Virtual Reality is coming to WordPress.com! As of today, you can create and publish your own VR content on any WordPress.com site, starting with 360° photos and 360° videos (beta), and you can view regular photos and panoramas in VR. Our goal is to make publishing VR content as simple as publishing text or photos to the web — just add ...
Today’s the day! Now you can search for the .blog domain of your choice and associate it with your WordPress.com site. As we announced in May, the launch of .blog, a new top-level domain extension, means there are millions of easy-to-remember addresses now available for your website. Pricing for .blog domains will start at around USD$30 per year, with some ...
How does a distributed company — a group of people with shared business goals but spread out around the world, representing different cultures, family settings, and local health considerations — stick together during a major health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic? We don’t intend to make it sound easy. And we are aware — from our families, our communities, the ...
Ready to explore the possibilities with the block editor? WPBlockTalk is a free and live virtual event that will bring together designers, developers, and other WordPress enthusiasts from across the WordPress community. Topics to expect: Building the block editor: what it takes to develop the block editor, what features are on the roadmap, and how you can contributeDeveloping blocks: inspiration ...
The Queeromattic Employee Resource Group, Automattic’s LGBTQ+ internal organization, is proud to announce a scholarship for LGBTQ+ WordPress Community members who need financial support to attend a WordCamp flagship event for the first time. For those unfamiliar with WordCamps, they are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual users to core developers ...
Internationalization is very important to us, and we’re striving to make sites across WordPress.com accessible to all, such as your international followers and multilingual readers. Today, we’re thrilled to introduce the Google Translate Widget, which allows you and your site visitors to instantly translate your content into 103 languages currently supported by Google Translate. Languages currently supported by Google Translate. ...
Web and marketing designer Matt Sweeny builds websites on WordPress.com for a range of clients, including a landscape and design service, a cheese company at holiday markets, a public relations firm for toy manufacturers and retailers, and an indie folk band. Here, Matt shares a bit about how — and why — he uses WordPress.com, offering quick tips on building a ...
The Functional Angle Anyone who’s worked with me in advertising will tell you that I am a real bitch/bastard/brandon to work with, for, alongside and sometimes in between. I will have you know that it was all true. Nice guys are the Ned Starks of the ad world – they die quick, unpleasant metaphorical deaths – that or they ...
If you’ve ever had a great idea for a name for your blog or website, now’s your chance to snap it up: today marks the start of the “Landrush” phase for the all-new .blog domain names. That means you can apply now to get early access to a .blog web address you love, before they become available for sale on ...
It’s been a year of highs and lows, but one thing is certain: all of us at WordPress.com’s parent company Automattic are proud of what this community has accomplished in the past year. Your work is supported by a company of more than 500 people in over 50 countries, dedicated to democratizing publishing. We hope we’ve helped to bring your ...
It’s been possible to export your posts, images, and other content to an export file, and then transfer this content into another WordPress site since the early days of WordPress. Select WordPress from the list of options to import your site. This basic WordPress import moved content, but didn’t include other important stuff like themes, plugins, users, or settings. Your ...
With the recent news about Medium’s change in business model we’ve been receiving a number of requests from users on how to import their content to a WordPress.com site. We’re excited today to share our new import tool for moving from Medium to WordPress.com. Medium Import Instructions First, visit the Medium settings page, scroll down to Export Content, and select Download .zip ...
Sometimes it’s the little things that count — especially when it comes to your stats. We’ve recently gathered some of your feedback and used it to work through a few renovations. Let’s take a quick tour! Today First: Many of you wanted to make today’s stats a priority, with easy access to yesterday’s stats as well. So now when you visit a site’s stats, ...
We’ve given one of our favorite features a boost! You can now manage your profile photo, or avatar, right on WordPress.com. This avatar, powered by a service called Gravatar, is the image that represents you online — a thumbnail that appears next to your name when you interact on blogs and websites. With this recently refined feature, you can upload, ...
We’ve added a new media section to your WordPress.com dashboard, allowing you to bulk upload, edit, and tweak your media files. Let’s look at the changes: Upload Media in Bulk Add new items in bulk by going to Media → Add New to activate the file picker. You can also drag and drop items right onto the page. Edit Media ...
At WordPress.com, we’re always pushing our platform to do even more so that you can create, design, and publish amazing things with ease. The last few weeks have found us as busy as the springtime bees improving the writing and publishing process even more, bringing our ad platform to mobile, and ensuring that previous edits to your work are readily ...
“Rinjer…” That’s what it sounded like when he said it. Fortunately, he’s holding out his pair of cooking chopsticks with a few slices of ginger hooked (artistically) in between them. I’d always leave the ginger exactly where it was placed, whenever I was served in a Japanese restaurant. When I was done eating everything else on my plate, the ...
Most people spend their Saturday afternoons lounging around at home with their families or out by the beach with friends, sipping cocktails and nursing their regrets over waking up next to the people they’d taken to bed on Friday night. August, 2013 Me, I was spending (this particular) Saturday afternoon standing in the deep end of an empty swimming ...
‘Go after what you want, and don’t let anything stand in your way…’ Famous last words. Still, people speak them with such passion; their eyes turning to swollen balls of gloss as they encourage you to embark on a journey they themselves are not too keen to attempt. It’s a nice bit of tomfoolery we allow ourselves in our youth, ...
Are you driven by a desire to share your knowledge and expertise with the world? Do you feel the pull of making an impact but aren’t sure how to leverage your skills? In today’s digital economy, there’s an abundance of opportunity, but sometimes the path is anything but clear. That’s why we’ve crafted a comprehensive guide to help you navigate ...
