From across Automattic.
Updates from all of Automattic’s business units.
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Site Branding 101: Your Guide to the Best Website Name Ideas
Find out how to come up with the best website name ideas for your business website or online store to get site branding right.
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Create an Effective Contact Form with These Easy Tips
Learn to build and implement an effective website contact form in a few easy steps. In addition, here are four UX best practices you need to know.
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How Much Does a WordPress Website Cost?
How much does a WordPress website really cost? Explore the details to learn how much you can expect to pay based on your needs.
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How to Deactivate & Delete a Theme in WordPress (4 Ways)
Delete unused WordPress themes: How to safely remove a theme. Should you delete the default WordPress theme? Checklist for a safe, smooth, quick transition.
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Create Websites for Real Estate Agents That Build Trust
Discover the features that effective websites for real estate agents include.
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Creating Mobile Responsive Websites – Why It’s Important, and How To Do It
Learn how to create a mobile responsive website in a few simple steps and discover why it’s important for your site’s overall SEO.
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CTA Design and Placement: 5 Best Practices to Improve Conversions
Smarter CTA design and placement can unlock better marketing results. Learn five best practices for CTAs that convert.
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WordPress Comment Moderation: A Beginner's Guide
WordPress comment moderation might sound like a complicated task, but all it takes is some configuration to keep your comments section safe.
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Joomla vs. WordPress: Which CMS Should You Choose for Your Website?
In our Joomla vs WordPress comparison, we pit both CMS platforms against each other to find out which one has the features you need most.
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.blog Returns to Nordic Domain Days in 2023
Nordic Domain Days (NDD.blog) is back for 2023, and as official sponsors, .blog has had May 7th – 9th marked on its calendar for months. This much-anticipated event celebrates the people and companies within the domain community, with a particular focus on those based in the Nordic region.
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Domains vs. URLs: Everything You Need to Know
Using simple examples, we show you the differences between domains and URLs.
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Website Color Schemes: How To Get It Right (+ Infographic)
Your website is a landing page for your online audience, and it tells a story about your identity. So, what does your website's color scheme say about you?
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Responsive Website Design: Tips for a Better User Experience
You already know that responsive design is a must-have for any website. Now, it's time to create a responsive site of your own.
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What is a CDN and Does Your Website Need One?
What is a CDN? It's a server network that distributes your content. Here's what that means for your website.
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7 Common WordPress Login Errors and How to Fix Them
Fix WordPress login errors! Quick solutions to common problems. Advanced troubleshooting guide. Solve WordPress login issues & prevent them in the future.
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Quick and easy local WordPress development with wp-env
wp-env is a tool that allows developers to create a WordPress development environment from the command line with zero configuration. Learn how to install and use wp-env, and discover the benefits that it provides over other local development environments.
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Special Webinar on March 28: WooCommerce 101 — How to Set Up a Store
Our upcoming webinar will help you get started with your e-commerce site.
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WordPress wallpapers
Has your desktop been looking a bit drab lately? If so – or if you’d just like to show a little WordPress love – we’ve got just the remedy: 30 one-of-a-kind WordPress desktop wallpapers to breathe new life into your backgrounds. The wallpapers Download and install To add a wallpaper to your desktop: About the…
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How to Write a Newsletter That Gets Massively Read and Shared
Newsletters are hot again so how do you get yours to stand out in the inbox? Get the tips you need to deliver quality newsletters readers will love.
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Automattic Women: Selena Jackson
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, Selena Jackson, talks to us from her home in New York. Who are you, and what do you do? Hi, I’m Selena! I am originally…
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A brief look into how a Trust & Safety Wrangler organizes their workday
As a Trust & Safety Wrangler, I contribute to making sure the web is a safer and better place. I work in content moderation by assessing if websites and blogs hosted on WordPress.com comply with our Terms of Service, User, and Store Guidelines. My workday goes mostly around reviewing reports. Most of them are sent…
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.blog Featured Site: screenhub.blog
Screenhub.blog brings together a community of bloggers who are passionate experts in the world of TV, movies, and gaming. By consistently putting out new content, including reviews and recaps, Screenhub attracts readers looking for news and information on “all things from the screen.”.
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WordPress REST API: How to Access, Enable, & Use It (With Examples)
Connect WordPress to other applications with the WordPress REST API. Learn how to use it & how to safeguard your site from hackers. Getting started guide.
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What is a URL – Understanding the Basics
We're going back to the basics here to help you understand everything you might want to know about URLs. Come along if you'd like.
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Everything you need to know about spacing in block themes
A tutorial that walks through configuring global space settings and styles and provides tips, tricks, and workarounds for custom use cases.
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Women of Datamattic | Menaka Sankaralingam
Welcome to Women of Datamattic—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to build, maintain, and explore Automattic’s data landscape and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is the Code Wrangler, Menaka Sankaralingam.
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How to Add & Use jQuery Scripts in WordPress
Create JavaScript design elements by using jQuery in WordPress. How to add custom scripts & what to do before you start. Full jQuery WordPress guide.
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Automattic Women: Kirsten Johnston
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 is HRmattician Kirsten Johnston. Who are you, and what do you do? I’m Kirsten, I live in a little village in Scotland with my fiance,…
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Sell Courses and Create Interactive Content on WordPress.com
Unleash your inner educator and boost your blog's impact with these interactive blocks and course-building LMS features.
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#CFHack2023: WordPress in VS Code!!!
At the CloudFest Hackathon over the weekend, we embedded WordPress directly into VS Code. Forget spending hours setting up a local development environment at your next Contributor Day. Simply install the WordPress Playground VS Code extension, run “Launch WordPress Playground” from the command launcher, and you’ll have a fully mostly functional WordPress installation right inside…
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Making the Social Web a Better Place: ActivityPub for WordPress Joins the Automattic Family
If you’re a blogger or content creator who wants to reach a wider audience, the ActivityPub plugin is perfect for you.
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Nine reasons why blogging is good for your mental health
When it comes to mental health, writing offers an outlet to express yourself on anything from your thoughts and feelings to your opinions on any topic you like, and you can keep it totally private if you prefer. So whether you decide to write for yourself or publish your musings on a blog, these are nine reasons why blogging could help improve your mental health.
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How to Edit & Customize Your WooCommerce Shop Page
Take your WooCommerce store to the next level with a customized Shop page — how to make changes with a step-by-step guide + examples for inspiration!
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Women of Datamattic: Madison Swain-Bowden
Welcome to Women of Datamattic—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to build, maintain, and explore Automattic’s data landscape and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is the Data Pagan, Madison Swain-Bowden.
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A Social Experience Anchored by Your Domain
How would you like to use one of your domains as your handle across the web? Here's a first step towards making that a reality.
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We’re Stewards, Not Owners: User Experience and Open Source
Designing for open source software comes with gnarly challenges. Learn how WooCommerce is tackling them.
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WordPress theme.json: How to Edit, Examples & Best Practices
Use the theme.json file to style the block editor and individual blocks. Learn how to edit theme.json with examples — plus two things to do before you start.
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.blog Featured Site: urbannature.blog
June Hunter is an English photographer and artist living in Vancouver. She turned her childhood passion for photography into a career as an artist, with a specific interest in urban environments, crows, and other birds. Her work is featured and documented on her blog, urbannature.blog.
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Block theme templates: the easy way to build an elegant grid of posts
WordPress block themes offer an immense amount of flexibility, allowing you to configure your home page layout in countless ways. In this tutorial, you will be guided through creating a magazine-style home page layout that displays recent posts while also providing a traditional post list for inner pages.
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How to Start a Personal Blog and Share Your Thoughts With the World (Inspiration Included)
It's never been a better time to start a personal blog. The world needs your thoughts. Here's how to make that happen.
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What's New on WordPress.com: Fresh Buttons, Sticky Headers, and Time-Saving Shortcuts
Our latest batch of new features includes updated buttons, sticky blocks, and tools for more efficient site editing.
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What's new for developers? (March 2023)
Welcome to the second edition of this monthly series. If you’re a developer who builds on top of the WordPress platform, this news is for you. The goal is to make it easier to navigate the fast-paced development cycle, narrowing down the list of must-read content into a single digestible source. The February 2023 edition was…
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Block deprecation – a tutorial
There's no need to use a dynamic block if you foresee that your block will change and evolve over time. You can use a static block and use Block Deprecation whenever you update your block. This tutorial post shows you how.
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WooCommerce Store Growth: 14 Proven Ways to Increase Sales
Want more WooCommerce sales? Proven strategies for all kinds of stores. Tools to increase average order value, improve conversions, & boost store revenue.
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MainWP Partners with Jetpack for WordPress Security
We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with MainWP, bringing you two new Jetpack extensions in the MainWP marketplace.
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How to Create an Art Portfolio Website to Share Your Work (with Examples)
Market your artwork with your own artist portfolio website. You'll discover how to create your own and get inspired by amazing examples.
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A New Home for WordPress.com Courses
Our new education hub at WordPress.com/learn has launched! No registration or purchase required.
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Women of Datamattic: Anna Elek
Welcome to Women of Datamattic—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to build, maintain, and explore Automattic's data landscape and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is our Head of Data, Anna Elek.
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What is a brute force attack?
A brute force attack is a type of cyberattack where the attacker uses an automated system to try different combinations of username and password until they find the correct combination. This can be done by using a dictionary of common words or by using a list of common passwords. The attacker will keep trying different…
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Jetpack 11.9 – Improvements for Social Sharing Buttons and Form Block
This month we have worked on several improvements to enhance your Jetpack experience, including further enhancements to the Social Sharing Buttons and Form Block.
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18 WordPress Analytics Plugins to Measure Site Performance
Analytics are the key to helping you track WordPress site performance and visitor behavior so you can optimize your site. Learn which analytics plugins provide the data you need.
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State of the App (Spring 2023)
Our road map for the next 6 months
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Converting your shortcodes to blocks
Learn tips and tricks for creating blocks from existing shortcodes, based on real world examples. Understand when a shortcode should be converted to a block, processes to follow to convert blocks, and useful block development practices.
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Beeper is now free
Announcing our new Business Model
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Creating a custom block that stores post meta
Learn how to create a custom dynamic block that saves information to custom post_meta and creates a one-to-one experience in both the block editor and on the front end. You will see an example of how to to use @wordpress/create-block package to scaffold a block.
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The Data Docs: A WordPress based Data Discoverability Tool
The Data Docs is Automattic's new home made data discoverability solution. It collects and publishes our datasets' metadata to Wordpress so it is accessible and searchable by our users. Here we describe the idea from its conception and explain how it works.
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WordPress Site Search: How to Improve Relevance, Speed & Results
Give visitors the WordPress search they want — autocorrect, instant results, and intuitive suggestions. WordPress search overview, pro tips, & top tools.
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SQL Injection Found And Fixed In Slimstat Analytics and Paid Memberships Pro
During an internal audit of the Slimstat Analytics and Paid Memberships Pro plugins, The WPScan research team uncovered two SQL Injection vulnerabilities that could allow low-privileged users like subscribers to leak sensitive information from a site’s database. If exploited, the vulnerability might grant attackers access to privileged information from impacted sites’ databases, such as usernames…
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15 Awesome WordPress Payment Plugins to Build Your Business
Wondering which WordPress plugin to use to accept payments online? Discover which of these 15 plugins will work best for your needs.
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