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- How to Make a Portfolio Website in Three Simple Steps (+ Six Pro Tips)
- Border radius size presets in WordPress 6.9
- Painting with Words: Kristy Cambron on Journaling and Preserving the Moment
- How to Install and Set up WooCommerce from Scratch (15 Steps)
- Will AI Replace Web Developers (And How Should You Adapt)?
- 15 Thursday Social Media Post Ideas to Keep Followers Engaged
- New Revenue Opportunities: Unlock WooPayments Revenue for New & Existing Woo Stores with Automattic for Agencies
- Telex Turns Everyone into a WordPress Block Developer
- The Agency Dispatch: September 2025
- Illustrations that scale: building a cohesive style for Woo
- Coming Soon: A Simpler, Cleaner Parse.ly Navigation
- WordPress Lead Generation: 12 Proven Ways to Capture & Qualify More Leads
- The 8 Best WordPress Sitemap Plugins to Support Your SEO
- Time to Move: Typepad Is Shutting Down September 30, 2025
- Go Deeper with Apple Intelligence in Day One
- Top 22 Contact Form Best Practices to Increase Conversions
- Tumblr Tuesday: Despite everything, it’s still you.
- Transforming Digital Education: From WordPress Campus Connect to WCUS
- 12 Tuesday Social Media Post Ideas to Overcome the Midweek Slump
- Step 2: Finding your Niche
- How to Collect Email Addresses with Gated Content on WordPress Sites
- Photo Journaling and Surprising Questions: Akshay Kapur on Preserving Memories and Embracing Change
- The 7 Best Cloud Hosting Providers for WordPress Sites
- Building a light/dark toggle with the Interactivity API
- The Pattern System: Publish Faster with Reusable WordPress Layouts
- Transparency Report Update: January – June 2025
- What’s new for developers? (September 2025)
- Tumblr Tuesday: Silksong is here!
- Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
- Step 1: What’s your Goal as a Creator?
- Gradle modularization delivers 3x faster Android builds
- The 5 Best Things About WordCamp US 2025
- Learn at Your Own Pace With Our Free Courses
- August in Beeper land: MCP, API, Parity, and more
- Is Your WordPress Site Slow? Here’s How to Fix It
- Implementing namespaces and coding standards in WordPress plugin development
- Introducing our New Blog Academy: Growing, Monetizing, and Navigating the Creator Journey
- How to Change Your WordPress Website's Domain Name
Looking to build a portfolio site? Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to make one, along with pro tips to help you take your website from meh to magnificent.
A step-by-step guide on registering and applying border radius size presets coming in the WordPress 6.9 release.
Bestselling author Kristy Cambron joins the podcast to talk about her newest novel and the role journaling plays in her daily life. The post Painting with Words: Kristy Cambron on Journaling and Preserving the Moment appeared first on Day One | Your Journal for Life.
Ready to sell online? Follow this 15-step guide to install and set up WooCommerce from scratch. Top plugins to find new customers and grow your store!
Short answer: It depends. For a better answer, you'll have to read this post.
Need inspiration for Thursday social media posts? Steal these 15 clever ideas that turn an overlooked day into your most engaging content slot.
Profit boost: Automattic for Agencies — the most rewarding program for WordPress agencies — now pays on WooPayments revenue from new & existing stores
WordPress block development usually requires advanced technical expertise. Telex changes that by letting you describe what you want and get a working block plugin instantly with prompts.
September’s biggest WordPress agency updates: new billing features, migration incentives, and client-ready resources to fuel smarter growth.
At Woo, we’ve been rethinking how illustrations can support both our product and our brand. The result is a new system designed to feel cohesive, flexible, and fast to work with. We’ve built a framework that balances functional clarity with expressive storytelling, giving us a style that adapts seamlessly across contexts.
Enjoy faster, cleaner navigation on Parse.ly dashboards starting Sept. 29, 2025. The post Coming Soon: A Simpler, Cleaner Parse.ly Navigation appeared first on Parse.ly.
Turn your WordPress site into a lead generation machine. 12 proven tactics to convert more visitors: Faster forms, stronger magnets, and top tools!
Looking for the best sitemap plugin for WordPress? Compare the top 8 options with pros, cons, and features to improve SEO and get indexed faster.
If you're a Typepad user, time is running out to find a new home for your blog. The good news? We're here to help make your transition as smooth as possible.
Reflect, write, and revisit with on-device AI features, including personalized prompts, smart title suggestions, and entry highlights. The post Go Deeper with Apple Intelligence in Day One appeared first on Day One | Your Journal for Life.
Capture more leads. These 22 contact form best practices help you reduce friction, improve design, build trust, & increase conversions on your site.
tumblr:Tumblr Tuesday: Despite everything, it’s still you.Another good week for game fans! Yesterday marked a whole decade of Undertale. Happy anniversary to the game and all who have loved it for so long <3 To celebrate, here’s a small selection of all the beautiful art fans are making. Explore more here.@sparticus2000art: @ink-ami: @elesketchii: @featherspiral: @fairydropart:…
The past August, two students from Spain traveled on scholarships to WordCamp US in Portland, where they took the stage as panel speakers. Here's how WordPress.com and WordPress Campus Connect helped make it possible.
Looking for Tuesday social media post ideas? Explore 12 creative ways to beat the midweek slump, boost engagement, and grow your audience.
Identifying your niche is crucial for successful content creation, as it aligns your passions, audience interests, and societal needs. A clear niche enhances your blog’s recognizability, sharability, and sustainability, allowing you to maintain focus and consistency. Reflect on your interests, audience questions, and world issues to define your niche effectively.
You asked, we answered: What’s the easiest way to collect emails on my site and give people a downloadable freebie in return?
From family memories to leadership lessons, Akshay Kapur shares how journaling helps navigate change and stay connected to what matters most. The post Photo Journaling and Surprising Questions: Akshay Kapur on Preserving Memories and Embracing Change appeared first on Day One | Your Journal for Life.
Choosing a cloud hosting provider for WordPress? Speed, uptime, and scalability matter. Review the 7 best options: features, pricing, use cases, & more.
A step-by-step guide in implementing light and dark color schemes for WordPress block themes with an interactive toggle button.
Use synced, unsynced, and locked patterns to reuse layouts, update content site-wide, and move from draft to publish in less time.
The Automattic Trust and Safety team’s vision is to maintain safety while democratizing publishing. Earlier this year, we established five pillars that underpin our intent: user rights, safety by design, sustainability, empowerment, and transparency. An open web must be an accountable web! In our transparency report, we look through the lens of two pillars in…
September 2025 highlights: Abilities API testing, Accordion blocks, theme.json form styling, Data Views upgrades, create-block variants, AI tools with chatbot demo, Playground improvements, and new Developer Blog articles.
tumblr:Tumblr Tuesday: Silksong is here!After six years of waiting, Hollow Knight: Silksong was released last week, breaking the internet a little bit in the process. Folks are falling in love with the Bell Beast and Hornet (again), finding ways to get through the game, sharing help with anyone struggling, and creating incredible fan art. Please…
🌟 NewWe no longer show popups for earned badges and received gifts. You’ll continue to find announcements about earned badges and received gifts in your Activity feed.🚧 OngoingWe are aware that images may sometimes fail to load for iOS users, and we’re investigating the issue.Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new….
Many blog creators fail by not defining their ultimate goals, which shape their content and audience engagement. Goals include sharing creativity, establishing authority, building community, or monetization. Understanding your purpose aids in crafting a clear roadmap, ultimately leading to a successful blogging journey tailored to specific aspirations.
hi there 👋. In this blog post, we explore the build performance difference between modularized vs. monolithic architectures, using Pocket Casts Android as an example. TLDR; We compared build performance between Pocket Casts Android’s modularized architecture (37 modules) and a monolithic version (1 module). Results show modularization delivers 2-3.6x faster build times for local development…
WordCamp US showed there is no slowing down in the ecosystem of the world’s most popular content management system. Here are five key takeaways from our very own Tess Needham.
Whether you’re building your very first website, starting a blog, or looking to improve your site’s visibility, WordPress.com offers a growing library of free courses to help you every step of the way.
Beeper MCP Beeper and friends hosted a MCP hackathon a few weeks ago in our NoHo space where we unveiled our MCP server. Beeper MCP lets you connect Beeper to Claude, Cursor and other AI tools which you can then ask questions like “summarize my latest unread chats” unlocking your chat data. Try out Beeper…
Slow websites frustrate visitors, reduce your site's visibility in search engines, harm conversion rates, and damage your brand. Fortunately, you can fix a slow WordPress website. Here's how.
Add namespacing, autoloading, and linting to your multi-block plugin for clean, scalable WordPress development.
In a digital landscape dominated by platforms and algorithms, one constant remains: your domain is your most powerful asset. As AI floods the web and social media shifts beneath our feet, this post explores why owning your domain is more than smart—it’s essential.
Changing your WordPress domain name? Follow this step-by-step guide to rebrand safely, avoid downtime, and protect your search engine rankings.
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