Automattic Products: Democratizing Publishing, Commerce, and Messaging
We’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, Pocket Casts, and more. A lot more. Here are the products we make to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging.
- 100 Year Plan
- ActivityPub
- Automattic.com
- Automattic for Agencies
- Akismet
- Alex Mills’s plugins (Regenerate Thumbnails, Syntax Highlighter)
- The Atavist
- BackPress
- Beeper
- Big Sky
- Blaze / WordAds
- Blocknotes
- BuddyPress
- Cloudup
- Crowdsignal
- Day One
- Domains
- E2E AI (MCP, Telex, etc.)
- Five For The Future / Campus Connect / WordPress Credits
- Gravatar
- Gutenberg / Contribution to Core
- Happy Tools
- Harper
- IntenseDebate
- Jetpack
- Lean Domain Search
- Longreads
- MailPoet
- Newspack
- P2
- Parse.ly
- Pocket Casts
- Pressable
- Sensei
- Simplenote
- Tumblr
- VaultPress
- VideoPress
- WooCommerce
- WordCamp / State of the Word
- WordPress.com
- WordPress Studio
- WordPress.org Plugins & Themes
- WordPress VIP
- WP.Cloud
- WP Job Manager
- WP Scan / WP Super Cache / bbPress
100 Year Plan
Premium WordPress.com hosting with a century-long commitment, designed to preserve digital legacy and ensure your content outlives you. Individuals and organizations thinking about permanence can secure their digital presence for generations, with guaranteed hosting and domain renewal. The 100 Year Plan takes “democratizing publishing” to its logical conclusion, making the web a place where your work can genuinely last.
ActivityPub
The protocol plugin that connects WordPress to the Fediverse, letting WordPress sites publish to and interact with Mastodon, PixelFed, and other decentralized social networks. Bloggers and publishers who believe in open social networking can join the federated web without abandoning WordPress. ActivityPub integration is Automattic betting on—and building—a future where social networking is distributed and user-controlled, not corporate-owned.
Automattic.com
The corporate website that explains who Automattic is, what we do, and why it matters; serving job seekers, journalists, partners, and curious citizens of the web. Anyone wanting to understand Automattic’s mission, culture, and impact can find our story told honestly and accessibly. It’s transparency as policy: showing how a distributed company of hundreds can build products used by billions while staying true to open source values.
Automattic for Agencies
A unified dashboard where digital agencies manage multiple client sites, handle billing, and access Automattic products at scale. Web professionals running agencies get efficiency and control over their WordPress business without juggling separate accounts and services. This tool acknowledges agencies as crucial partners in the WordPress ecosystem, giving them the infrastructure to grow their practice.
Akismet
The spam-fighting service that has protected blog comments and form submissions since 2005, now blocking billions of spam messages across millions of sites. Anyone running a WordPress site with user interaction gets reliable, nearly invisible protection from irrelevant, spam comments. Akismet keeps online conversations human by removing the noise, making open commenting viable for independent publishers.
Alex Mills’s plugins (Regenerate Thumbnails, Syntax Highlighter)
Widely-used utilities created by longtime Automattician Alex Mills to solve specific WordPress problems elegantly and reliably. Millions of WordPress users benefit from these focused tools that do one thing well: from fixing image sizes to displaying code beautifully. These plugins exemplify our culture of contribution—employees building useful tools for the community, because making WordPress better is what we do.
The Atavist
A digital magazine that publishes one immersive piece of longform journalism per month, nothing more, nothing less. Readers who value depth over volume get a single, beautifully produced narrative nonfiction story each issue, covering crime, adventure, culture, and human experience with the care usually reserved for books. The Atavist proves that the internet can be a home for literary ambition, not just content.
BackPress
A PHP library extracting core WordPress functionality for use in other applications: essentially, WordPress’s engine without the CMS. Developers building PHP applications can use WordPress’s proven code for user management, database abstraction, and more without having to install full WordPress. BackPress represents WordPress’s DNA made reusable, proving that good open-source code creates value beyond its original purpose.
Beeper
A universal chat app that unifies messages from WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and more into a single interface. For anyone overwhelmed by notifications across multiple messaging platforms, Beeper restores calm and empowers users by consolidating conversations without forcing friends to switch apps. It democratizes messaging by breaking down the walled gardens that fragment our digital communications.
Big Sky
Automattic’s AI content generation and editing suite, integrated directly into WordPress. Writers, marketers, and site owners can generate drafts, refine copy, and overcome creative blocks without leaving their editor. It’s AI that serves the writer—not replacing the human voice but amplifying it—making sophisticated content creation accessible to everyone from solo bloggers to newsrooms.
Blaze / WordAds
Advertising tools that let WordPress site owners monetize their content and promote their work across the Automattic network. Bloggers and small publishers can earn revenue from quality ads without dealing with troublesome ad networks or problematic platforms, while advertisers reach engaged readers on premium WordPress sites. These tools democratize media economics, helping independent publishers sustain their work and grow their audience.
Blocknotes
A fast, simple notes app for iPhone that syncs with Simplenote, built for people who want to capture thoughts without friction. Anyone who needs to jot down ideas quickly gets a clean, focused writing space that stays out of their way. Blocknotes is note-taking reduced to its essence: open it, write, done!
BuddyPress
Social networking in a box: a WordPress plugin that adds profiles, activity streams, groups, and messaging to any WordPress site. Communities, organizations, and educators who want social features without surrendering to corporate platforms can build their own social network on their own domain. BuddyPress keeps social networking open and distributed.
Cloudup
A simple file sharing service that lets you upload anything and share it with a link. No accounts required for recipients, no restrictions on file types. Anyone who needs to share files quickly without email attachments or complicated cloud storage gets a tool that just works. Cloudup removes the friction from file sharing, making it as easy as sharing a URL.
Crowdsignal
Polls, surveys, quizzes, and ratings that embed easily in WordPress or any website, helping publishers understand what their audience thinks. Bloggers, marketers, and researchers who want quick feedback get simple tools for gathering opinions and data. Crowdsignal makes audience research accessible to independent publishers who can’t afford enterprise survey platforms.
Day One
A premium journaling app for iOS, Android, and Mac that treats personal writing with the care and security it deserves. Thoughtful individuals who value reflection and memory-keeping get a beautiful, private space for daily entries, photos, and life documentation. Day One extends Automattic’s publishing mission into the most intimate realm, helping people preserve and understand their own stories.
Domains
Domain registration and management integrated directly into WordPress.com, without the dark patterns and upsells that plague traditional registrars. Anyone launching a site gets transparent pricing, easy DNS management, and seamless connection to their WordPress installation. Simple domain ownership for everyone, which matters because your domain name is your identity online.
E2E AI (MCP, Telex, etc.)
Automattic’s infrastructure for connecting AI models to real-time data and services across its product ecosystem (MCP, Telex, etc.). Developers and power users can build AI agents that interact with WordPress, WooCommerce, and other Automattic properties through standardized protocols. This technology makes AI integration practical and accessible for publishers and businesses, extending automation and intelligence throughout the content creation and commerce workflow.
Five For The Future / Campus Connect / WordPress Credits
Programs that invest in WordPress’s open source ecosystem by sponsoring contributor time through Five For The Future, connecting students with the community through Campus Connect, and providing credits for hosting and services through WordPress Credits. Companies, universities, and individual contributors can participate in sustaining the software that powers 43% of the web. These initiatives ensure WordPress remains healthy, innovative, and accessible by distributing both the responsibility and benefits of open source stewardship.
Gravatar
Globally recognized avatars that follow you across the web. Upload your profile picture once, and it appears everywhere you comment or interact. Anyone participating in online conversations gets consistent identity across millions of sites without creating separate accounts. Gravatar solved profile pictures for the open web back in 2007, and continues to serve billions of avatar requests daily, proving that simple, decentralized solutions can scale.
Gutenberg / Contribution to Core
Automattic’s substantial investment in WordPress’s block editor and core development, with dozens of employees dedicating their work to the open-source project. The entire WordPress community benefits from features, fixes, and innovations that Automattic funds and develops publicly. This contribution ensures WordPress remains competitive and modern while staying true to its open source foundation. It’s leading by serving.
Happy Tools
Internal tools and platforms that help Automatticians work asynchronously across time zones, managing projects, communication, and collaboration in a distributed company. While built for Automattic’s unique remote-first culture, these tools represent experiments in how modern companies can operate without offices or traditional hierarchies. Some eventually become products; all inform Automattic’s philosophy of distributed work.
Harper
An open source grammar and language quality checker built for privacy and local processing. Writers and developers who need writing assistance without sending their text to corporate servers get a tool that runs locally and respects their intellectual property. Harper represents Automattic’s belief that helpful AI doesn’t require surrendering your data: good tools can be both powerful and private.
IntenseDebate
A comment system that adds threading, reputation, and moderation features to any blog or website. Publishers who want richer discussions than basic blog comments get a system that encourages real conversation, without requiring readers to create another account. IntenseDebate proved that blog comments could be social and sophisticated years before social platforms dominated online discourse.
Jetpack
A Swiss Army knife for self-hosted WordPress sites, bundling security, performance, and growth tools that would otherwise require a dozen plugins and considerable installation and technical management expertise. Site owners and agencies get backup, malware scanning, CDN acceleration, analytics, and marketing features in one package, letting them focus on content instead of infrastructure. Jetpack extends WordPress.com’s reliability and scale to the broader WordPress ecosystem, protecting and empowering millions of independent publishers.
Lean Domain Search
A smart domain name generator that suggests available .com domains by combining your keywords with thousands of common words. Entrepreneurs and creators stuck on naming get instant inspiration with real-time availability checking. It’s a small tool that solves a big problem. After all, finding a good domain name shouldn’t be harder than building the site itself.
Longreads
A publication and curation platform that has championed the best longform writing on the web since 2010. Readers who want to sink into something substantial (essays, criticism, reported features, and narrative journalism) get a curated daily feed of editors’ picks alongside original Longreads commissions. In a media landscape optimized for clicks and skimmability, Longreads insists that slow, deep reading still matters, and that great writing deserves a dedicated home.
MailPoet
Email marketing and newsletter tools built directly into WordPress, letting publishers grow and communicate with their audience without third-party services. Bloggers, small businesses, and site owners can build email lists, send newsletters, and manage subscribers from the same dashboard where they create content. MailPoet makes email marketing accessible to independent publishers who want to own their audience relationships.
Newspack
A WordPress-based platform designed specifically for small and medium-sized news organizations, bundling publishing tools, reader revenue features, and advertising technology. Local newsrooms and nonprofit journalism organizations get enterprise-quality infrastructure at affordable prices, with features built for their specific needs. Newspack supports journalism in the public interest, helping independent news organizations survive and serve their communities.
P2
WordPress as a team collaboration platform, turning the familiar blog format into a real-time workspace for distributed teams. Companies and groups who work asynchronously get threaded conversations, document sharing, and searchable history without the chaos of chat-first tools. P2 is how Automattic itself works: it’s our knowledge base, meeting room, and institutional memory. Now available to anyone who values thoughtful, documented collaboration.
Parse.ly
Analytics for digital publishers and content marketers who need to understand not just traffic, but how audiences actually engage with content. Media companies, B2B marketers, and editorial teams get insights into which stories resonate, how readers flow through their sites, and what content drives business results. Parse.ly helps publishers make smarter decisions—grounded in real reader behavior—about what to create and how to distribute it.
Pocket Casts
A beloved podcast app for iOS, Android, and the web that treats listening as a first-class experience, not an afterthought. Podcast fans get powerful playlist automation, cross-device syncing, and discovery features that respect their intelligence. Pocket Casts champions open podcasting standards over proprietary platforms, ensuring podcasts remain accessible to everyone regardless of which app or service they prefer.
Pressable
Managed WordPress hosting for agencies, freelancers, and businesses who need performance and reliability without Enterprise-level pricing. Digital professionals get fast servers, automatic backups, staging environments, and expert WordPress support that understands their workflow. Pressable makes premium hosting accessible to working professionals, not just large organizations with big budgets.
Sensei
A learning management system built as a WordPress plugin, turning any WordPress site into a platform for courses, quizzes, and student management. Educators, trainers, and entrepreneurs who want to teach online get a system that integrates with their existing site instead of forcing them (and their customers) onto a separate platform. Sensei democratizes online education by making course creation accessible to anyone who can publish to WordPress.
Simplenote
A minimal notes app that syncs across all your devices, including iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, and your browser. Built for people who just want their notes everywhere without complexity. Anyone who takes notes—writers, students, professionals—gets a tool that’s fast, searchable, and utterly reliable. Simplenote has stayed true to its name for over a decade: simple notes, done right, available everywhere.
Tumblr
The original home of internet counterculture, fandom, and creative expression; a blogging platform where weird thrives and communities form around shared obsessions. Artists, writers, and passionate fans find an audience that gets them, with tools for multimedia storytelling and social discovery that mainstream platforms can’t match. Tumblr keeps alive the early web’s spirit of creative freedom and authentic self-expression.
VaultPress
Real-time backup and security scanning for WordPress sites, now integrated into Jetpack but originally a standalone service. Site owners get peace of mind knowing their content is continuously backed up and restorable with a few clicks. VaultPress protects independent publishers from the catastrophic loss that could end their online presence, ensuring WordPress sites can survive disasters and attacks.
VideoPress
Ad-free video hosting and player integrated with WordPress, offering privacy-respecting, high-quality streaming without YouTube’s tracking or commercial interruptions. Content creators and businesses who value their viewers’s experience get fast, reliable video delivery with clean embed codes and no algorithmic manipulation. VideoPress lets publishers control their video content the way they control their written content: completely.
WooCommerce
The open-source ecommerce platform that transforms WordPress sites into online stores, powering everything from artisan shops to multinational retailers. Entrepreneurs and businesses of any size can sell physical products, digital downloads, or subscriptions without vendor lock-in or prohibitive fees. WooCommerce democratizes commerce by giving merchants complete ownership of their customer relationships and data, while providing the flexibility to grow on their own terms.
WordCamp / State of the Word
The global conference series WordCamp and the annual keynote State of the Word that bring the WordPress community together for learning, networking, and celebrating open source. Developers, designers, business owners, and enthusiasts gather locally and globally to share knowledge and strengthen the human connections that sustain WordPress. These events embody WordPress’s democratic values: accessible, affordable, and genuinely inclusive.
WordPress.com
The heart of Automattic’s mission—a hosted platform that lets anyone anywhere publish a blog, portfolio, or business site without wrestling with servers or installation headaches. For individuals, entrepreneurs, and organizations who need a reliable home for their ideas and commerce, WordPress.com removes technical barriers while preserving creative control. It democratizes publishing by making the world’s most powerful content management system accessible to everyone, from first-time bloggers to enterprise publishers.
WordPress Studio
A local development environment that simplifies building and testing WordPress sites on your computer before deploying them to production. Developers and designers get a fast, friendly way to experiment without the complexity of virtual machines. Studio lowers the barrier to WordPress development, helping the next generation of contributors and professionals learn the platform.
WordPress.org Plugins & Themes
Hundreds of free plugins and themes that Automattic contributes to the WordPress.org directory, from Jetpack to niche utilities used by millions. The entire WordPress community benefits from these tools, which set quality standards and solve common problems without cost. This massive contribution of free software is Automattic putting resources behind WordPress’s open source promise: creating value that anyone can use, modify, and build upon.
WordPress VIP
Enterprise WordPress hosting and services for publishers, universities, and corporations with complex requirements and serious traffic. Organizations like CNN, Salesforce, and Facebook use VIP for its scalability, security, and white-glove support that handles everything from architecture to performance optimization. VIP proves that open source WordPress can power the world’s most demanding digital properties without compromise.
WP.Cloud
Managed WordPress hosting built by the people who know WordPress best, offering speed, security, and support that lets agencies and developers focus on building instead of server administration. Digital professionals get WordPress.com’s infrastructure without limitations, with full SSH access and git deployment. It’s professional hosting that respects the autonomy of developers while providing enterprise-grade reliability.
WP Job Manager
A plugin for creating job boards on WordPress sites, used by companies, recruiters, and niche communities to post and manage job listings. Organizations running their own job boards get a flexible system that integrates with their WordPress site instead of relying on external job platforms. WP Job Manager helps communities and companies own (not rent) their recruiting process.
WP Scan / WP Super Cache / bbPress
Essential WordPress utilities that solve fundamental problems: WP Scan finds security vulnerabilities, WP Super Cache makes sites blazingly fast, and bbPress adds forum functionality. These tools, maintained by Automattic, serve millions of WordPress users who need reliable solutions to common challenges. They’re infrastructure for the WordPress ecosystem—unglamorous but critical, like plumbing and electricity for the web.
Minus a few goodies still in development, that’s our full product portfolio. It’s a sprawling ecosystem united by a single mission: making publishing, messaging, and commerce accessible to everyone, not just corporations and technical elites. Thanks for visiting! If you’d like to work here, let us hear from you.
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