When you buy a WordPress plugin, what are you actually buying? Is it software? Access to support and updates? Something in between?
Do the WordPress.com pricing changes represent an opportunity for the WordPress product ecosystem, a blow to democratized publishing, or the beginning of a slow pivot in the service’s identity away from blogging to managed WordPress hosting?
How did a hate symbol get into WordPress.org? Will more transparent governance help us navigate the age of weaponized open source projects?
An App Store for WordPress.com? Performance Team Gathers Steam. WP Notify. FSE Beta. Block is Beautiful. Security, Plugin, Dev, Acquisitions.
WordPress Multisite isn’t for everyone. So who uses it? How do they use it? Here’s what we heard when David Bisset asked those questions.
Post Status Excerpt, Cory and David discuss some recent conversations in the WordPress community: Is the WordPress writing experience bad for “serious writers?” Does WordPress have to excel in this area, or is it fine to have third-party writing tools that feed into WordPress?
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms of business and product acquisitions, key investments and hires … it says A LOT about…
After Automattic announced it was buying Pocket Casts last week, Joe Casabona explained why he thinks this is a great move. 🎙️ Personally, I think it’s nice to see Automattic taking ownership, and I don’t think this particular move will harm podcasters’ freedom as one might argue that Spotify is doing. It will take a…
Ollie Rozdarz gets into detail about experiments performed last year with the WordPress.com onboarding flow. 🧪
Automattic acquires Day One Automattic has acquired Day One, a free journaling app that has won multiple Apple design awards and is available for most major devices, systems, and browsers. According to Paul Mayne, founder and CEO, work on the app started 10 years ago, and since then it has been downloaded over 15 million…
We have a clarification for the item we reported last week regarding accessibility issues people were having with some recent changes to WordPress.com. We linked to a post where Deborah Edwards-Onoro explained how to enable the Classic Editor for WordPress.com sites. Then we noted a communication from Automattic‘s public relations team about a blog post…
Deborah Edwards-Onoro explains how to enable the Classic Editor at WordPress.com. Why Deborah felt this needed to be published in the first place is an interesting question. There’s an answer: she noticed a blind WordPress.com user couldn’t use the site anymore when WordPress.com launched a refreshed interface. Deborah was surprised this could happen: “What I…
🤖 I’m sorry David, I can’t podcast for you. Spotify recently announced a partnership with WordPress.com that will allow you to convert your blog post to a podcast with text-to-speech functionality, and the audio will be hosted with Anchor. As an example, see TheDesignAir blog. 🗣️ This isn’t new — Amazon‘s Polly has been reading…
A new service from Automattic will build sites on WordPress.com for customers starting at $4,900. How will this impact WordPress freelancers?
Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its “premium website building service” (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for “websites starting at $4,900 USD.” The announcement describes a turnkey service with a personal touch: “You’ll work with a dedicated engagement manager throughout the entire…
Spearhead is a beautiful “blank canvas” WordPress theme that was originally developed for the Spearhead podcast. Designed by Cece Yu and others, it is the first theme on WordPress.com to support dark mode. 🕶️ The theme should be coming soon to WordPress.org. 👍
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