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Newspack Helps Hong Kong Free Press Protect Its Stories
The site has developed a greater variety of member benefits, from feature previews and exclusive columns to ad-free browsing, and increased donations by 33 percent.
Brickomattic: A Celebration of What We Have Built
How (and why) Automattician Zach Spears designed a collection of Automattic-specific LEGO® kits.
Women at Work: A Podcast for Creatives on a Platform for Creatives
For Hey Studio founder Verònica Fuerte, there was only one choice for their popular podcast’s new home.
Lights, Camera, ‘Code for the People’
The new documentary short serves as a rallying cry to reclaim the spirit of open source.
Automattic Celebrates Graduates of University of Illinois Chicago’s AI Leaders Program
On June 23, around 40 students from Illinois and Louisiana will wrap up the year at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) as the first graduating cohort of AI Leaders—the nation’s first workforce-focused AI literacy course tied to a recognized credential. These students built real WordPress projects. They applied generative AI to real work. For example,…
Automattic Joins the Tech Coalition
We’re proud to announce that Automattic has joined the Tech Coalition, a global alliance of technology companies working together to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Pressable, WordPress VIP, and WP Cloud Partners Earn Secure Hosting Alliance Certification
Pressable and WordPress VIP have each earned official certification from the Secure Hosting Alliance (SHA), an i2Coalition initiative that recognizes hosting providers with a genuine, demonstrable commitment to security, reliability, and responsible operations.
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Behind the Fiber-Optic Rope: Engineering WordCamp
Networking engineer Tyler Leeds explains how Automattic delivered rock-solid livestreaming from WordCamp Asia—and what’s on tap for WordCamp EU in June.
How WordPress Sent a Dog (and a Pop Culture Brand) to the Moon
The Pop Culture Monday site—and newsletter, and podcast—is a fun and irreverent testament to WordPress’s flexibility.
WordPress: The Operating System of the Agentic Web
The very things that made WordPress successful as a human platform make it even more powerful as an agentic one.
The One Thing That Changed How I Work
Paolo Belcastro, Artistic Director for Automattic’s Domains Maison, pens a thoughtful piece about what he learned from coaching.
“One For My Baby”
For one Automattician, paid parental leave turned out to be “the best benefit I got in my life.”
(Almost) No Downtime MariaDB Upgrades
From time to time, our systems engineers write up a case study detailing a notable moment on the infrastructure front lines. The latest comes from Andrija Vucinic, an Automattician on our Systems Operations team, who is upgrading our fleet of database servers to MariaDB 11.8.
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