Category Archives: Blog

Our special projects team was eager to build Beeper a new blogging home. Here’s the beautiful result. Automattic recently welcomed Beeper, an all-in-one messaging app, to our umbrella of life-improving apps. (If you haven’t yet, check out Day One, Pocket Casts, and Tumblr, too!)   Since Beeper joined a company best known for its world-class WordPress […]

For a limited time, we’ll move your existing WordPress site from any host to WordPress.com for free.  If your WordPress website is hosted somewhere other than WordPress.com, we’d love for you to ask one simple question: Why?  Maybe you started there because of a stellar pricing deal on hosting and just stayed put for years. […]

Doc Pop and Evan Prodromou discuss the past, present, and future of ActivityPub and the fediverse. Jeremy Anderberg In this episode of the Fediverse Files, Doc Pop talks with ActivityPub co-creator Evan Prodromou. ActivityPub is a fediverse technology that’s akin to what RSS is for podcasts and blog feeds; it’s the foundational element that connects […]

Seven things every WordPress user should know about Gravatar Gravatar, short for Globally Recognized Avatar, is a powerful service from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. For over two decades, Gravatar has been the driving force behind billions of avatar views across the web. Beyond WordPress, you’ll find Gravatar powering user profiles on platforms like ChatGPT, […]

From the team at Jetpack AI comes a new tool that will improve your writing in a flash. Noam Almosnino At WordPress.com, writing isn’t just a task. It’s how we think. Automattic is a globally distributed company, which means our work is almost always done asynchronously. For us, written communication is oxygen. But that communication […]

Have you heard the term “fediverse” and wondered what the heck it is? Doc Pop is here to explain. And no, it’s not a cheese pun. Jeremy Anderberg You’ve probably seen it on social media and in headlines around the web in the last few years: the fediverse. But what is it, really? A Boba […]

At WordPress.com, our goal is to provide the best tools for WordPress developers and agencies.  We built Studio for that reason. Our free local WordPress development environment launched a few months ago; it’s based on Electron and is currently available for Mac and Windows. Plus, we have big exciting updates coming for Studio users soon. […]

The short answer is: You’ll be eligible for a piece of the pie, plus increased traffic to your website. WordPress.com Staff One of our key values at Automattic is that access to knowledge, software, and media is for everyone, not just the gatekeepers. That’s why we’ve built our company on the foundation of open source […]

Endoh Collaborative harnesses the power of Automattic for Agencies to spend more time on their clients. Jeremy Anderberg Endoh Collaborative is blazing a unique and powerful trail as a queer-owned, feminist digital agency. Their aim is to create effective, engaging, and accessible websites and visual brands to help nonprofits, purpose-driven businesses, and progressive organizations. Ultimately, […]

Whether it’s “Made with love and WordPress” or “Bob Ross rocks,” you can now customize footer credits on your website. From the earliest days of WordPress.com, the bottom of every site on our platform has featured a default phrase in the footer credit area. Today, we’re handing the reigns over to you: every website using […]