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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…

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…

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…

We’re happy to announce that the Site Accelerator (previously Photon)  image service now offers seamless support for the WebP image format. This new feature provides size reductions of up to…

If you were watching closely, you may have noticed that we recently introduced the option for lossy JPEG compression with Site Accelerator (previously Photon). The new parameters are quality and…

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…

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…

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…

WordPress.com is a freemium service, meaning that our awesome blogging platform is provided for free to everyone, and we make money by selling upgrades. We process thousands of user purchases…