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Host Your WordPress Meetup Site for Free on WordPress.com
WordPress has always been built around its community, and local meetups are a huge part of it. To encourage even more in-person connection, we’re happy to let you know that you can now host your...
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Your Eagle-Eyed Host: Inside WordPress.com’s World-Class Security Features
It’s never been easier to create a website—especially with WordPress.com—but keeping that site secure can be challenging. When you host with WordPress.com, though, we do the heavy lifting for you and...
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Five Takeaways from WordCamp Europe 2024 (From a First-Time WordCamp Attendee)
This year’s WordCamp Europe was held in Torino, Italy, the capital city of the Piedmont region in northern Italy. Torino is known for its rich automotive history, beautiful architecture, and, of...
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Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for June 2024
The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Check out the latest themes in our library, including great options for crafters, legal firms, and artists....
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6 Surprising Things You Can Do on WordPress.com Without a Plugin
“WordPress” and “plugins” are often thought to be synonymous. The two go together like peanut butter and jam, like summer and watermelon, like yin and yang . . . you get the idea. It often seems like...
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How We Built It: my.blog
When Automattic launched the .blog domain extension back in 2016, our in-house team built a shiny new website to go with it. The vibe of my.blog very much matched the era, featuring a simple layout, a...
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How to Create a Beautiful and Functional Site for Your WordPress Meetup Group
A few weeks ago at WordCamp Europe we announced free sites for local WordPress meetup groups. This initiative aims to support the WordPress community by providing free world-class hosting to promote...
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WordPress 6.6 Is Here
A few times a year, the WordPress open source software gets a major update, providing users with new capabilities, regular refinements, and important bug fixes. With hundreds of fixes and...
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Customizable Footer Credits Are Here
From the earliest days of WordPress.com, the bottom of every site on our platform has featured a default phrase in the footer credit area. Today, we’re handing the reigns over to you: every website...
View ArticleAutomattic for Agencies x Endoh Collaborative: A Match Made in WordPress Heaven
Endoh Collaborative is blazing a unique and powerful trail as a queer-owned, feminist digital agency. Their aim is to create effective, engaging, and accessible websites and visual brands to help...
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Why We’re Partnering With Perplexity
One of our key values at Automattic is that access to knowledge, software, and media is for everyone, not just the gatekeepers. That’s why we’ve built our company on the foundation of open source...
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Building Studio in Public: Using WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS in our...
At WordPress.com, our goal is to provide the best tools for WordPress developers and agencies. We built Studio for that reason. Our free local WordPress development environment launched a few months...
View ArticleWelcome to the Fediverse Files: What Is the Fediverse?
You’ve probably seen it on social media and in headlines around the web in the last few years: the fediverse. But what is it, really? A Boba Fett theme park? A Kevin Federline production? Some sort of...
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Clearer Writing at Your Fingertips: Introducing Write Brief with AI (Beta)
At WordPress.com, writing isn’t just a task. It’s how we think. Automattic is a globally distributed company, which means our work is almost always done asynchronously. For us, written communication...
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Beyond Avatars: How Gravatar is Transforming Online Identity
Gravatar, short for Globally Recognized Avatar, is a powerful service from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. For over two decades, Gravatar has been the driving force behind billions of...
View ArticleThe Fediverse Files: ActivityPub Interview with Evan Prodromou
In this episode of the Fediverse Files, Doc Pop talks with ActivityPub co-creator Evan Prodromou. ActivityPub is a fediverse technology that’s akin to what RSS is for podcasts and blog feeds; it’s the...
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Move to WordPress.com, and We’ll Handle the Migration for Free
If your WordPress website is hosted somewhere other than WordPress.com, we’d love for you to ask one simple question: Why? Maybe you started there because of a stellar pricing deal on hosting and...
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How We Built It: Beeper’s New Blog
Automattic recently welcomed Beeper, an all-in-one messaging app, to our umbrella of life-improving apps. (If you haven’t yet, check out Day One, Pocket Casts, and Tumblr, too!) Since Beeper joined...
View ArticleThe Fediverse Files: Making Social Media Fun Again
In this episode of the Fediverse Files, Doc Pop talks with Bart Decrem, the co-creator of Mammoth, an open source Mastodon app for iOS. Doc and Bart discuss how the walled gardens of modern social...
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Building Studio in Public: Maintaining High Performance in Our Local...
We’re back with Part 2 of our “Building Studio in Public” series! Today, we’re diving into the challenges we faced while optimizing Studio’s performance. This post will be especially valuable if...
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