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Behind the Scenes: The Tech Stack of the WordPress.com Growth Summit If you enjoy building sites with WordPress, tinkering around with design and functionality, check out a behind-the-scenes look at how we built our Growth Summit site! Recently, we hosted our second annual WordPress.com Growth Summit and welcomed over 1,300 attendees at the event. The summit…

Celebrating UK Black History Month: Learning Resources, a Read & Watch List, and Content Creation Tools October is Black History Month in the UK. We asked colleagues across WordPress.com for their recommendations for deeper learning and participation this month — and the rest of the year. This year’s UK Black History Month theme, Proud To Be,…

Will We See You Tomorrow at WordCamp US 2021? Let’s meet at WCUS 2021! We’ll be there and we hope to see you there as well! Let’s meet at WCUS 2021! WordPress.com will be there and we hope to see you there as well! Although we’d love to be at an in-real-life WordCamp right now, we’re…

A Successful Blogger on Making the Switch For Kyla Marie Charles, switching to WordPress.com opened up possibilities for her website and brand that she never thought was possible. Donna Cavalier After Kyla Marie Charles grew a successful blog on Blogger for 10 years and made her mark as an influencer, she realized her website was no…

Expanded Button Formatting, New Spacing Controls, and Drag-and-Drop for List View Now in Block Editor This month, our team released features in the block editor that give your site a little breathing room: spacing controls for buttons and paragraphs. And the List View tool keeps getting better with drag-and-drop. Powerful Expanded Button Formatting Buttons never looked…

Meet the Customers We’re Featuring at the WordPress.com Growth Summit We are proud to feature Jessica Petrie of Yoga Next Door, HBCU Gameday, and other inspiring customers at the second Official WordPress.com Growth Summit, on Tuesday, August 17. Last summer, as the world adjusted to pandemic life, Jessica Petrie knew that she had to make changes…

Faster, More Flexible Editing of Your Sidebars, Headers, and Footers: Blocks for Widgets Great news: the block editor you’re familiar with in pages and posts is now part of the widgets editor. The block editor makes site creation fast and flexible. Now, you can use that same huge library of blocks available when editing your pages…

5 Ways to Get Started On Your Side Hustle We’re committed to helping you create a professional online presence with WordPress.com, and we’re launching a three-month free trial with Professional Email to get you started. Professional Email is an industry-leading email service from our partner Titan that’s powerful and easy to set up. Professional Email helps…

Heading Font Weights and List View Toggles Arrive in Block Editor and WordPress 5.8 With the WordPress 5.8 release, we’re starting to introduce features that overall improve your visual editing experience. Let’s dive into some recent block updates meant to improve your efficiency and spice up the look of your blog or website. Stylish Heading Font…

The Second Annual Official WordPress.com Growth Summit Is Coming, and You Won’t Want to Miss It Join us online August 17 (Americas) and August 18 (Asia Pacific). Register today! Selena Jackson You’ve got an idea; let’s get it online. Join us online for the second Official WordPress.com Growth Summit being held on August 17 in the…