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HackerOne opens possibilities for WordPress vulnerability hunting

Brian Krogsgard

May 16, 2017

HackerOne is a popular platform for vulnerability hunting and disclosure, built on a bounty system for properly disclosed software issues. As Aaron Campbell notes on the WordPress blog, "It provides tools that improve the quality and consistency of communication with…

Laura Hazard Owen wrote another great…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Laura Hazard Owen wrote another great post on Nieman Lab, this time closer to home. She featured Longreads, the member-driven journalism site Automattic acquired in 2014. I learned a few things from this feature, including that Automattic is matching $3…

DreamHost is the first host to offer Jetpack commercial option en masse

Brian Krogsgard

May 4, 2017

HostingSecurity

DreamHost has announced a new benefit for DreamPress customers: all customers can get Jetpack's commercial version -- including VaultPress backups and Akismet spam protection -- included in their plan for no additional cost. The deal was structured between Automattic and…

Reliance on third party code

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2017

One of the most challenging components to making decisions in web development is determining when and how strongly to rely on code written by other people. Most of the code we rely on for a website was written by someone…

First web interaction for small businesses

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2017

Business

The great battle for the small business side of the web is for a customer's first web interaction. Want to create a website? Where do you go? That's the battle that every player wants to win: Automattic, GoDaddy, EIG, Envato.…

Matt Mullenweg stopping angel investing, closing SF Automattic office

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2017

I finally listened to the Stack Overflow podcast with Matt Mullenweg. In the second half of the show, I learned a couple of things I didn’t know: Matt said, “something had to go,” when he got back to being involved…

WordPress.com is testing custom plugins and themes for Business plans

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

BusinessHosting

Automattic is testing the ability for Business plan customers to upload custom plugins and themes on WordPress.com. The test has only been open a few days, and they are enabling the feature for around 10 sites per day, so it's…

After the hubub around Jetpack’s decision…

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

After the hubub around Jetpack's decision to become a theme marketplace, Mika Epstein clarified what constitutes an allowed versus not-allowed third party integration for executable code. Not to any fault of Mika or the rest of the plugin team, it…

Automattic introduces a Google Docs integration for writing posts

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Automattic has created a Google Docs integration to write posts directly in Google Docs and create drafts from them in WordPress. I spoke to George Hotelling, one of the primary developers on the project, about the challenges and process of…

Automattic has built an importer for…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

Business

Automattic has built an importer for folks to move from Medium to WordPress.com, and gave a tiny jab to Medium while at it: With the recent news about Medium’s change in business model we’ve been receiving a number of requests…

Eric Binnion explains what he does…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Eric Binnion explains what he does as a "Code Wrangler" at Automattic. This involves more than many would probably guess. If you wanted to know more about Automattic teams, then add Eric's post to your reading list.

John Maseda blogged an excerpt of…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

John Maseda blogged an excerpt of a message he shared within Automattic Design, entitled "Why WordPress?". Highly recommend spending a few minutes to read his thoughts about why WordPress is trust-worthy but especially his point about WordPress - and it's…

Stephane Thomas announced that Automattic has…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Stephane Thomas announced that Automattic has open-sourced two projects recently: Delphin and Delphin Bootstrap. Delphin is the web application that powers get.blog, and is used on other parts of WordPress.com.

WordPress.com digital only ad campaign sign of things to come

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2017

Business

Automattic created a digital only advertisement geared toward the Super Bowl. When it was discovered, some folks thought it may air nationally, either during or around the game. I confirmed with Mark Armstrong of Automattic that it's actually a digital…

WooCommerce switches accounts to utilize WordPress.com credentials

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2017

Security

WooCommerce has officially switched over to require WordPress.com account credentials. The announcement was made by Todd Wilkens, the new lead of WooCommerce within Automattic. Todd was formerly the head of mobile and chat products at Atlassian (HipChat, etc). This change…

Automattic’s WordAds, and other features, now available to paid Jetpack users

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

Jetpack 4.5 has several new features, including a newly designed VideoPress that I look forward to checking out further. But what caught my eye the most is that Automattic is now making WordAds -- their home grown ad platform that…

HackerOne opens possibilities for WordPress vulnerability hunting

Laura Hazard Owen wrote another great…

DreamHost is the first host to offer Jetpack commercial option en masse

Reliance on third party code

First web interaction for small businesses

Matt Mullenweg stopping angel investing, closing SF Automattic office

WordPress.com is testing custom plugins and themes for Business plans

After the hubub around Jetpack’s decision…

Automattic introduces a Google Docs integration for writing posts

Automattic has built an importer for…

Eric Binnion explains what he does…

John Maseda blogged an excerpt of…

Stephane Thomas announced that Automattic has…

WordPress.com digital only ad campaign sign of things to come

WooCommerce switches accounts to utilize WordPress.com credentials

Automattic’s WordAds, and other features, now available to paid Jetpack users

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