WordPress.com has a new post editor, that you can also use if you have a Jetpack enabled WordPress site. Apparently it’s really fast. Improvements like these are important for their platform, and it seems well received in the comments.
Ollie Rozdarz gets into detail about experiments performed last year with the WordPress.com onboarding flow. 🧪
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 for any site on WordPress.com or using Jetpack. It’s also possible to use this with…
Jetpack 3.0 has just shipped with a major overhaul of the admin area. I’ve long desired change, and Jetpack has finally made quite a significant one. The settings page is still very heavily Jetpack branded, but the interface for activating, deactivating, and managing the various modules is vastly improved. In addition to the UI changes,…
We are WordPress As recently reported by The Tavern, Automattic’s marketing team has updated the company’s press page with a notice to journalists who are writing about Automattic: Automattic owns and operates WordPress.com, which is a hosted version of the open source WordPress software with added features for security, speed and support. Please append “.com”…
How did a hate symbol get into WordPress.org? Will more transparent governance help us navigate the age of weaponized open source projects?
Longreads is a popular term and hashtag for, well, long reads. Many publishers pride themselves in in-depth articles aimed to capture a reader for a significant period of time. Such stories are quite popular amongst journalistic and hyper-attentive-news-addict circles. The actual website Longreads has over 125,000 Twitter followers, and has just been acquired by Automattic….
