Marcus Kazmierczak We are proud to announce the full open sourcing of the WordPress.com desktop app. You can access the source and documentation on GitHub at the automattic/wp-desktop repository. The core application Calypso was released as open source a few weeks ago, and now the work that went into building the desktop applications using Electron is available ... Read More.
Andy P A little over a year and a half ago, we had a dramatic rethink of the technologies and development workflows for building with WordPress. Our existing codebase and workflows had served us well, but ten years of legacy was beginning to seriously hinder us from building the modern, fast, and mobile-friendly experiences that our users ... Read More.
Gary Several years ago, WordPress.com introduced oEmbed provider support to allow posts on WordPress.com-hosted blogs to be embedded anywhere that supported oEmbed. WordPress 4.4, due out in December, will bring oEmbed provider support to the wider WordPress world. One week from today, on October 2, the WordPress.com team will be switching our oEmbed format to match the global ... Read More.
Greg Ichneumon Brown Every day, millions of people connect with ideas, photos, and other content on WordPress.com. Here at Automattic, we take pride in enabling this interaction, and continually strive to make the WordPress.com platform better for users. Our data science team examines these user interactions, and aims to develop our insights into user facing features and tools. ... Read More.
David Newman We’re happy to announce that the Photon image service now offers seamless support for the WebP image format. This new feature provides size reductions of up to 34% for served images compared to a JPEG of an equivalent visual quality level. One thing to keep in mind, though: WebP isn’t currently supported by all browsers (see the WebP FAQ for more details). JPEG File Size – ... Read More.
Alex Kirk Alex Kirk lives in Austria and is a developer on the i18n (internationalization) team at Automattic. We’re looking for talented people wherever they live —why not join our team? Whenever we write plugins or themes, there is one thing that needs a little extra attention and is quite frankly hard to get right: Translatable text. Be ... Read More.
Josh Betz If you were watching closely, you may have noticed that we recently introduced the option for lossy JPEG compression with Photon. The new parameters are quality and strip. Quality is pretty straight forward — the image quality out of 100. Strip refers to meta data that can be stripped from an image — namely exif ... Read More.
Joey Kudish Because privacy and security are important to users across the internet, many services have begun to encrypt the connection between a user’s browser and their servers. The use of SSL (or TLS) largely eliminates the likelihood that a “man-in-the-middle” is able to monitor a user’s activities on the web. To this end, WordPress.com is joining ... Read More.
Jonathan Sadowski Today, we’ve launched version 1.1 of the WordPress.com REST API. In recent weeks, we’ve been hard at work launching new features on WordPress.com, and many of these changes are powered by our REST API. When we started working on the upgrades to stats and post management, we quickly realized that the existing endpoints didn’t have all the ... Read More.
Demitrious Kelly Developing APIs is hard. You pour your blood, sweat, and tears into this interface that bares the soul of your company and of your product to the world. The machinery under the hood, though, is often a lot less polished than the fancy paint job would lead the rest of the world to believe. You have to ... Read More.
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