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  3407 readersFresh from WordCamp Phoenix 2012, Lance Willett who works for Automattic and is part of the theme wrangler team gave a great presentation for beginners on how to navigate the vast landscape that is WordPress themes. He covers the gamut such as where to look for themes, commercial themes, things to consider before using the

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  WordPress.com Servers Hit in Security Breach

  15322 readers Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has announced that hackers have breached its security and broken in to several of its servers, putting any information on them at risk. Automattic and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg says that Wednesday’s incident was a low-level root access breach. The company is reviewing its data logs to figure out what

• Automattic is now a Domain Registrar

  3876 readersAutomattic recently appeared on ICANN’s list of accredited registrars as ID #1531, meaning that the company is now a full-fledged accredited domain registrar. WordPress.com is one of Automattic’s most popular services, and domain mapping is one of their most popular upgrades, so this is potentially yet another game-changing move for the company. According to Automattic

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  WordPress.com Blogs Garnered 23 Billion Pageviews in 2010

  2337 readers Automattic, the company behind popular blogging platform WordPress.com, reported 6 million new blogs and 23 billion pageviews for 2010. The latter figure represents a 53% increase from 2009. These latest stats were reported by The Next Web, which added, “Media uploads also doubled to 94.5 terabytes of new photos and videos, while new posts were up

• BuddyPress for One (and All!)

  6684 readersBack in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather

• WordPress Trademark Donated to WordPress Foundation

  3691 readersAutomattic has officially donated the WordPress trademark to the non-profit WordPress Foundation.  To quote the official announcement by Jane Wells, “the Foundation will be responsible for safeguarding the trademarked name and logo from misuse toward the end of protecting WordPress and preventing confusion among people trying to figure out if a resource is ‘official’ or not.”

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  Matt Mullenweg on KTEH “This is Us!”

  3955 readersMatt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress and founder of Automattic, was recently interviewed on KTEH’s program “This is Us!”. In this 5 minute interview they covers lots of topics including WordCamps and Open Source / GPL. [ Visit KTEH & YouTube ]

• Why You Should Join the Theme Review Team

  3482 readersYou may know that the WordPress Theme Review Team is responsible for keeping the official theme directory free of malware, sponsored themes, and other such junk, but did you know that the team is staffed entirely by volunteers? Former Theme Review Team...

• Task Management for WordPress and P2

  8935 readersAre you looking for a way to easily manage tasks either for yourself, your team, or perhaps even your entire company? Well, now you can with WordPress! All you need is the P2 Theme and the handy Resolved Posts plugin. We use project-specific P2s for roughly 90% of our communication at Automattic, and the Resolved Posts plugin

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  PollDaddy And Why They Sold To Automattic

  3784 readersThe Guardian has a great article online which features numerous quotes from PollDaddy co-founder and project lead David Lenehan on various business aspects of PollDaddy. In the article which is more like an interview, we learn that the company has been cash flow positive since the beginning with revenues doubling since they’ve started. When it