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Brad Williams pointed this out on…

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

Brad Williams pointed this out on Twitter, and I haven't seen it before: WordPress.com has a page that allows users to inquire about a charge they didn't recognize. You type in your name, last four digits of your card, the…

Automattic has published their year in…

Brian Krogsgard

December 16, 2016

Automattic has published their year in review, which gives a broad look at what happened with the company and the various brands in 2016. The page (which has a nice design, btw) covers Automattic's corporate growth, diversity, and other points…

WordPress.com updated their Reader design. I…

Brian Krogsgard

December 15, 2016

WordPress.com updated their Reader design. I don't use the Reader, but for some folks, its their primary use case of the service. Also in .com news, they've introduced support for VR and 360 degree photos, which is pretty neat. It's…

What a “plugin aware” Calypso looks like

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2016

In my last note, I started talking about the plugin awareness stuff in Calypso and it morphed into a more broad editorial about Automattic's relationship with the WordPress community. But what does plugin awareness really mean in Calypso? After getting…

Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2016

Hosting

I think bringing Automattic resources into core WordPress development to put a huge effort into improving the WordPress editing experience is a good thing. An email went out last week to the authors of all plugins with more than one million active…

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016

Brian Krogsgard

December 3, 2016

BusinessDesign

Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2016 State of the Word, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year, and sets the direction for the year ahead for WordPress.

I’ve been really enjoying Automattic’s data.blog…

Brian Krogsgard

September 22, 2016

I've been really enjoying Automattic's data.blog so far, and Demet Dagdelen's post on Mapping the Communities of WordPress.com was insightful. Demet looked at the blogs in the WordPress.com ecosystem to try to determine which ones are connected to each other…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

BusinessDesign

I have not been stunned -- in a positive way -- about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven't had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven't been really wowed. Twenty Ten…

David A. Kennedy reports that ThemeShaper…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

David A. Kennedy reports that ThemeShaper has created a, "new set of requirements for all themes on WordPress.com to follow, geared toward making themes easier for people to set up and use." The list also makes theme switching a better…

Automattic launched data.blog to share internal data…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Automattic launched data.blog to share internal data analysis, and as another marketing opportunity for the new TLD. Data for Breakfast will feature posts about our data stack, trends in WordPress.com usage, and whatever currently tickles our data fancy. We’re data scientists…

Jetpack 4.3 to include React-based settings, further integrated marketing

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Jetpack 4.3 Beta was announced today, and includes a new React-driven interface, as well as more integrated marketing pitches for the WordPress.com apps and paid upgrades. The new interface is an improvement, but there are several changes functionally. One I noticed…

The WordPress.com REST API now includes…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

The WordPress.com REST API now includes improved support for custom taxonomies. This includes a handful of new endpoints and enhancements to existing endpoints. So you can retrieve a single term or list of terms for a site, create or update…

Ulysses: A Mac writing app that doesn’t suck, and integrates with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2016

I learned about Ulysses from a TechCrunch article, and decided to test it out for myself. I’m about thirty minutes into the process, and so far I’m pretty impressed. It’s sort of a Markdown editor, but they call it “plain text…

WordPress needs bigger data

Brian Krogsgard

August 3, 2016

WordPress needs big data -- knowledge of how the product is used -- to make better decisions as to how to direct the future of the software. To make my point, allow me to drift off into the wonderful world…

This is cool news: WordPress VIP…

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2016

This is cool news: WordPress VIP has announced that India’s rtCamp is the newest member of the WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner Program. (It's also worth noting there's been a good bit of shakeup to that program in the last year,…

The steady move upmarket in WordPress hosting

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2016

Hosting

Media Temple is the latest company to offer an "enterprise" level WordPress hosting option. Their new offering is based on Amazon Web Services and starts at $2,500 per month. From TechCrunch: The standard enterprise plan costs $2,500 per month comes…

Brad Williams pointed this out on…

Automattic has published their year in…

WordPress.com updated their Reader design. I…

What a “plugin aware” Calypso looks like

Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016

I’ve been really enjoying Automattic’s data.blog…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

David A. Kennedy reports that ThemeShaper…

Automattic launched data.blog to share internal data…

Jetpack 4.3 to include React-based settings, further integrated marketing

The WordPress.com REST API now includes…

Ulysses: A Mac writing app that doesn’t suck, and integrates with WordPress

WordPress needs bigger data

This is cool news: WordPress VIP…

The steady move upmarket in WordPress hosting

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