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Code should fail nicely

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

Web designers tend to be pretty particular about their designs. However, often times, if you watch how end users use a website, it can be surprising when they don't do things how the designer and developer would expect. Perhaps the…

2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg just delivered the 2013 State of the Word, his annual update about WordPress. He started off discussing the history of WCSF, and the first WordCamp San Francisco 8 years ago. It was pretty low tech at first, and…

WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WP Engine has been working on Torque for a number of months. Their tagline for it, as it turns out, is "The WordPress News Core." Beyond that, they don't particularly say on the site how they plan to frame the…

Why every new employee should do customer support

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

Business

Mel Choyce recently joined Automattic as a Design Engineer. In this post, she talks about her experience doing customer support her first few weeks on the job. This has become a well known stage of employment for those that join…

Automattic acquires domain search website, Lean Domain Search

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

WordPress News

Automattic has acquired Lean Domain Search, a domain search tool. The website allows users to enter a number of usernames they'd like to search, and then creates a nifty table of potential domain names involving those keywords. Founder Matt Mazur…

On WordPress themes and frameworks

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Let's pull the bandaid off real quick, and it won't hurt as bad: Theme Framework has turned into a marketing term. I lean more every day to giving theme framework the premium treatment. Just because a product costs money doesn't…

Automattic acquires popular mobile WordPress app, Poster

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2013

WordPress News

Automattic acquired what is probably the most popular third party WordPress publishing app, Poster. Tom Witkin, Poster's developer, is joining Automattic to work on the official WordPress mobile apps. There's a little more info on Mac Stories, TechCrunch and WP Daily, if you're…

Tiger Global invests $50 million in Automattic secondary stock

Brian Krogsgard

May 24, 2013

WordPress News

Automattic has been making pretty good money for some time. But in order to help early investors lock in returns, they've partnered with Tiger Global for an $50 million investment of Automattic secondary stock. It's not the same as raising…

VaultPress Lite

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2013

WordPress News

VaultPress, the Automattic backup solution, has introduced a "Lite" plan to their repertoire. It allows you to receive daily backups with a thirty day archive for only $5 per month. It also includes their site restore service. This is the first…

A Year Without Pants

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2013

WordPress News

Scott Berkun spent a year working for Automattic as research for his upcoming book, A Year Without Pants. The book will focus on remote work, for which Automattic is well known. Berkun is going to, "share what I learned about…

WordCamp Internet

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2013

WordPress News

I had a thought after seeing Brian's tweet about his #WCATL presentation: "I wish that I could get all these cool WP peeps together & do some kind of WordCamp where we could all meet each other in person." Seeing…

Should Automattic switch to Drupal?

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2013

WordPress News

Haha. I can't even type that title seriously. Matt Mullenweg got a pretty hilarious email telling him perhaps he should consider switching Automattic properties to Drupal. Better get ready.

Matt Mullenweg at SXSW

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg did a short interview with TechCrunch after his SXSW presentation, and he talks about Automattic operating as a remote company, making money without ads, and some of his daily reads. I'm real excited to learn NextDraft (an inspiration behind…

Redesigning Automattic’s websites

Brian Krogsgard

February 21, 2013

Design

Stéphane Thomas has written a post proposing a more unified design aesthetic for various Automattic properties. It's very thorough, including complete home page wireframes with content. Stéphane doesn't work for Automattic, and the post appears to be fairly random, so it…

Are WordPress.com’s verticals falling short?

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

WordPress News

Earlier today, I tweeted (big news, right?) that the WordPress.com verticals that have been launching left and right seem like little more than SEO plays on the landing pages. Well, James Farmer, founder of Edublogs - a huge WordPress Multisite…

WordAds, explained

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2013

WordPress News

The Daily Post on WordPress.com has a post explaining more about the WordAds system on WordPress.com. WordAds is a managed ads system Automattic created for the platform, so bloggers can monetize their blogs. It's relevant, as traditional advertisers like Google…

Code should fail nicely

2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg

WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque

Why every new employee should do customer support

Automattic acquires domain search website, Lean Domain Search

On WordPress themes and frameworks

Automattic acquires popular mobile WordPress app, Poster

Tiger Global invests $50 million in Automattic secondary stock

VaultPress Lite

A Year Without Pants

WordCamp Internet

Should Automattic switch to Drupal?

Matt Mullenweg at SXSW

Redesigning Automattic’s websites

Are WordPress.com’s verticals falling short?

WordAds, explained

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