It’s hard to be creative when you’re worried about money. Running ads on your site helps, but for many creators, ad revenue isn’t enough. Top publishers and creators sustain their businesses by building reliable income streams through ongoing contributions. Our new Recurring Payments feature for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites lets you do just that: it’s a monetization tool for content ...
How you can get the total freedom to create without the hassles that come with managing your own website. The open source WordPress project has given the world a powerful publishing platform that now powers 41% of the web. While this is the most widely adopted CMS on the internet, you’re also going to need a hosting provider to make ...
Millions of new sites created and posts published later, 2014 is in the books. We could regale you with big numbers, like these… Total New Blogs 18,300,771 That’s 49,997 new blogs per day! Total Posts 555,782,547 Or more than 1.5 million per day — not too shabby. 47 million were published from mobile devices, because you’re on the go. Bytes of Data per Hour ...
We are happy to announce WordPress.com for Google Docs, a new add-on that lets you write, edit, and collaborate in Google Docs, then save it as a blog post on any WordPress.com or Jetpack-connected WordPress site. Your images and most formatting will carry over too. No more copy-and-paste headaches! To get started, just go to the Google Web Store page ...
We’re celebrating the New Year with two free themes: Boardwalk and Sela. Boardwalk Designed by yours truly, Boardwalk is a clean, simple, and responsive theme. Powered with horizontal scrolling and built around large featured images, Boardwalk is the perfect choice for photobloggers and those of you looking for an unconventional — yet elegant and creative — theme. Learn more about Boardwalk at the ...
For the past eight years, Review Signal has published its WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks, and 2021’s results are in. We’re happy to report that not only did WordPress.com earn Top Tier status once again, but we were proven to be the fastest WordPress host in any pricing tier. WordPress.com … had perfect 100% uptime on both monitors, zero errors across ...
I like to think that designers solve problems, while artists ask questions. And when the two go hand-in-hand, real magic happens. Why? Because the right question gets answered with the right solution — art asks, and design responds. Here at Automattic we were extremely fortunate to recently get to partner with independent artist and designer Alice Lee, who seamlessly integrates ...
As you look ahead to 2024, if you’ve been thinking about launching a new business, sharing your passion with a blog, or building an audience with a newsletter, now’s the perfect time to get started. To give you a jump start on your goals for the new year, we’re offering 25% off every annual paid plan when you create any ...
In 2014, we discovered how much WordPress.com bloggers want to connect with each other and do more with their blogs — tens of thousands of you have participated in Blogging U since it began a year ago! This year, we’re starting an in-person event series called Press Publish for people who want to take their blogs even further, starting with two ...
Today we’re excited to announce six new themes with an entrepreneurial spin: Calm Business, Elegant Business, Friendly Business, Modern Business, Professional Business, and Sophisticated Business. Designed by Takashi Irie, each theme in this collection is based on a clean, easy-to-navigate layout that’s well-suited to a wide range of businesses — but with six unique styles and tones, there’s a ...
Yesterday, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and Gutenberg Lead Architect Matías Ventura took the stage in Madrid, Spain and offered the WordPress community a recap of 2023’s progress as well as a look ahead to what’s coming in 2024 and beyond. If you missed the livestream, it’s well worth watching. Below, you’ll find the State of the Word video, a short ...
Hi everyone! Check out some of the new updates, designs, and insights that helped make May a great month for the WordPress.com community. What’s new How a Detroit Hackathon Turned into WordPress.com’s First-Ever TV Spots A team of developers launched new sites for small businesses in Detroit during a 48-hour Hackathon in February, an event which inspired the creation of ...
SEO, or search engine optimization, is an essential skill in the digital world, crucial for everyone from beginners to seasoned website operators. Understanding and effectively implementing SEO strategies can dramatically improve your website’s visibility and ranking on search engines, but where do you start? Join us for our upcoming webinar, “SEO Foundations,” to discover techniques for improving your WordPress.com site’s ...
Automatticians, the people who build WordPress.com, participate in events and projects around the world every day. Periodically, they report back on the exciting things they do in the community. This year’s CMS Africa Summit was my third attendance at this amazing conference. My colleagues Marjorie, Sarah, Hannah, and Luminus joined me for the event and in doing so we sent ...
We have some exciting new block editor updates to share with you today including fresh collection of Portfolio block patterns, a new and improved way to embed a preview of PDF documents, and better editing tools for Cover and Buttons blocks. Let’s dive in! One-Click Portfolio Layouts Block patterns are pre-designed templates that make creating beautiful pages a breeze. This ...
Over the past few months we’ve been working to dramatically improve users’ experience on iPad — and we’re proud to share those with you now, in our WordPress app for iOS, available in the iTunes Store. The apps were originally designed with only iPhones in mind, so we wanted to make better use of the space available on the iPad ...
Give an artist a pencil and he’ll draw you his life, give him a paint brush and he’ll color you his world, but give him power point and twenty seconds and he’ll blow your mind!! That’s all Pecha Kucha is about, mind blowing art transforming emotions in to real life experiences. Pecha Kucha Night is the gathering of all artistically driven individuals sharing their ...
stop it!!!! seriously!! enough!!!! whoops.. well sorry about that, the irritating voices in my head have as usual taken over and are running amok ruining a completely good moment.. I’m sure everyone goes through it.. well I hope at least, or else that would mean giving everyone to dispatch me in to a loony bin.. coming back to the voices ...
