Karen Arnold and Erica Varlese work on the Happiness Hiring team at Automattic, where they hire new Happiness Engineers who support users on WordPress.com and Automattic products. They met with the Brazilian WordPress community last week and wanted to share their experiences. On August 29th, 2015, we traveled to Brazil to attend WordCamp Rio de Janeiro and meet the Brazilian ...
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee suffered a stroke when she was 33, and she has written about her experience in an inspiring personal essay for BuzzFeed. Before that, she was using a pseudonym on WordPress.com to blog about her experiences, share details about her life, and practice her writing. In 2007, shortly after New Year’s Day, Lee wrote the following in a blog ...
Carving out your very own corner on the web is important to you. You may be a brand-new user on WordPress.com — if so, welcome! — or a veteran blogger returning to an old habit. Recently on the Verge, Lockhart Steele, the editorial director of Vox Media, talked about getting back to blogging. On a noisy internet with many platforms, some ...
Today, we have a brand new free theme for you to enjoy! Harmonic is a unique theme that really lets your content sing. Maybe you’re a band looking to make your home on WordPress.com. Perhaps you’re a photographer looking to showcase your work. You may be a blogger who just wants a theme that looks a bit distinctive. Harmonic has ...
We wanted to update you about an upcoming change Facebook is introducing to their platform, and which affects how you may share posts from your WordPress.com website to your Facebook account. Starting August 1, 2018, third-party tools can no longer share posts automatically to Facebook Profiles. This includes Publicize, the tool for WordPress.com and Jetpack-powered sites that connects your site ...
With COVID-19, the business world has come to a fork in the road: Down one route, shuttered offices. Down the other, companies embracing remote work, showing us how businesses can survive — and thrive! — with a fully remote workforce. And that includes fostering strong team bonds and employee relationships; just because there’s no physical break room or water cooler ...
Here’s the latest collection of our favorite stories from writers and publishers across all of WordPress. You can find our past collections here — and you can follow Longreads on WordPress.com for more daily reading recommendations. Keep these stories coming: share links to essays and interviews (over 1,500 words) on Twitter (#longreads) and WordPress.com by tagging your posts longreads. * ...
Happy Pride Month! Last year, I shared resources and highlighted organizations doing awesome work in the LGBTQ+ community. This year, I’m excited to tell you more about Out in Tech, an organization that Automattic has partnered with for the past four years. I’m proud to say that this year, the Queeromattic Employee Resource Group — an employee-led collective for LGBTQ+ ...
Remote work is a prominent topic lately, as people around the world are doing their best to live their lives and keep themselves and their families safe and prepared during the COVID-19 outbreak. The impact of this outbreak is felt across societies and cultures as well as in the workplace. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is a primarily distributed company ...
Catch the popular Music Awards show on the 20th of May at 8-11pm ET/PT on ABC. Billboard explains: The Billboard Music Awards reflect Billboard’s chart rankings based on key fan interactions with music, including album sales and downloads, track downloads, radio airplay and touring as well as streaming and social interactions on Facebook, Twitter, Vevo, [...]
The Filipino powerhouse is back with her debut video for her upcoming album Infinity already available in Japan. The video doesn’t depict anything special apart from Charice & her backup dancers performing at various backdrops which is quite common. It’s a catchy song, nonetheless. More Info rating: ♥♥ This clip was recorded from somebody’s TV set hence the dull ...
Thanks to a blogger on the local blogosphere I was able to get hold of Ashanthi’s version of Lil Wayne’s touching single “How To Love”. Mind you, this isn’t the American R&B songstress Ashanti know for a chat topping numbers back in the day. This is Sri Lanka’s very own Queen of Hip Hop & R&B, Ashanthi de Alwis ...
The man known for his ingenious year end mash-ups is back to present a montage of the latest and greatest in the world of pop music under the single title “World Go Boom”. From Adele to Rihanna all screwed, chopped and glued into a single 5 minute number Dj Earworm provides us memorabilia of 2011 in the form of ...
MTV’s O Music Awards aimed at Digital successes by artistes and bands is here for the second time. Apparently all the voting and nominating is done by the fans online. The show will be aired on the 31st of October. More info on how to vote Fan Army FTW: ...
The All-American Rejects released their debuted video/single on the 31st of January 2012, and is slated to appear on their fourth album, Kids In The Street. “Beekeeper’s Daughter” shows us the lead vocalist who seems to involve himself in anything and everything happening around him and hopes to have a girl always waiting for him [...]
Need to add a new page to your site but don’t know where to start? Making a brand new site on WordPress.com and want to design a homepage quickly? There’s a new addition to the WordPress experience that’ll help with exactly that. Let’s take a look at Page Layouts! They’re pre-designed pages you can drop content into, without needing to ...
I never thought that I would be saying this but here goes I love this David Guetta track and this track is above all off his commercial hits released in the recent past. Back in August this track served as a promotional single for his latest album Nothing But The Beat but was later turned into his fourth official ...
R&B/ Soul singer-songwriter Robin Thicke is back with a brand new single for his fifth studio album titled Love After War. This track is unusually amazing. Whilst Wayne takes on a short opening verse in a surprisingly sincere and soft fashion, an insecure Thicke constantly keeps asking for reassurance from his lover. The old-school melody with a slight touch ...
After weeks of teasing audiences with bits and pieces of this video, Kelly has finally decided to release it. The track features G.O.O.D. Music rapper Big Sean who recently made a noteworthy debut with his own album. This is the third video off the former Destiny’s Child’s third album, Here Am I (July). A warning for the male population; ...
Another video from Steve Aoki’s debut studio album, Wonderland and it features Pop/R&B singer Wynter Gordon as the duo flirt and fight on this House effort. Aoki & Gordon take on the personas of Mr. & Mrs. Smith as the duo hurl plates of food, tumble down stairs and gets thrown over balconies only to meet each other on ...
