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Now, more than ever, businesses are looking to WordPress agencies to help them move online. To keep developers and marketers stay up to date with all things WordPress, WP Engine has moved their annual Summit online. The free virtual conference features keynotes and breakouts presented by WordPress experts from across the world. Tune in for Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast, Karim Marucchi, CEO of Crowd Favorite, John Eckman, CEO of 10Up, and more. Then finish the day with Keynote speaker, Robert Herjavec from Shark Tank. Speakers will discuss ways to accelerate your business, how to create a better experience […]

As you probably know, WordPress regularly updates its platform to incorporate new features and functionality. While using the latest version is recommended, you may feel reluctant to change. Whether you embraced Gutenberg from the get-go or still prefer the Classic Editor, it’s smart to familiarize yourself with the next version of WordPress’ Block Editor. Not only can it help streamline your workflow, but it can also take your web design and development projects to the next level. In this post, we’ll discuss some of the features introduced in WordPress 5.4 and what to expect from WordPress’ new Block Editor. Let’s […]

On Saturday night, Matt Mullenweg took the stage in St. Louis to deliver the 2019 State of the Word. The talk provides a look at this year in the WordPress community and what is on the horizon for the platform. Mullenweg opened this year’s talk by premiering a documentary created about the WordPress community by WordFence, Open. It’s a look at the beauty and power of the people that run the CMS. It set the tone for the rest of the State of the Word. This year’s WordCamp included 47 organizers, 122 volunteers, and 90 speakers. A huge amount of […]

Automattic just closed a Series D funding round of $3 million from one investor, Salesforce Ventures. According to Automattic founder, Matt Mullenweg, this investment will allow the company to stay the course and honor the current roadmap. For Automattic, the funding will allow us to accelerate our roadmap (perhaps by double) and scale up our existing products—including WordPress.com, WordPress VIP, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and (in a few days when it closes) Tumblr. It will also allow us to increase investing our time and energy into the future of the open source WordPress and Gutenberg. More than anything, the funding is a huge endorsement of open source and the WordPress […]

In its biggest acquisition to date, Automattic Inc. has purchased Tumblr along with its 200 employees. Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg told the Wall Street Journal that executives will try to find ways to merge Tumblr’s functionality with WordPress.com’s. According to Post Status, Mullenweg’s initial goals for the website are to: 1. Move infrastructure off Verizon.2. Support same APIs on both WP.com and Tumblr.3. Switch backend to be WP.4. Open source Tumblr.com client similar to Calypso. He went on to say that though there will be changes to the backend, the front-end user experience will stay the same as it is today. Because Tumblr has […]