At WordPress.com we strive to continuously deliver new functionality whilst ensuring that we provide a consistent and reliable user experience.One key element to all of this is developing self-testing code; that is,…
We get asked periodically about how extensively we are using Elasticsearch. And it has come up twice in the past week, so time to write a blog post.We are constantly…
Today, most open source network flow tools lack a flexible and easy to use interface. Using Logstash’s built-in netflow codec, Kibana’s great looking and powerful web interface, and the flexibility of…
December EditionIt’s been almost a month since we released Calypso and the response has been great from the community. For those following the project more closely, we’ll be publishing summaries…
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…
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…
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…