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Automattic Senior Vice President Raanan Bar-Cohen moving to Resolute Ventures

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2014

After seven years with the company, Raanan Bar-Cohen is leaving Automattic for Resolute Ventures, he announced today on his blog. Raanan is a Senior Vice President of Commercial Services at Automattic, and one of its earliest employees. He seems to…

Automattic has raised $160 million for a $1.16 billion company valuation

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2014

WordPress News

Automattic has raised $160 million, led by Insight Venture Partners, Kara Swisher and Liz Gannes report in Re/code. A new fundraising deal has been rumored since mid-April, but just confirmed. This latest round puts Automattic at a $1.16 billion valuation. I'm no expert…

Scroll Kit joins Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2014

WordPress News

Scroll Kit was a story builder of sorts. They marketed themselves for a while by saying you could build "Snowfall", the New York Times' famous article, in an hour with their platform. An article by the founder on Medium about getting into…

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

Mike McAlister has been an active member of the commercial WordPress theme space since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011. And at the end of March of this year, Mike…

Life on trial at Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

April 14, 2014

Careers

Recently, Dave Clements finished a trial at Automattic. In this summary, he describes the experience in detail, from his initial interview and test to his four week trial. There were a few things in the post I didn't already know…

WordPress.com theme directory gets facelift, changes visible data

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2014

Design

The WordPress.com theme directory received a facelift yesterday, as well as some functionality changes. New design The new design isn't a big stretch from the previous one, but it is cleaner and more modern. One item to note is that…

Automattic acquires Longreads

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2014

WordPress News

Longreads is a popular term and hashtag for, well, long reads. Many publishers pride themselves in in-depth articles aimed to capture a reader for a significant period of time. Such stories are quite popular amongst journalistic and hyper-attentive-news-addict circles. The…

WordPress.com has opened applications for commercial themes

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

BusinessDesign

Automattic has added a new page on WordPress.com inviting theme makers to submit their theme shops to the platform. Historically, Automattic has invited particular theme makers to be a part of the WordPress.com commercial theme program. I have heard from some…

The evolution of 10up

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

BusinessDesign

The ecosystem of businesses that have been built around WordPress is huge, but shallow. Few companies are both large (relatively speaking) and central to a broad WordPress community. With 60+ employees, some of which are very well-known WordPress developers, 10up…

Recommendations for improving WordPress comments

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2014

BusinessMake WordPress

There are a number of things that concern me in regard to WordPress comments. They are one of those features that I have a love hate relationship with. Comments are great for active, well moderated communities. I genuinely enjoy receiving…

Legalmattic, Automattic has open sourced their Terms of Service

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2014

Business

The name says it all here. With Legalmattic, Automattic has open sourced some of their legal documents and put them on Github. They are released with a Creative Commons license, free to edit and reuse for your own purposes.

WordPress.com adds partners to lower the barrier to eCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

WordPress.com has new eCommerce options available to its users. Back in March of 2013, they partnered with ShopLocket for their Enterprise and VIP customers to be able to use the eCommerce tools on their WordPress websites. Now, they've added Ecwid…

Managing Jetpack enabled blogs on WordPress.com

Brian Krogsgard

February 15, 2014

WordPress News

I have tons of WordPress.com connected blogs. Some are connected to WordPress.org sites that are mine. Some are connected to WordPress.org sites of one-off clients and friends that I wasn't in the mood to explain Jetpack and WordPress.com too. Some…

Business theme highlight: Forefront

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

I discovered a new WordPress theme today, thanks to a tweet from Ian Stewart, called Forefront. Forefront is a business theme by Automattic that is available on both WordPress.com and on Creative Market for WordPress.org users. Forefront has its own…

Automattic should acquire Editorially

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2014

Business

http://vimeo.com/73479976 Watch the video above. See the beautiful and collaborative writing experience that Editorially built? And now it's gone. Only, why? This seems like a perfect opportunity for Automattic to be able to keep a great project afloat. And it…

WordPress theme performance tips

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2014

DesignWordPress News

Kirk Wight has written a helpful post on the Theme Shaper blog that offers tips on improving performance in WordPress themes. Kirk is a theme wrangler at Automattic and knows his stuff. If you love making themes, but haven't thought…

Automattic Senior Vice President Raanan Bar-Cohen moving to Resolute Ventures

Automattic has raised $160 million for a $1.16 billion company valuation

Scroll Kit joins Automattic

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

Life on trial at Automattic

WordPress.com theme directory gets facelift, changes visible data

Automattic acquires Longreads

WordPress.com has opened applications for commercial themes

The evolution of 10up

Recommendations for improving WordPress comments

Legalmattic, Automattic has open sourced their Terms of Service

WordPress.com adds partners to lower the barrier to eCommerce

Managing Jetpack enabled blogs on WordPress.com

Business theme highlight: Forefront

Automattic should acquire Editorially

WordPress theme performance tips

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