From across Automattic.
Updates from all of Automattic’s business units.
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How Yarnnakarn Ceramics Uses WordPress.com to Expand Their Business
Yarnnakarn's work can be found all over the world and we're thrilled that WordPress.com has helped them in that journey.
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Maximizing Your Blog's Potential with Keyword Research
Keyword research has become vital for bloggers seeking to unlock their blog's true potential. With the right keywords, you can optimize your content for search engines and attract organic traffic. In this post, we explore the significance of keyword research and provide practical insights on leveraging online tools to identify the right keywords.
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Jetpack 12.1.1: Critical Security Update
Jetpack 12.1.1, released earlier today, contains a critical security update. We recommend that you update the Jetpack plugin on your site right away.
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Concept to Creation: Custom Theme Designs Just Got Easier
Patterns, colors, fonts, and more. Our new homepage design tool guides you through making your creative vision a reality.
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How to Reduce DNS Lookups to Speed Up a WordPress Site
Optimizing your WordPress site for speed? Don’t overlook DNS lookups. Learn how they work & how you can reduce them on WordPress to boost performance.
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Customizing core block style variations via theme.json
A walk-through of customizing the core WordPress block styles directly in theme.json instead of using a custom stylesheet.
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Episode 30: The Magic of Meetups
On this episode of the Distributed podcast, we dig into the good, the bad, and the history of Automattic meetups.
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Happy 20th Anniversary, WordPress! We Wouldn’t Be Here Without You
Happy 20th anniversary, WordPress! We can’t wait to see what the next two decades — and beyond — will bring.
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How to Lazy Load in WordPress (With & Without a Plugin)
Lazy load images in WordPress with and without a plugin — here’s what you’ll need. See the benefits of lazy loading and five ways to speed up your site.
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.blog Featured Site: theholeygrail.blog
Have you ever become so obsessed with a dessert that you can’t stop thinking about it? The author of theholeygrail.blog knows how you feel. In fact, she took things one step further: she started a blog about it. Theholeygrail.blog is one woman’s mission to find the perfect donut.
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Curating the Editor experience with client-side filters
Learn how to curate the Editor experience like never before using a new client-side filter introduced in WordPress 6.2.
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Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for May 2023
Five beautiful new WordPress.com themes. Which one is your favorite?
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How to Use the WordPress Block Editor (+ 10 Advanced Tips)
Everything you need to know about the WordPress block editor. Pros & cons, plus how to edit your entire site. Step-by-step examples + how to avoid mistakes.
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Tips for a healthy work-life balance for people starting at a remote company
Maintaining a proper work-life balance is tough enough for folks who work in an office. It’s even more challenging when you work from home. But distributed work veteran Raúl Antón Cuadrado has tools, tips, and techniques to keep your work organized, humming, and in healthy balance with your life.
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wp-now: Launch a Local Environment in Seconds
As a developer, it’s frustrating to constantly deal with configurations, install various libraries, and commercial licenses. We enjoy writing code, building things, and shipping products that help people. Code is poetry. wp-now is a new, zero-config development environment we recently contributed to the WordPress Playground. Currently in its alpha stage, wp-now is already the fastest…
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useEntityRecords: an easier way to fetch WordPress data
The @wordpress/data and @wordpress/core-data packages are extremely useful for fetching and working with data in your block development projects, but they are not exactly intuitive to use. This tutorial introduces you to useEntityRecords which is a custom React hook that makes fetching data a great deal easier for the developer.
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A Tour of the All-New Stats Page
An all-new experience for measuring and analyzing how great you are.
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Top 23 Types of Social Media Content (And When to Use Each)
Do you know the 22 different types of content? What your social media is missing & how to inspire posts that get engagement & go viral. See them in action!
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Beeper X SQMFI = Beepberry!
Introducing Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers, designed for chatting on Beeper
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How to Create a Great Social Media Content Calendar in 7 Steps
Stop scrambling for ideas, and start growing your engagement & followers. Proven strategies, shortcuts, & tools for social media content calendar planning.
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Blogging Blunders: How to Avoid These Common Mistakes
Blogging is a great way to share your thoughts and ideas with the world, but it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd. One way to make sure your blog is successful is to avoid common blogging mistakes that hurt your traffic, engagement, and reputation.
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Automattic Women: Marjorie R. Asturias
Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee, Marjorie R. Asturias, chats with us from her home office. Who are you, and what do you do? I’m a proud Automattician based in the…
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What Is a FAQ Page? (Real-Life Examples and Best Practices)
A well-planned FAQ page saves time, encourages sales, and helps establish your company as a serious contender.
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Life @ Automattic: Q&A with security engineer Alexander Concha
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 talked with security engineer Alexander Concha. Who are you, and what do you do? Hello, my name…
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24 Social Media Tips to Skyrocket Business Growth and ROI
Make a bigger impact with less effort. Manage social media efficiently for massive growth & ROI. Actionable social media tips & the top WordPress tool.
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Inside the Feature: Why Real-Time Backups Are a Big Deal
Losing your work is a thing of the past with our built-in real-time backups and one-click restores.
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What's new for developers? (May 2023)
The fourth edition of a monthly roundup that brings you all the latest features, updates, and fixes you need to know about for extending WordPress.
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Social Media Branding: How to Skyrocket Your Strategy in 11 Steps
Lost in an endless stream of cat videos & memes? Get clear, actionable advice to improve your social media branding. Engage more followers & get results.
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.blog Featured Site: breck.blog
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and Breck.blog is here to prove it. The website is a love letter to Breckenridge, Colorado, in photo form. It allows people to upload their best shots of the stunning area. Alongside photography, contributors can add captions.
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Elevate Your Website with Our May Webinars
Sign up for our May webinars. Hosted by our world-class experts, they're always interactive, educational, and fun!
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WordPress Permalinks: Full Guide with Best Settings
Changing your permalinks in WordPress? Should you? What works best, what doesn’t, and how to prevent errors. How to update link structure & boost SEO.
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Jetpack 12.1 – Under-the-hood improvements for your site
Jetpack 12.1 – Under-the-hood improvements for your site
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Safely Jazz Up Your Website With Staging Sites on WordPress.com
WordPress.com staging sites enable you to clone your site and test any new changes in a safe environment before going live.
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16 WordPress Developer Plugins That Will Make Your Life Easier
If you're a WordPress developer, you'll love having some of these curated developer plugins available to help you work more efficiently.
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