From across Automattic.
Updates from all of Automattic’s business units.
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What Is User Engagement? Top 10 Metrics to Track and Improve
Want to boost website performance? See 10 user engagement metrics to track and improve interactions. Reduce bounce rate and drive more conversions!
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How to Increase Blog Traffic: 21 Tactics You Can Use Instantly
Implementing these proven strategies can attract visitors, improve engagement, and enhance the overall success of your blog.
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Parenting While Working: Nicola Hodd’s Story
While some people choose not to have children, others make this decision due to workplace constraints rather than personal preference, underlining the importance of employer flexibility.
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How a Single Mom of Six Got a Whopping 7,724% ROI with Blaze for WordPress
Dawn Scott spent $6,135 on ads with Blaze for WordPress—and turned it into $480,000 in sales.
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Crafting Your Online Identity: Tips for Picking the Right Domain Name
Your domain name impacts how people find you, how they perceive your brand, and whether they’ll remember you. A strong domain name can boost your credibility, build trust, and make it easier for people to engage with your content or business.
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How to Make a Website: The Complete, No-Code Beginner's Guide
Ready to build your own website? We've got you covered in this complete beginner, no-code guide.
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How to Add Alt Tags to WordPress Images (Alt Text Attribute)
Enhance accessibility and SEO on your WordPress site! This guide explains alt text, how to add it, and best practices for optimizing your images.
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Meet Marina Matijaca
We recently welcomed Marina to our Automattic Design team. Enjoy this brief interview with her.
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How to Customize Your Bluesky Handle with a Custom Domain From WordPress.com
Unify your website and social media branding! Learn how to use a custom domain name from WordPress.com as your Bluesky handle with this easy tutorial.
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Social Media Marketing for Schools: Top Platforms & Best Practices
The proven tips you need for an effective school social media strategy. Explore leading platforms, best practices, & vital privacy considerations.
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The Top Five Digital Audience Development Strategies for Publishers
With so many choices for readers in a saturated media landscape, audience loyalty can be elusive and fleeting. All it … The post The Top Five Digital Audience Development Strategies for Publishers appeared first on Parse.ly.
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Enhance Your WordPress Blog: Create a Custom Author Page
Create a stunning custom author page for your WordPress site with our step-by-step guide. Showcase your authors, boost credibility, and enhance user experience.
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Jeff Gothelf's Recipe for Success: Clear Goals, User-Focused Design, and Automattic
Putting something new into the world is a big undertaking with lots of moving parts: conceptualizing a new product, making it real, and making it useful. Jeff Gothelf's mission is to make that big undertaking feel a little bit easier.
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Create Unique Avatars With Backgrounds and Stickers!
You can now remove backgrounds, add fun stickers, and show off your unique style. Update your Gravatar and share your new look online!
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How to Add or Change a WordPress Favicon (Site Icon)
Three easy ways to add a favicon to your WordPress site (in minutes)! Create a more professional website with these tools. Step-by-step guide.
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Notice Our New Look? An Update to WordPress.com's Interface
We're bringing the WordPress.com experience closer to the core WordPress experience.
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One hook to rule them all: The many faces of block categories
Blocks play an integral role in modern WordPress development, which are organized into categories. But did you know you that you can rename, reorder or create new ones? Come explore the many ways you can use customize your block categories.
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How to Start a Successful Blog: A 12-Step Guide for Beginners
Starting your own blog has never been easier. In this post, we'll cover the step-by-step process on how you can start a blog today, and why you should.
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What is PHAR Deserialization? The Exploit Every PHP Developer Should Know
Learn how the PHAR deserialization exploit works. Identify, mitigate, and secure your site against vulnerabilities: Proven methods and top tools.
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Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for January 2025
New Year, new themes! We've been hard at work developing new themes to help you kickstart 2025. Whether you are building your very first website or looking to refresh an existing site, these new options can help you get the look and functionality you want.
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8 Vulnerability Scanners to Harden Your WordPress Security
Boost site security: Compare the top 8 WordPress vulnerability scanners (pros, cons + pricing, and more). Identify threats and prevent attacks.
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Boost Engagement with Advanced WordPress Comment Design
Unlock advanced WordPress comment design techniques to boost engagement. Learn custom fields, social logins, and styling tips for a thriving community.
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Improving Fediverse Engagement With the Reactions Block
We believe in the open web and interoperability between online publishing platforms. That’s why we’re excited about the Fediverse and are committed to shipping features that improve the way your site connects to the open web. Today, we’re introducing Likes, Reposts, and the Fediverse Reactions block, building on our commitment to decentralized publishing. Introducing the…
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WordPress Categories vs Tags: Differences, SEO Impact, and Best Practices
Organize your WordPress site like a pro! Learn the differences between categories and tags and how to use them to enhance SEO and navigation.
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How to Measure Content Performance: 20 Metrics That Actually Matter
Struggling to measure content performance? Discover key metrics, tools, and actionable steps to analyze, optimize, & improve your content's impact.
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How to Create an Editorial Calendar and Be a More Successful Blogger
Want to make your blogging life easier with just one tool? Start using an editorial calendar. Let us show you how.
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What's new for developers? (January 2025)
Welcome to the new year in this post that covers all of the developer highlights from the end of 2024.
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Designing a Unique Digital Persona: A Social Media Branding Strategy
Master the art of personal branding on social media. Our guide offers actionable tips to optimize your profiles, engage your audience, and measure your success.
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Blog Analytics: Top KPIs and Tools to Measure Reader Engagement
Ready to boost your blog’s impact? Explore top KPIs and tools to measure engagement, analyze reader behavior, and spark real content growth today!
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Aligning Automattic’s Sponsored Contributions to WordPress
Automattic has always been deeply committed to the success of WordPress, dedicating significant resources and talent to its development for almost two decades. However, we’ve observed an imbalance in how contributions to WordPress are distributed across the ecosystem, and it’s time to address this. Additionally, we’re having to spend significant time and money to defend…
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Even noma's Website Has Great Taste (Thanks to WordPress)
The Copenhagen restaurant is one of the world's best—and its website is, too.
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How to Scan a WordPress Site for Vulnerabilities (3-Step Guide)
Discover how to easily scan your WordPress site for vulnerabilities, fix issues fast, and keep your site secure with a few simple, automated tools.
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How to Customize Your WordPress Author Box
Learn to tailor your WordPress author box with Gravatar and top plugins. Boost SEO and author credibility effortlessly.
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What is Real-Time Analytics? Key Benefits and Top Platforms
Learn what real-time analytics is, how it works, and key benefits. Plus, see the top platforms that instantly turn data into actionable insights.
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Build Locally, Deploy Globally: Meet Studio Sync for WordPress.com
Studio now offers a free Sync feature to effortlessly sync between local WordPress sites with WordPress.com.
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How to Create a Personal Website: A Detailed, Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to create your personal website with WordPress one step at a time. Pick a domain, customize the design, add features, and more.
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