From across Automattic.
Updates from all of Automattic’s business units.
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What is a CDN & Why is it Important to Use One?
What's a content delivery network (CDN) and how could using Jetpack's free option speed up your WordPress website? Find out more.
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6 Reasons Why You Should Start Blogging This Year
“Should I start a blog?” If this question is on your mind at the moment, then you are in the right place. At the beginning of the year, many people are thinking about their personal and professional goals. Some of you may be thinking of how blogging can help with these goals. Naturally, you might…
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Meet Joen from Jetpack: A Connoisseur of Sunshine and WordPress
At Jetpack, our Happiness Engineers are usually busy supporting our customers to ensure that they have everything they need for a successful website — but we interrupted one of them for an inside look at Jetpack and some valuable tips and tricks. Meet Joen, a Jetpack Happiness Engineer who grew up in Viking territory but…
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Improving Offline Posting
<img src="https://mobileblogger217394665.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/offline-excerpt.png"> <p>The best technology is invisible and reliable. You almost forget it’s there, because things just work. Bad technology never disappears into the background — it’s always visible, and worse, it gets in your way. We rarely stop to think “My, what good Wifi!” But we sure notice when the Wifi is iffy.</p> <p>Good technology in an app requires solid offline support. A WordPress app should give you a seamless, reliable posting experience, and you shouldn’t have to worry whether you’re online or offline while using WordPress Mobile. And if we’ve done our jobs right, you won’t any more…</p>
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How to Customize a WordPress Site with Jetpack
Jetpack is well known for its image CDN, backup features, and stats, but did you know it also offers more than 30 other ways to customize your website? With a modular approach — no features are automatically enabled, and you choose which items to turn on individually — it adds features without loading unnecessary code,…
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How to Create an Effective Contact Page for Your Website
The Contact page is a key component of nearly every website. Its purpose is straightforward — a way for visitors to reach you. But with strategic building it can do much more! For freelancers, the Contact page is an interactive version of a business card. For larger companies, it’s a way to get in touch…
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Creating a Block-based Theme Using Block Templates
This post outlines the steps I took to create a block-based theme version of Twenty Twenty. Thanks to Kjell Reigstad for helping develop the theme and write this post. There’s been a lot of conversation around how theme development changes as Full Site Editing using Gutenberg becomes a reality. Block templates are an experimental feature…
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The Block Editor is Now Supported on the WordPress Native Apps
The block editor allows for a smoother drafting experience – now possible on any screen size.
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Small changes with an impact: building trust within calls
Often when discussing about the organizational design of a distributed company the discussion verges on the big things, the structural changes, and the policies. Yet, small changes can mean a lot and send a strong signal in the day to day work of everyone, and help build trust. An example of this is how we…
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Meet Filipe from Jetpack: A Designer with a Passion for Discovery
Find out why Filipe, a Jetpack Design Engineer, thinks about his mom when he's working to improve your user experience.
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U.S. Federal Employees Lose Remote Work Perk
Despite the rise of distributed work across the corporate world, the Trump administration is pulling back. In a departure from the previous president’s move toward distributed work, multiple federal agencies are ending remote work provisions and mandating co-location. Trump’s war on telework represents a milestone in how his administration is changing the culture of the…
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NamesCon is Almost Here!
Not only is it award season for the entertainment industry, it is also conference season for the domains industry with NamesCon, ICANN 67, and Cloudfest all lined up in the next few months. This year NamesCon has decided to take the show out of the bright lights of Sin City and into the City of…
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Jetpack 8.1: Ready for Twenty Twenty
Jetpack 8.1 is now available for download. Our first release of the new decade is a general maintenance release that fixes several bugs and improves compatibility between Jetpack, PHP 7.4, and the newest default WordPress theme, Twenty Twenty. Here’s what’s new this month.
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Working Smaller, Slower, and Smarter
Jason Fried, the co-founder and CEO of Basecamp, collects mechanical watches. He appreciates their simplicity. He once wrote in a blog post, “When I look at my watch, it gives me the time. It asks nothing in return. It’s a loyal companion without demands. In contrast, if I look at my phone for the time,…
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How to Avoid Common WordPress Plugin Problems with Jetpack
One of WordPress’s biggest benefits is plugins, which let you expand your site’s functionality to meet your exact needs. There are no limits to the type or number of plugins you can install and activate on your WordPress website — there are currently thousands available in the WordPress repository. But with this unlimited flexibility comes…
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Comment Spam: Google Cares, and You Should Too
Community engagement is key to success for a blogger or online publisher, and that means comments. Allowing comments on blog posts encourages readers to express their opinions. It also provides an opportunity to increase your authority through conversations with inquiring minds and appreciative fans in your blogging network. Social media makes it easy to share…
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Our 2020 New Year’s Resolutions For .blog
Happy New Year! Can you believe it’s 2020 already? We’re heading into the fourth year of .blog and we couldn’t be more excited about taking another step forward towards achieving our vision of helping bloggers “own” their content and being heard. We believe everyone and anyone with a story can tell it. During the holiday…
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