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 hosting and plugin solutions, we knew our special projects crew would love…
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. Maybe their offering was cutting-edge at one time, but now it seems…
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 platforms and allows them to communicate with each other. Doc Pop and Evan…
Reading Time: 8 minutes While “Small Business Ideas for Women” may imply that these businesses are solely for women, it’s important to note that a great business idea is not limited to gender. So, you have a full-time job and have recently considered starting a side business or even transitioning…
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, GitHub, Slack, and many…
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 is not built around email. Instead we use a homegrown internal blogging tool. Since every…
Reading Time: 12 minutes Considering how to start a farm? Starting a farm can be both rewarding and challenging. Before you start a farm business, it is essential to clarify your goals. Ask yourself what you want to achieve with your farm. Are you looking to produce crops, raise livestock,…
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 Fett theme park? A Kevin Federline production? Some sort of cheese pun? In this first episode of our new YouTube series, the Fediverse…
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…
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 principles. And it’s why we’ve decided to partner with Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine that lets…