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Automattic has a product called WordAds…

January 4, 2016

Automattic has a product called WordAds that, until now, was only available to bloggers on WordPress.com. Now it's available to Jetpack enabled websites using the new AdControl plugin. If you have a site with at least 1,000 views per month…

Core committers: who are they?

Brian Krogsgard

January 4, 2016

Despite the truth, a lot of people love to conflate Automattic with the WordPress core development team. Helen Hou-Sandí noted that of 35 WordPress core committers, 22 do not work at Automattic. Aaron Jorbin took that number and went further.…

WordPress.com Desktop app now on Windows, Linux, and open source

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2015

The release of the WordPress.com Desktop app (codenamed Calypso) is now on Windows and Linux in addition to Mac. You can now use the app anywhere, and they've open sourced the desktop app itself. The internals of the app were…

Marketing added to Make WordPress network

Brian Krogsgard

December 15, 2015

A Marketing subsite has been added to the Make WordPress network. Sara Rosso -- the Director of Marketing at Automattic -- made the call for the new channel, and will be one of the moderators. She cited the WordPress Security whitepaper (created…

The origins of Wapuu

Brian Krogsgard

December 15, 2015

Who doesn't love Wapuu, the adorable Japanese WordPress mascot? Nick Hamze shared a great post about the origins of the mascot: In 2009 at the WordCamp Tokyo after-party, Matt asked Japanese users what should we do to promote WordPress in…

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, released

Brian Krogsgard

December 8, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, has been released. Clifford includes infrastructure for the WordPress REST API, taxonomy and comment improvements, as well as the new Twenty Sixteen default theme, the ability to embed posts anywhere, and much more.

State of the Word, 2015

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg has just completed the 2015 State of the Word, the annual speech where he highlights the last year of everything WordPress and what we can anticipate in the future.

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

DraftHosting

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.

The WordPress swag store, finally revamped

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

The WordPress swag store -- or more accurately perhaps, the Automattic swag store with WordPress stuff in it -- has finally been revamped, and now runs WooCommerce. Now under the domain mercantile.wordpress.org, the new store looks nice, and has some new…

Extra bits and bobs around the new WordPress.com Calypso project

Brian Krogsgard

November 24, 2015

Phew, it's been a bit of a whirlwind couple of days, and I don't work at Automattic. The Calypso project sparked a lot of conversation, and confusion. Calypso is the name of the effort, but the result was the WordPress.com…

Automattic has released an open source WordPress.com Mac app

Brian Krogsgard

November 23, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Calypso is an ambitious Mac app from Automattic to bring the WordPress publishing and site management experience to the desktop.

Tracey Rotton makes a good case…

November 13, 2015

Tracey Rotton makes a good case for WordPress certifications. It’s a great conversation to have. I just a) don’t think Automattic or the foundation are really good options to run such a thing, and b) think that running an official…

A chat with Barry Kooij, on running an indie plugin shop

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2015

Barry Kooij (pronounced "Coy", America! I just learned it...) runs Never5, an independent plugin shop. He's been running Never5 for a while, but went full time in July after the Woothemes acquisition to Automattic was made official. He has four…

WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software

Brian Krogsgard

October 26, 2015

The Toast is a popular blog that recently underwent a redesign, and includes an in-depth series on the Responsive Web Design blog going over many of the implementation and process details. The series doesn't speak particularly highly (or accurately) about…

Two AMAs to make you smarter

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2015

Business

Two AMAs happened today with people I respect a lot, in different walks of life. AMA with Pippin Williamson Pippin Williamson, you all know, makes plugins. He did a great AMA on ManageWP. I'm going to steal some nuggets: On…

WooCommerce was release four years ago.…

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2015

Hosting

WooCommerce was release four years ago. It's amazing. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was paying close attention to JigoShop at the time, and following the saga of WooThemes trying to come up with an eCommerce solution. The…

Automattic has a product called WordAds…

Core committers: who are they?

WordPress.com Desktop app now on Windows, Linux, and open source

Marketing added to Make WordPress network

The origins of Wapuu

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, released

State of the Word, 2015

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

The WordPress swag store, finally revamped

Extra bits and bobs around the new WordPress.com Calypso project

Automattic has released an open source WordPress.com Mac app

Tracey Rotton makes a good case…

A chat with Barry Kooij, on running an indie plugin shop

WordPress shortcomings, from developers that prefer other software

Two AMAs to make you smarter

WooCommerce was release four years ago.…

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