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Customizing Twenty Sixteen: Four Takes on Our Annual Theme
Every year we release an annual flagship theme as a blank canvas for bloggers, artists, professionals, and business owners. This year’s creation, Twenty Sixteen, is a gorgeous theme that celebrates a...
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New Theme: Revelar
On this Theme Thursday, I’m happy to present a brand new free theme for your enjoyment. Revelar Designed by Automattic’s own Filipe Varela, Revelar is a single-column blogging theme with a fresh,...
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Field Notes: The Codex Hackathon 2016
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do in the community. This...
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Perspectives on Going Viral
You wake up one morning, check your phone, and spit out your coffee. You have thousands of likes on Facebook, hundreds of retweets, and an inbox that has exploded. Your little blog — which normally...
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A Faster Mobile Web for All WordPress.com Users: AMP Is Here
Your sites are about to get even faster on mobile devices: starting today, WordPress.com sites support Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) – a new initiative spearheaded by Google to dramatically improve...
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Five Engaging Longreads Stories You Might Have Missed
Longreads has been connecting readers with quality stories since 2009, and since joining Automattic in 2014, we’ve published more than 100 pieces of original reporting, essays, and book excerpts from...
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Automattic at CMS Africa Summit
Automatticians, the people behind WordPress.com, can be found in just about every corner of the globe, but it’s not every day that we have the singular opportunity to promote open source software and...
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Get More Readers to Your Business Blog
Blogging is a great way to communicate with your customers and reach new ones. Business owner Phoebe Clare blogs at Sage and Clare, where she documents her exotic trips scouting merchandise for her...
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Exploring Your Dashboard: Four of Our Favorite Tools
A few months ago, we launched a spandy-new post editor, updates to the WordPress.com Reader, and a WordPress.com desktop app. They’re all designed to make publishing and managing your sites easier,...
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HTTPS Everywhere: Encryption for All WordPress.com Sites
Today we are excited to announce free HTTPS for all custom domains hosted on WordPress.com. This brings the security and performance of modern encryption to every blog and website we host. Best of all,...
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