What is E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness)?
Have you ever looked at a piece of content online and thinking: Hmm, I’m not sure I can trust this?…
What is readability and why is it important?
When it comes to writing, it can be hard to look at your work objectively. Of course, most of us…
Recommended Reads for International Day of Disabled Persons
WordPress.com, as my colleague Anne recently wrote, continues to be a space for people to tell their personal stories and…
Forecasting the future of cloud with OpenStack experts
OpenStack, the cloud computing platform, has proved to be a beacon of success for open source. It rounds off 10…
Enjoy a Smoother Experience with the Updated Block Editor
Little details make a big difference. The latest block editor improvements incorporate some common feedback you’ve shared with us and…
The Best of WordPress.com in April
You’re off to a strong creative start in 2017! Here are a few recent updates and stories from the WordPress.com…
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 great features you’ve come…
Four Tips From Seasoned Bloggers
Some of the best blogging advice we hear is from you. On Discover, we publish interviews and profiles of bloggers around the world,…
Five Engaging Longreads Stories You Might Have Missed
Longreads has been connecting readers with quality stories since 2009, and since joining Automattic in 2014, we’ve published more than…
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 made more than 655 million…
What Are Your Blogging Goals for 2016?
You may not bother with resolutions for the new year, but setting goals for your blog helps you to (re)focus and…
“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 make sense of events.…
Five Posts that Made Us Think
What makes a great blog post? We all have our pet criteria: sharp prose. Enlightening content. Stunning photos. (“Lots of GIFs?”…
On the Run: Blogging the European Refugee Crisis
People all over the world were horrified last week when they saw the picture of a dead Syrian child, Aylan Kurdi, being…
Heather Matarazzo’s Personal Stories from Inside and Outside Hollywood
Actor Heather Matarazzo has only published a few posts on her new blog, but each one has stirred up an…
WordPressers Making a Splash
We read hundreds of blogs and websites every day, from up-and-coming voices and established pros alike. We love visiting those sites…
#LoveWins! LGBTQ Bloggers Make Their Voices Heard
You might have noticed the rainbow banner across the top of WordPress.com over the weekend — our way of marking Pride…
Jenny Diski on Writing, Love, and Cancer
Photo by Suki Dhanda We’ve been following writer Jenny Diski for many years at the London Review of Books, and…