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Celebrating Black History Month This February, we shared stories of notable Black/African Descent people around the world. Shanta For much of Black history in the US, a lot of stories have gone untold. As we wrap up Black History Month, our team at Automattic — the company behind WordPress.com — wanted to share how we celebrated…

Help us define the next stage of Professional Email One of the things we’re most passionate about as a company is listening closely to our customers and working on features that they really want to see. Semiha Kocer If you’ve been a WordPress.com user in any capacity, you’re probably aware that we believe in democratizing publishing…

“Are all your meetings so effective that you look forward to them?” Our CEO, Matt Mullenweg, recently asked us to reflect on this question. Live meetings have their place, and there are conversations that are better done in real-time, whether in person or through video chat. But they can be costly in terms of time…

Welcome to our brand new series, “WordPress.com Favorites”! In these interviews, we’ll be highlighting bloggers about their passion project. Caution: contents guaranteed to be inspiring.     First up, The Travel Architect. A teacher from the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, The Travel Architect has been documenting her world-wide travels (usually alongside “the husband”) since 2018. It’s…

Last week we opened up limited access to a revolutionary array of new site editing tools that will transform how you create, edit, and update the look and feel of your WordPress.com website by leveraging easy-to-use drag and drop functionality.  Today we’re excited to announce that the wait is over. Over the next few weeks,……

Even though you can build any type of website on WordPress.com, from an eCommerce store to a photography portfolio, blogs still make up the majority of our 60 million plus sites. To improve interaction and connection with these bloggers, we tried something new: Bloganuary, a writing challenge throughout the month of January, where we provided……

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Buy Paid Plugins Directly on WordPress.com Seth McLellan For users on our Business and eCommerce Plans, plugins are a critical part of the WordPress.com experience. We’re always looking for ways to simplify the process of discovering and installing powerful WordPress plugins. As a result, we’re now making it possible to purchase certain plugins directly on the…

Connect With Your Audience: Integrate Social Media With Your WordPress.com Website Integrating your social media presence with your website is essential to finding and growing your audience. WordPress.com offers many options and tools that can help you optimize your website and social platforms. Integrating your social media presence with your WordPress.com website has never been easier.…

Get Early Access to Full Site Editing! Donna Cavalier A big change is coming to WordPress to make it easier than ever to create websites called Full-Site Editing. You can be one of the first to try it exclusively on WordPress.com, before it gets merged into core open source WordPress with the upcoming release of WordPress…