From across Automattic.
Updates from all of Automattic’s business units.
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Meet a WooCommerce Happiness Engineer: Julia
WooCommerce Happiness Engineer Julia Amosova shares her team name’s unexpected astronomical implications and gives some encouraging advice on preparing to apply for a job at Automattic. Read more about this video series here.
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Synthesizing usability test results
This week we got another usability study in the books by testing the most recent iteration of our signup and onboarding flow. Thanks to some help from our design operations team I was able to pull it off without a hitch. All I had to do was fill in a request, slightly massage a template…
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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on building a fully distributed company
Automattic editor Mark Armstrong turns the interview table on our host, Matt Mullenweg, to discuss how Automattic became one of the biggest fully distributed companies in the world. For more, go to Distributed.blog. Produced by Mark Armstrong and the team at Charts & Leisure: Jason Oberholtzer, Whitney Donaldson, Cole Stryker, Levi Sharpe, and Michael Simonelli. Theme music by Jason Oberholtzer. Cover art by Matt Avery.
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Offline Principles
<img src="https://mobiledotblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/principle3.jpg"> <p>Many of us design and build apps in air-conditioned offices in major cities, using the latest devices with perfect internet connections. We don’t often think about how apps should work without a strong internet connection.</p> <p>It's no wonder so many apps feel clunky or broken with a flaky internet connection, or none at all…</p> <p>We decided to question ourselves, and to start treating the offline state as a core part of the experience rather than an edge case. While not everything can happen offline, plenty of tasks like writing a blog post should still work regardless of your connection…</p>
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Offline Principles
Cowritten with Megs Fulton Many of us design and build apps in air-conditioned offices in major cities, using the latest devices with perfect internet connections. We don’t often think about how apps should work without a strong internet connection. It’s no wonder so many apps feel clunky or broken with a flaky internet connection,…
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What is a Creative Technologist?
Within Automattic Design, we have two communities of practice: “creative technology” and “product experience”. Every designer falls into one of these two communities. Having this distinction helps us to create balanced teams, as well as sharpen craft and develop mastery among our designers. What is a creative technologist? For our purposes, the basic distinction of…
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Want to See a More Diverse WordPress Contributor Community? So Do We.
More diverse speakers at WordCamps means a more diverse community contributing to WordPress — and that results in better software for everyone.
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How to Create a Vlog With WordPress.com
Vlogging can be an opportunity to increase brand awareness and monetize your content. Learn how to create a vlog on your WordPress.com site.
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🌶 Spicy topics
Recently, the design team I lead was going through a period of low morale. I noticed this through conversations in 1-1s, our team Slack channel, and most notably in our team meetings. The designers were all working on some very big product problems and while the work was really challenging, the rewarding aspect seemed to…
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Jetpack 7.4.1 Fixes a Conflict with the Gutenberg Plugin
Jetpack 7.4.1 is now available for download, and fixes an issue with Jetpack's Contact Form block if you use the latest version of the Gutenberg plugin on your site.
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Design Collaboration Meetup
Last week we held our first “Design Collaboration Meetup” connecting across product, dev, support, marketing, and human resources. And of course … design! At the gathering we were able to distribute our new playbooks and connect IRL in super high-bandwidth form compared with how we normally operate as a fully-distributed company. The gathering was opened…
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Is remote work ‘Bull***t’?
A distributed work skeptic shares her concerns with the model along with recent blockchain innovations.
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VC Arianna Simpson on Distributed Work and the Blockchain
A distributed work skeptic shares her concerns with the model along with recent blockchain innovations. For more, go to Distributed.blog. Produced by Mark Armstrong and the team at Charts & Leisure: Jason Oberholtzer, Whitney Donaldson, Cole Stryker, Levi Sharpe, and Michael Simonelli. Theme music by Jason Oberholtzer. Cover art by Matt Avery.
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Do You Need Cookie Consent and Privacy Notices for Your Site?
Has the new GDPR law left you confused? Here's what you need to know and what you need to do about cookie consent and privacy notices for your website.
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Using ML for Campaign Optimization: Our Journey to Marketing Science at Automattic
Demet on using pipe to segment and study how users respond to marketing email campaigns.
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3 Best WordPress Plugins for Restaurants
Here are three of the best WordPress plugins for restaurants to get your online presence up to par and keep your customers coming back.
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On sharing mistakes
At the end of every week, my boss asks us to write down a lesson we learned. Mine are usually due to a slip up I made. Here’s how it goes: I make a mistake, apologize to the person, and end up saying something along the lines of: “I should have done x, lesson learned…
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WordPress SMTP Settings: A How-To Guide for Email
Discover how your WordPress SMTP settings can impact email deliverability, and how you can optimize your configurations for the best results.
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Taking Care of Alex's Plugins
On February 27, 2019, Alex Mills (aka Viper007Bond) passed away at home surrounded by his family after a two and a half year battle with leukaemia. Alex was a gifted developer and a much liked member of the WordPress community. I have always been in awe of everything he did. He contributed to core many…
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Accessibility Standards: Defining What Success Means
Announcing the first pass at Special Projects accessibility standards. Spread the love.
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WordPress API Challenges
<img src="https://mobiledotblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/untitled_artwork-5.png" width="500px;"> <p>WordPress powers over 30% of all web sites, but not all websites using WordPress are the same. Since WordPress is open source software that anyone can download and install on their server, there are countless versions of WordPress running unique configurations.</p> <p>This creates a unique challenge for the WordPress mobile apps: Instead of having a single server with a defined API that we control and manage, we need to support multiple APIs from different WordPress versions and we can never complete trust the data being given back to us…</p>
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Jetpack 7.4: General Maintenance Update
Jetpack 7.4 is now available for download. This is a general maintenance release that aims to fix several bugs and improve the flows around installing and configuring Jetpack on your site.
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Celebrating Pride Month with WordPress.com
Happy Pride Month! At Automattic, we strive to be a platform that democratizes publishing so that anyone can share their stories. This month is a great reminder for why we work hard to expand the open web.
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