From across Automattic.
Updates from all of Automattic’s business units.
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Social Media Marketing Tips for Bloggers
People use social media platforms to connect with others with common interests and share information they find important, helpful, or entertaining. When you post your content and interact with others through social media, it increases your online presence and the chance of others sharing your content as well. Social media helps improve your SEO by people sharing your content. This leads to more readers and an increase in revenue opportunities for your blog.
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How to Track User Activity on Your WordPress.com Website
Tracking user activity on your WordPress.com website can help you create better content, improve user experience, and more. Learn how to easily set up user tracking here.
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Swift: Why is my @MainActor code running in the background?
@MainActor was introduced introduced in Swift 5.5 by SE-0316 as a way to tell the compiler that certain code should always be run on the main thread. However, we have seen some cases where functions annotated with @MainActor were still being called on a background thread. This post explores what was happening, and how it…
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FAQ: Happiness Engineers And Flexibility
Automattic powers many sites worldwide with its large assortment of products, so our support team is available every day of the week to best serve our customers. But what does that mean for our Happiness Engineers’ schedule? Q: What does a typical workday look like for Happiness Engineers? Generally, a Happiness Engineer’s workday consists of…
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Duplicate Content in WordPress: How to Identify Common Causes and Fix Them Now
Duplicate content on WordPress could be hurting your search engine rankings — even if it’s accidental. Here are 7 common causes and solutions you can use right now.
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How to Enable or Disable User Registration in WordPress
Top tips to manage WordPress user registration — easily enable or restrict access. How to foster community and reduce spam. WordPress user roles explained!
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How to Schedule Design Changes Without Disrupting Users
Modifying a live website can lead to unexpected downtime for your users, which can result in lost traffic and even cost you money. Whether it’s updating a few design elements or overhauling your website’s branding, you want to make sure that any changes you make are done correctly and don’t disrupt your users in any…
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WordPress Site Broken or Crashed After an Update? Here’s How to Fix It
Experiencing issues after an update on WordPress? How to determine the cause, the best ways to troubleshoot and fix errors, and how to prevent future problems.
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How to Create a Custom WordPress User Registration Form
Create a unique user registration form on WordPress. A quick, convenient, and customized form can improve conversion rates and smooth operations. Learn how.
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How to Put WordPress in Maintenance Mode (And Mistakes to Avoid)
Working on your site? Enable maintenance mode to keep from confusing visitors. How to put a WordPress site into maintenance mode & tips to customize the design.
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.blog Featured Site: berenstainbears.blog
March is National Reading Month in schools across the United States. To celebrate, we chose a dotblogger behind some of children's favorite books, berenstainbears.blog. The first Berenstain Bear book was published in 1962 and the series has been popular ever since.
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Designing a theme in the WordPress Editor
Thanks to WordPress 5.9 and the evolution of Full Site Editing, it’s possible to design a fully-featured theme using just the Site Editor.
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WordPress.com Favorites: Empish Thomas
Welcome back to our “WordPress.com Favorites” series! In these interviews, we’ll be highlighting bloggers about their passion project. Caution: contents guaranteed to be inspiring. This interview has been lightly edited. Shortly after Empish Thomas earned her journalism degree in the mid-’90s, she began experiencing severe headaches and sensitivity to light. After a visit to the eye…
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How to Conditionally Display Blocks or Widgets in WordPress
WordPress blocks and widgets provide a convenient way to present elements across your site. But there may be times when you want to hide features on certain pages. If so, you’ll need to know how to conditionally display blocks and widgets. Fortunately, the Visibility tool that comes with Jetpack and WordPress.com makes doing so quick…
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5 Reasons Why You Need Visual Content on Your Blog
Blogging is a powerful tool for everyone from influencers, to content marketers, photographers, et al. Blogs have evolved from simple websites to being a key channel for businesses and individual bloggers to connect to their target audiences and build their digital presence.
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WordPress SQL Injection: How to Detect, Remove & Prevent Attacks
Could your WordPress site be vulnerable to SQL injections? Learn what these attacks are, how to detect them, and how to protect your site or recover from an injection.
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What is SEO Spam? How to Protect Your WordPress Site
Even if you do everything right, someone else can hurt your reputation by putting SEO spam on your site. Learn the warning signs & how to protect your site.
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Customize Your Entire Site With New Block Themes
Experiment with a new look for your site with themes created to take advantage of Full Site Editing.
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The Future of Plugin, Themes, and Services Purchases on WordPress.com
Recently we shared that you can now purchase six popular Automattic plugins right from your WordPress.com dashboard. We’re intentionally testing this out with our own products before opening it up to the broader community. This is the first step in our plan to make taking your site to the next level faster, easier, and more…
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How to Fix WordPress Login Issues
Locked out of WordPress? Check out five quick fixes that can help you get in right away! From lost passwords to wrong permissions and more — here's what to do.
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How to Clean Up the WordPress Media Library: Remove Unused Images & Media
WordPress Media Library full of unused files? Need more space? Don’t delete things one at a time! A step-by-step guide to quickly clearing your Media Library.
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Transparency Report Update: July – December 2021
We’re back again to unveil Automattic’s latest transparency report covering the period between July 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021. Across both WordPress.com and Tumblr, we’re publishing data about government requests for user information, government demands for removal of content, as well as national security requests and notices of copyright and trademark infringement. During the…
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Jetpack 10.7: An easier way to build your own Jetpack
This month, we’re excited to launch My Jetpack, a new dashboard that allows you to manage your Jetpack plan and products all in one place. In addition, we’ve been making design and under the hood improvements for some of your favorite blocks.
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.blog Featured Site: montana-cans.blog
For a business, creating a blog and finding the right balance between spotlighting a product and engaging consumers can feel like a challenge. Montana-cans.blog shows they know their audience, and positions the brand as an expert voice on graffiti and art culture.
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Automattic Women: Josepha Haden Chomphosy
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, community steward Josepha Haden Chomphosy, chats with us from her home workstation in California. Who are you, and what do you do? Within Automattic, I…
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