We’re excited to unveil our new events calendar, letting users around the world find new ways to connect with the WordPress community.

One WordPress.com staffer challenged the others to a month-long blogging challenge… and you’ll never guess what happened next! (Spoiler: we blogged a lot.)

Meet and get to know former Justice League of America superhero and Happiness Engineer extraordinaire, David Cole.

We’re delighted to announce that Longreads is joining the Automattic family.

Another month is in the books! The WordPress.com community made March a month to remember with an avalanche of great achievements. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.

Do you enjoy on-the-go blogging from your iPhone and iPad? Meet Sendhil Panchadsaram, a mobile engineer who works on the popular WordPress iOS app.

Every so often, we sit down with an Automattician to help you get to know the people who work behind the scenes to build new features, keep Automattic’s wheels turning, and make WordPress.com the best it can be. In this installment, we’re delighted to introduce you to Happiness Engineer, photographer*, and beard enthusiast Steve Blythe — a.k.a. clickysteve. […]

WordPress.com is the biggest blogging platform around, and one of the most visited websites in the world. Yet the team that keeps it running is an intimate group of 224 Automatticians (thinking of joining our ranks? We’re always hiring). Among them are the Code Wranglers at work on our great features, the designers who make sure every pixel in your […]

With October in the books, it’s time to take a look at the incredible accomplishments of the WordPress.com community over the past month. Coming in the wake of an impressive September, you raised the bar once again. You’re a (blogging) force to be reckoned with. You published 36,311,289 posts, with a collective word count of 9,036,553,158 […]

After a red-hot August of publishing news and impressive numbers, we wondered what was next for the WordPress.com community. Here’s a snapshot of September: You blew up the internet. Again. Month after month, we’re blown away by what you publish. Talk show host Matt Walsh‘s post, “Dear parents, you need to control your kids,” has […]