by Jeff Chandler | Aug 17, 2017 | facebook, gutenberg, twitter, woocommerce, Wordpress Resources, WordPress Weekly, wordpress.com
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I open the show by discussing our observations of social media lately. Our feeds are filled with anger and for me personally, Twitter is becoming less useful. We discussed the news of the week, including a lengthy conversation...
by Jeff Chandler | Aug 11, 2017 | ecosystem, managed hosting, Opinion, Themes, Wordpress Resources, wordpress.com
Earlier this year, WordPress.com launched an experiment giving Business plan subscribers the ability to install third-party plugins and themes. Automattic concluded the experiment earlier this week and officially made the features part of the subscription plan....
by Sarah Gooding | Mar 21, 2017 | automattic, jetpack, News, theme review team, Themes, Wordpress Resources, wordpress.com
Today Jetpack announced that its users now have access to a collection of 165 free themes from WordPress.com. Jetpack users can browse, preview, and activate themes by visiting the WordPress.com Theme Showcase. WordPress.com has also added the ability for Jetpack...
by Sarah Gooding | Sep 2, 2016 | customizer, jetpack, News, Themes, Wordpress Resources, wordpress.com
This week WordPress.com introduced a new Customizer panel to its users called Content Options. The new panel offers a number of minor tweaks that would ordinarily be handled by a few simple free plugins on a self-hosted site. It brings a whole new range of...
by Rachel McCollin | Feb 4, 2016 | Calypso, Miscellaneous, Wordpress Resources, WordPress Tutorials, wordpress.com
If you’ve been reading about Calypso, the new system for managing your WordPress site from Automattic, you may be wondering how it works and what’s different from the familiar WordPress admin screens. Calypso isn’t what you’re used to:...
