wp-now: Launch a Local Environment in Seconds

As a developer, it’s frustrating to constantly deal with configurations, install various libraries, and commercial licenses. We enjoy writing code, building things, and shipping products that help people. Code is poetry. wp-now is a new, zero-config development environment we recently contributed to the WordPress Playground. Currently in its alpha stage, wp-now is already the fastest ... Read More.

Automattic Women: Marjorie R. Asturias

Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee, Marjorie R. Asturias, chats with us from her home office. Who are you, and what do you do?  I’m a proud Automattician based in the ... Read More.

Life @ Automattic: Q&A with security engineer Alexander Concha

What’s it like to work at a fully distributed company with a worldwide team and culture guided by a Creed? Welcome to “Life @ Automattic,” an occasional series of Q&As with the people behind the products. Today we talked with security engineer Alexander Concha. Who are you, and what do you do? Hello, my name ... Read More.

Automattic Women: Selena Jackson

Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee, Selena Jackson, talks to us from her home in New York. Who are you, and what do you do?  Hi, I’m Selena! I am originally ... Read More.

Automattic Women: Kirsten Johnston

Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is HRmattician Kirsten Johnston. Who are you, and what do you do? I’m Kirsten, I live in a little village in Scotland with my fiance, ... Read More.

#CFHack2023: WordPress in VS Code!!!

At the CloudFest Hackathon over the weekend, we embedded WordPress directly into VS Code. Forget spending hours setting up a local development environment at your next Contributor Day. Simply install the WordPress Playground VS Code extension, run “Launch WordPress Playground” from the command launcher, and you’ll have a fully mostly functional WordPress installation right inside ... Read More.

Eliminating Render-Blocking Resources to Speed Up WordPress

By: Keanan Koppenhaver Render-blocking resources often cause issues for developers who are trying to optimize the performance of their sites. Put simply, a render-blocking resource is one that’s loaded as part of the rendering of a web page, but while it’s loading, it stops the rest of the page from doing so. As more and ... Read More.

Drupal vs. WordPress: A Developer Weighs In

By: Philip Jonas As a developer, you know that the software development landscape has grown to astronomical proportions with no signs of slowing down. At times, it feels like remaining current is an impossible task. In this chaotic landscape, you need something that is simple to learn, easy to maintain, and robust enough to allow ... Read More.

PHP 8.2 is Now Available on WordPress.com

You can now use PHP 8.2 on any WordPress.com Business or Ecommerce site with hosting features activated. ... Read More.

Automattic Women: Damianne President

Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee, Damianne President, talks to us from her home in Prague.  Who are you, and what do you do?  I was a third culture kid, now ... Read More.