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Create custom visuals for your social media with the Jetpack Social Image Generator
Traditionally, creating unique and engaging imagery for social media platforms often required a basic understanding of image editing tools. Adding text to images, changing photo orientation, and tinkering with different visual styles for each social network was tedious and frustrating. But not anymore. With Jetpack Social Advanced, you can overlay custom text onto your images…
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How to Improve First Input Delay (FID) in WordPress
Poor first input delay score? It could hurt your search rankings. Learn seven ways to improve your score — and the top tool that takes care of the hard work!
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Happiness Engineers: The Secret Sauce for WordPress.com's Stellar Support
Take a peek behind our customer support curtain.
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How to Make a Phone Number Clickable to Encourage Calls
Need to make a phone number clickable on your website? Follow these four basic steps.
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How to Choose the Best WordPress Hosting For Your Site
What kind of hosting do you need? What’s truly worth the cost? A secure, fast site starts with the best WordPress hosting provider. Here’s how to choose.
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The Benefits of Repurposing Content: How to Get More Mileage Out of Your Writing
Content repurposing is the practice of taking existing content and turning it into different formats on different platforms. The purpose is to reach a wider audience and save time and effort in creating new content. It also helps to reinforce your message through different channels.
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Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for June 2023
Five beautiful new WordPress.com themes for bloggers, photographers, restaurateurs, and more.
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How to Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) on WordPress
Looking for a competitive advantage? Improving your LCP score could be the answer. Learn what it is, how it impacts your site, and the easiest way to improve.
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10 Best Tools to Check a Website for Malware & Virus Infections
Suspect a malware infection on WordPress? Not sure what to look for? How to automatically scan your site for malware + 1 click fixes & free security scans.
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Get Paid on Any Plan: Introducing Payments for the Free Plan and Up
No limits, starting now. Earn money from your site, even on the Free plan.
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New on Gravatar: Collect Payments on the Go!
Gravatar has launched new payment features. Add verified payment links for PayPal, Venmo, and Patreon, share their cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and receive payments through a "Send Money" button on their profiles.
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Your Domain Deserves the Best: It’s Time to Move to WordPress.com
Lightning-fast speeds. Unimpeachable security. Built-in privacy protection. Move your domain to WordPress.com today.
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Is WordPress Secure? How Reliable and Safe is the Platform?
Is WordPress a secure platform? Is it safe enough for ecommerce? Enterprise companies? Get the truth & see what tools you'll need to bolster your site.
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.blog Featured Site: acoup.blog
Bret Deveraux is a historian and lecturer passionate about history, fantasy, and how the past influences popular culture. His blog, acoup.blog—is a place to share his knowledge and passion. And as it turns out, there is a whole community of history buffs ready to engage with his insights.
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The Style Book: a one-stop shop for styling block themes
The Style Book is the new one-stop Global Style feature of the Site Editor that allows you to add all global or per-block design elements with a live preview window. This also lets users create a new set of variations that they can modify with a single click.
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Navigating the Block Editor Handbook
The Block Editor Handbook is intimidating even for seasoned developers. If you are new to block development, you're likely to feel completely overwhelmed. This guide will help you to find your way around the Block Editor Handbook. It suggests a learning path that will help you become an expert in no time.
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How to Create a Compelling Product Landing Page in 6 Steps
You want your product landing pages to be their best but you aren't sure how? This 6-step process will have them hitting your marketing goals.
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How to Serve Static Assets with an Efficient Cache Policy on WordPress
It’s a highly effective way to improve loading times, but how do you do it? How to leverage browser caching manually — and even better — with a plugin.
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Life @ Automattic: Q&A with Talent Operations Wrangler Elizabeth Urello
What’s it like to work at a fully distributed company with a worldwide team and culture guided by a Creed? Welcome to “Life @ Automattic,” an occasional series of Q&As with the people behind the products. Today we spoke with Talent Operations Wrangler Elizabeth Urello. Who are you, what’s your job title, and where do…
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Upgrading the site-editing experience with custom template part areas
How to create custom template part areas to create a nicer user experience in WordPress block themes.
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Amp Up Your Site With These 15 New and Noteworthy Plugins
Get plugged in to the best of what WordPress has to offer.
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How to Edit and Resize Images in WordPress
Yes, please! How to quickly edit images in WordPress: Resize, crop, flip, rotate & more. Bulk edit & optimize images for a beautiful, fast-loading site!
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How to Analyze Your Blog's Metrics: Using Data to Improve Your Writing and Reach
Analyzing your blog's metrics provides insights into how your audience interacts with content and helps you make data-driven decisions to expand your reach. In this post, we get into the world of blog metrics and explore how you data can enhance your site’s performance.
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27 Proven Benefits of Social Media Marketing for Business Growth
27 reasons you can’t afford to skimp on social media. See the top tools to keep it simple & multiply your efforts. Plus, 6 resources for beginners.
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Boost Your Brand With Our New Webinar: Mastering Custom Domains
Custom domains add credibility to your website, no matter your . . . domain. (Sorry, we just had to!)
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WordPress TTFB: How to Measure, Diagnose, and Reduce Server Response Time
See all 6 ways to improve TTFB + server response times. Boost UX, get better Core Web Vitals scores, & win in the search rankings. Top tools for quick wins.
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What’s new for developers? (June 2023)
The fifth installment of a monthly roundup that showcases features that are specific to theme and plugin developers. The latest updates are focused on the WordPress 6.3 development cycle.
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Understanding the Anatomy of a Website
The anatomy of any website consists of a few basic elements. Learn what they are and how to make the most of them to build a successful site.
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A Place of One’s Own, in Noho
Automattic is distributed first, but we love getting together in this magic space.
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Reblogging Gets a Refresh
With our new reblogging interface, we've created a more respectful and gratifying experience for everyone.
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How to Preload Key Requests in WordPress
What you’ll need to get started. Preload 5 key elements from fonts & JavaScript to CSS. The best way to quickly improve WordPress performance — top plugins
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Introducing Jetpack AI Assistant in WordPress.com
Your rocketship to more powerful content creation.
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Meet Your New Creative Writing Partner — The Jetpack AI Assistant
We are excited to present the Jetpack AI Assistant, our latest feature aimed at enriching your WordPress experience. Available today on WordPress.com and all Jetpack-powered sites, this tool utilizes the potential of artificial intelligence, adding a formidable ally to your writing process.
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Jetpack 12.2 – AI Assistant at your fingertips
We're thrilled to announce some major enhancements and exciting new features that will revolutionize the way you work and interact with your audience. Jetpack is here to supercharge your online presence, boost your productivity, and help you reach new heights of success. Let's dive right into the change log and explore what's in store for you!
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.blog Featured Site: tvfanatic.blog
Love television? Then tvfanatic.blog might be the blog for you. Blogger Amy says she watches TV like it's a full-time job. This week we see how blogs that come from an authentic love of a subject can easily draw in other fans that recognize the genuine passion behind the writing.
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Arbitrary Plugin Installation Vulnerability In Formidable Forms
During a recent internal review of the Formidable Forms plugin, a serious security issue was detected which could potentially enable users with low privileges such as subscribers to install arbitrary plugins on vulnerable sites. The exploitation of this vulnerability could grant malicious users the power to install any plugin available on downloads.wordpress.org, which can lead…
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What Is a Sidebar? Ultimate Guide to Sidebars in WordPress
The WordPress.com sidebar helps you customize the look, feel, and functionality of your site by adding widgets and tailoring the user journey.
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Using block inspector sidebar groups
With the introduction of block inspector tabs in WordPress 6.2, block developers have more control over where custom controls should appear by leveraging the group of the InspectorControls component.
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New to Newsletter — Earn With Paid Subscriptions
Whether starting a paid newsletter from scratch or taking an existing one up a notch, there's no better time than now.
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Social Media for Nonprofits: Benefits, Strategy, and Best Practices
Use the right social media marketing tools to increase donations, engage volunteers, & demonstrate your nonprofit's progress. Succeed with a limited budget.
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