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Two step authentication for WordPress.com, Jetpack, and WordPress mobile apps

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2014

A few months ago, I enabled two-factor authentication for WordPress.com. There are a number of reasons I did so. For one, at Range, we sometimes work on WordPress VIP projects, where two step authentication is recommended for about anything that…

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.com and Jetpack enabled sites can now be embedded anywhere

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2014

WordPress News

Automattic has released a feature to create widgets to offer embed-able feeds for WordPress.com and Jetpack enabled blogs, so you can embed your blog anywhere. It looks just like a Twitter feed, but for a blog. From a technical standpoint,…

A self hosted alternative to Jetpack’s Photon service

Brian Krogsgard

January 14, 2014

Development

While Jetpack and its Photon service are useful, it is not a solution fit for everyone, and may users and developers have reservations about integrating with the WordPress.com infrastructure. Will Norris takes the open source approach and has rolled his…

WordPress.com Stats introduces tracking for tags and categories

Brian Krogsgard

November 4, 2013

WordPress News

The WordPress.com blog recently did a post wrapping up a series on "Stats Wrangling" to show bloggers how to better get and analyze traffic. It feels a bit buried, but in this final post in the series it seems they're…

Jetpack 2.5 gets deeper Google and Facebook integrations

Brian Krogsgard

September 19, 2013

WordPress News

Jetpack 2.5 was just released and comes with a number of new features. The most interesting is the new integrations with Google, including the ability to easily embed maps, calendars, and more. For those that are big Facebook users, you…

The Year Without Pants

Brian Krogsgard

September 16, 2013

BusinessWordPress Community

Scott Berkun's The Year Without Pants is a first person narrative of his time employed at Automattic from August 2010 to May 2012. Berkun entered Automattic as employee number fifty six when the company was replacing its totally flat structure…

Faceted search for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 4, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Gibbs, the original creator of the popular Pods Framework, has launched his latest project: FacetWP. FacetWP is a commercial plugin to offer faceted search capability for WordPress. Faceted search, if you're unfamiliar, is an advanced search technique: A technique…

Media Explorer enables easier Tweet and Youtube discovery and embedding

Brian Krogsgard

August 29, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress.com has enabled a featured called Media Explorer that will soon make its way to Jetpack as well. It adds tabs to the left side of the media uploader which enable a discovery / search method to find tweets and…

WordPress.com introduces Connect, a “login with” API

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress.com has introduced a new API today called WordPress.com Connect. It's an API to allow websites and applications to offer login capability for WordPress.com users. It's not surprising Automattic has introduced this feature. After all, they have tons of services that…

Contributing to Jetpack, the guide

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

WordPress News

The Automattic Jetpack team has announced a handy guide for people that want to contribute to Jetpack. I should probably learn from this, as historically, my methods for contributing to Jetpack have been by whining on Twitter. I wish more…

Notifications in WordPress for iOS

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2013

WordPress News

I like this very much. If you're using Jetpack with a self hosted install, you can now get more advanced notifications, and do a bunch of pretty cool stuff from within the iOS app.