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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released…

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Brian Krogsgard

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released its annual Who Has Your Back? report. It's natural to feel a sense of pride that WordPress.com got a perfect score. EFF awarded stars for following industry-wide best practices, fighting for user privacy, and…

Free speech, privacy, and the web

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Brian Krogsgard
Web-based hosts, platforms, and businesses need a plan for how they'll handle issues around free speech and privacy rights for their users and customers.

Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn’s…

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Brian Krogsgard

Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn's presentation at a recent London meetup: how Human Made moved one of the largest UK newspapers, the Sun, from a print-oriented CMS to WordPress and WordPress.com VIP. As you can imagine the undertaking was huge and…

Much more interesting than a regular…

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Brian Krogsgard
Much more interesting than a regular Jetpack upgrade is how (as I predicted) Jetpack is bringing "professional themes" to the plugin, effectively making it a full-on marketplace. I am very, very interested in how that's going to work, specifically in…

WordPress.com has yet more commercials out…

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Brian Krogsgard

WordPress.com has yet more commercials out — in 30 second and 15 second formats — titled, "Share what you love at WordPress.com." This time they are related to hobbies and people standing on baskets. I guess they are meant to…

WordPress.com news is coming hard and…

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WordPress.com news is coming hard and fast these days, especially user interface stuff. The new media experience within Calypso is looking pretty nice, and could serve as yet-another template for an improved .org version down the road. They've also updated…

Varying Vagrant Vagrants has released version…

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Brian Krogsgard

Varying Vagrant Vagrants has released version 2.0.0, and this official release post goes into some of the new bits. There's a new method for configuring VVV, including the ability to choose PHP 5.6, 7.0, or 7.1 for your project and…

Automattic introduces a Google Docs integration for writing posts

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Brian Krogsgard

Automattic has created a Google Docs integration to write posts directly in Google Docs and create drafts from them in WordPress. I spoke to George Hotelling, one of the primary developers on the project, about the challenges and process of…

Automattic has built an importer for…

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Brian Krogsgard
Automattic has built an importer for folks to move from Medium to WordPress.com, and gave a tiny jab to Medium while at it: With the recent news about Medium’s change in business model we’ve been receiving a number of requests…

Riad Benguella recently announced on the…

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Dan Knauss

Riad Benguella recently announced on the WordPress.com developer blog the launch of the Open Source WordPress API console. This is an application that allows you to make read and write requests to the WordPress.com API or the WordPress REST API…

Tom J Nowell, VIP Wrangler at…

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Dan Knauss

Tom J Nowell, VIP Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP for Automattic, covers what's new in Varying Vagrant Vagrants (version 2.0). Tom states that it's "undergone a small transformation for the better" and i would agree. The provisioning system for VVV has…

WordPress.com digital only ad campaign sign of things to come

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Brian Krogsgard
Automattic created a digital only advertisement geared toward the Super Bowl. When it was discovered, some folks thought it may air nationally, either during or around the game. I confirmed with Mark Armstrong of Automattic that it's actually a digital…

WooCommerce switches accounts to utilize WordPress.com credentials

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Brian Krogsgard
WooCommerce has officially switched over to require WordPress.com account credentials. The announcement was made by Todd Wilkens, the new lead of WooCommerce within Automattic. Todd was formerly the head of mobile and chat products at Atlassian (HipChat, etc). This change…
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