Nerd alert: I’m posting this in case anyone finds themselves with the same issue and needs a fix; if you don’t care about databases feel free to skip this one 🤓 For a recent post I wanted to use an emoji. I also wanted to use emojis in a post ages ago and wasn’t able to… […]
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Automattic Grand Meetup 2016
The GM Each year (nearly) everyone at Automattic gets together for the Grand Meetup (GM). The GM is essentially a company retreat. We work, we train, we develop, we discuss, we play, we eat, we drink… it’s an amazing time of getting to know each other better and working and planning towards better products and better […]
My first European adventure
It’s been just over a year since I started working for Automattic; and what an amazing year! I have got to do what I really like doing, which is help people make their websites. I have met a bunch of new people, online and in person. I have contributed to learning and development projects for […]
WordPress.com and Jetpack
Most tutorials and information that you come across about WordPress will be for the open source software that you can install on any server and do whatever you want with; often referred to as WordPress.org or self-hosted (because you have to manage the installation of WordPress on your host). WordPress.com is a bit different. WordPress.com is a […]
The WordPress Customizer
The Customizer is the way forward… It essentially removes the fear and disconnect between the WP Admin and the front end of someone’s site. So, it’s a bridge that gives people the confidence to make changes, while seeing those changes in real time. — Matt Mullenweg Matt said that during his Q&A keynote at WordCamp Europe […]
Kristen is an Automattician!
This month I officially joined the ranks of Automattic! For those in the know, I am a Happiness Engineer on the Store team. For everyone else, I do support for WordPress.com, mainly for Business plan customers. I love my new job. Helping people with their websites is what made my blog popular, it’s how my […]
