Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other Web publishing tools, has raised $160 million from investors, including Insight Venture Partners, CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed. The round values the nine-year-old company at $1.16 billion, after the investment, which is its first since it raised $12 million in 2008. According to a blog post by Mullenweg, the...Read More
Time was when WordPress was a four-letter word in business. No longer. Not only has the platform become scaled scaled so that it powers 22% of all websites, it also has a maturing ecosystem of developers and tools convenient to business. As with any technology you put to use in a business, even if it’s...Read More
Congratulations! Your new WordPress site is live — but this is not the end, trust me when I say this is just the beginning. Now that your site is live you need to know where you go from here? What is left to do for your site? How do to track success? How can you...Read More
This blog post is based on a presentation given at last week’s BrightonSEO entitled ‘Cool shit you can do with WordPress’ but to call it that I’ll have to check if we’re allowed to say it first. Depending on what the headline above says right now will let you know the outcome of that little...Read More
The website-making sector has seen a lot of activity lately, including Squarespace’s new $40 million round, Weebly’s $35 million in new funding, and Brandcast’s fresh $1.5 million on the same day. And we’ve even seen rumors of WordPress parent company Automattic raising new funding of about $100 million. And speaking of WordPress, it just acquired, for an...Read More
If you’re a WordPress-using photo-blogger looking to save yourself some spadework, you might like this little tool developed by Automattic. Rather than manually scheduling posts for individual photos one at a time, Postbot lets you drag-and-drop your snaps to upload and schedule them automatically – you can edit the details for each image as they’re uploading...Read More
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WordPress.org today announced the debut of WordPress 3.9, which adds a slew of “refinements†to the blog management tool. You can download the new release now from WordPress.org/Download (it’s 6.0MB). Dubbed “Smith†in honor of African-American jazz musician Jimmy Smith, WordPress 3.9 is supposed to give users a better understanding of how their content will...Read More
Who says bloggers don’t make any money? Automattic, which runs the popular blogging service WordPress.com, is in the market for a new round of funding that would value the company at more than $1 billion, according to Fortune. See also: 13-Year-Old Blogger: I Promise Girls Will Change the World Automattic is reportedly seeking $100 to...Read More
Who says bloggers don’t make any money? Automattic, which runs the popular blogging service WordPress, is in the market for a new round of funding that would value the company at more than $1 billion, according to Fortune. See also: 13-Year-Old Blogger: I Promise Girls Will Change the World Automattic is reportedly seeking $100 to...Read More
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