A WooCommerce website has different and unique needs compared to other types of websites. For starters, the amount of time the store is online is one of the most important aspects to consider. It almost needs to be an obsession for a savvy store owner. WooCommerce staging is one tactic to help you keep your ecommerce store live, while still enhancing and updating it. In a general sense, a staging
Servers power the internet by storing data files for websites, apps, and various digital assets. That means any self-hosted WordPress website requires a server to store and use PHP files, media elements, databases, and content. But did you know there are WordPress PHP and server requirements you have to consider prior to installing a WordPress site? WordPress PHP and server requirements are the absolute minimal environmental settings to produce a
“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 and energy. At Automattic, we are often asked how we manage remote work and how
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 with our fellow colleagues. Throughout February, our Black/African Descent employee resource group, Cocoamattic, shined a
Recently we shared that you can now purchase six popular Automattic plugins right from your WordPress.com dashboard. We’re intentionally testing this out with our own products before opening it up to the broader community. This is the first step in our plan to make taking your site to the next level faster, easier, and more flexible than ever before. But it’s really just the beginning. What’s coming soon Today, we’d
Customize Your Entire Site With New Block Themes Experiment with a new look for your site with themes created to take advantage of Full Site Editing. Kjell Reigstad In case you missed it, we’ve been rolling out a new set of powerful site design tools called Full Site Editing (or “FSE”) and it’s now available for all WordPress.com users! Don’t worry if you’re just hearing about Full Site Editing for the
Welcome back to our “WordPress.com Favorites” series! In these interviews, we’ll be highlighting bloggers about their passion project. Caution: contents guaranteed to be inspiring. This interview has been lightly edited. Shortly after Empish Thomas earned her journalism degree in the mid-’90s, she began experiencing severe headaches and sensitivity to light. After a visit to the eye doctor, she was diagnosed with uveitis, a generalized eye inflammation that can quickly escalate to
Our mission has always been to democratize publishing, one website at a time. Now we’re making all the benefits of WordPress available to more people, with one simple pricing plan. Hello, Pro One thing we heard over the years was how hard it can be to choose the right upgrade plan when you’re ready to scale up from Free. WordPress Pro radically simplifies that decision by rolling the very best
Say Hello to WordPrompts! We’re excited to introduce a set of prompts for creators of all types! Meet WordPrompt, a single-word monthly exercise that aims to inspire you to create new posts, regardless of what or how you publish. Mindy Postoff Earlier this year, we kicked off 2022 with Bloganuary, a daily blogging challenge during the month of January. The feedback we received about the challenge was overwhelmingly positive, and it’s
VideoPress, Take 3 Tino Barreiro We promised you “more is coming” in our latest update—and now more is here. More features that make the finest video service for WordPress even more powerful. You can upload more content with less effort, reach more audiences, and keep sharing more of what inspires you. In this video, we’ll show you what’s new in VideoPress. Let’s dive deeper into five of the new features
