This might not be news to some, but I recently discovered Automattic has provided some tools for theme builders.
Also, they’ve redesigned Themeshaper again with the nicest Twenty Sixteen child theme I’ve seen yet.
Automattic announced that all Simple note clients (iOS, Android, and macOS Apps) are now open source under the GPLv2 license. As you might recall, Simplenote was acquired by Automattic in 2013. I’m a big fan of Simplenote and use it every day. I hope that open sourcing it proves beneficial for the product.
Lori McLeese, the HR Lead at Automattic for the past five years, shares her wisdom on vacation policies. Automattic’s earned sabbatical policy is perhaps their greatest benefit; it’s really amazing. However, I’m personally a fan of “minimum” vacation policies versus open ones — though both are certainly better than maximum leave policies. From my experience on the employee…
Konstantin Obenland will be lead on WordPress 4.3, after a number of years of experience as a contributor. His focus has historically been on themes, but he’s been involved in many aspects of WordPress. Konstantin works at Automattic as a Code Wranger. Scott Taylor will be lead on WordPress 4.4. Scott is a prolific contributor, and probably knows as…
Jeremey DuVall — a support team lead and Happiness Engineer at Automattic — shares how to manage negativity with your customers on the HelpScout blog.
After seven years with the company, Raanan Bar-Cohen is leaving Automattic for Resolute Ventures, he announced today on his blog. Raanan is a Senior Vice President of Commercial Services at Automattic, and one of its earliest employees. He seems to know everyone in Silicon Valley, and has had his hand in many (at the least)…
The WordPress swag store — or more accurately perhaps, the Automattic swag store with WordPress stuff in it — has finally been revamped, and now runs WooCommerce. Now under the domain mercantile.wordpress.org, the new store looks nice, and has some new merchandise available in time for WCUS. Formerly, the store was a Hello Merch store, which…
