerings: language teachers conduct 1:1 sessions to help students hone pronunciation, yoga studios livestream group sessions, and instructors lead writing boot camps via Zoom breakout rooms.…

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The creation of our first digital story using the block editor

Web Monkey4 years ago016 mins

We write a lot of blog posts. And, not only about SEO topics, but also about our mission, company culture, and our broader vision. We hope that by writing those kinds of posts we can give you a glimpse into who we are as a company, and who we are as people.…

Celebrating Pride Month with WordPress.com

Web Monkey5 years ago07 mins

Happy Pride Month! My favorite parts about celebrating this month are the stories shared from LGBTQ+ folks, their loved ones, and organizations looking to show support.…

Publishing to WordPress from Bear Just Got Better

Web Monkey5 years ago03 mins

Sharing is a core part of the iOS experience, and WordPress is committed to helping people share their stories, products, or services freely and widely. So when the fine folks at Shiny Frog—makers of the excellent writing app Bear—asked for an easier way turn Bear notes into WordPress posts, we enthusiastically said yes.…

Electric Literature Moves to WordPress — Here’s How an Indie Publisher Thrives on the Open Web

Web Monkey5 years ago07 mins

Electric Literature launched 10 years ago in Brooklyn, New York, as a quarterly print journal with a mission to make literature more relevant, exciting, and inclusive.…

Introducing the 2019 ‘Anything Is Possible’ List

Web Monkey6 years ago08 mins

A coffee co-op owned by its farmers, a sewing community empowering people of all body shapes and sizes, and a 12-year-old journalist are among those named in WordPress.com’s…

Announcing Free .blog Subdomains

Web Monkey6 years ago04 mins

Over the last thirteen years or so, the number of sites on WordPress.com has grown — a lot. Every one of those sites gets a unique wordpress.com…

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WordPress.com Teams Up with Rebrand Cities to Bring Local Businesses Online

Web Monkey7 years ago02 mins

Cities are collections of neighborhoods — and neighborhoods are powered by small business. From coffee shop owners to fitness instructors, therapists to thrift stores, it’s the people we see in the storefronts next door who build and reinforce the unique character of our cities.…

Inclusive Illustrations, By Design

Web Monkey7 years ago024 mins

I like to think that designers solve problems, while artists ask questions. And when the two go hand-in-hand, real magic happens. Why? Because the right question gets answered with the right solution — art asks, and design responds.…

The Best of WordPress.com in April

Web Monkey7 years ago05 mins

You’re off to a strong creative start in 2017! Here are a few recent updates and stories from the WordPress.com community in April that we wanted to share with you.…

Field Notes: CMS Africa Summit

Web Monkey7 years ago05 mins

Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do in the community.…

Introducing VR and 360° Content for All WordPress.com Sites

Web Monkey8 years ago03 mins

Virtual Reality is coming to WordPress.com! As of today, you can create and publish your own VR content on any WordPress.com site, starting with 360° photos and 360° videos (beta), and you can view regular photos and panoramas in VR.…

Community Recap: Automattic’s Worldwide WordPress 5K

Web Monkey8 years ago07 mins

From September 19 to September 26, we invited members of the WordPress community to join us in one of our favorite yearly traditions: the Automattic Worldwide WordPress 5K (open to runners, walkers, cyclists, and hikers — and any other type of ambulation).…