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Infrastructure providers are increasingly considering censorship. By Didi Rankovic December 14, 2022 If you’re tired of censorship, cancel culture, and the erosion of privacy and civil liberties subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The content of Hunter Biden’s laptop was certainly scandalous enough, but the handling, i.e., censoring of the story about that by tech platforms influenced by […]
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WordPress discussed deplatforming The New York Post after Hunter Biden laptop story
December 17th, 2022 
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No Comments »Google and WordPress attacks
December 9th, 2021 Awake Goy 8 dec 2021, We are under attack. Like many other platforms, websites, social networks we are the targets of big techs to answer the Great Narrative and Great Reset of Klauss Schwab of the World Economic Forum. Today big tech like Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, are trying to align us to one way […]
The First-Ever WordPress.com Growth Summit Is Coming, and You Won’t Want to Miss It
July 27th, 2020 Awake Goy Join us for The Official WordPress.com Growth Summit on August 11-13! At our first-ever virtual conference you will learn how to build and grow your site, from start to scale. Are you a blogger looking for ways to drive traffic and get more visitors? Are you a small business that would like to start selling more […]
The WordPress.com Referral Program: Encourage Others to Start a Website
July 19th, 2020 Awake Goy All of us know interesting people with unique talents. Some have business ideas. Others write beautiful poetry. Some are inspired to make the world a better place. If they’re not online, they should be. If you’ve ever encouraged a friend or family member to create a blog, launch a podcast, or sell what they make […]
Posted in World News Tags: encourage, others, program, referral, start, website, wordpress No Comments »Unroll Your Twitter Threads Into WordPress
July 19th, 2020 Awake Goy Have you ever written a Twitter thread, and then wished you could turn it into a blog post? You can now do it in seconds. Writing Twitter threads, also known as tweetstorms, can be a great way to clarify your thoughts: keeping each paragraph under 280 characters forces you to focus on your message. Threads […]
Expert Advice: Learn How to Podcast on WordPress.com
July 19th, 2020 Awake Goy Podcasting isn’t just for professional broadcasters or celebrities. If you have a passion for a topic — no matter how niche — and want to explore your options beyond blogging and tweeting, consider launching a podcast! All you need to get started is a decent microphone and headset, an internet connection — and our next […]
Editing and Enhancing Images in the WordPress Apps
July 19th, 2020 Awake Goy The WordPress app on your Android or iOS device is your companion wherever you go. Manage your site, write and publish, and even add images to your posts — from anywhere you are. Oftentimes, the most engaging posts include visuals, like the photos you take on the go: pictures from last week’s walk, snapshots of your […]
Transfer Your Existing Domain to WordPress.com
May 14th, 2018 Awake Goy Giving your WordPress.com website its own custom domain has long been a powerful way to make your site stand out — a personalized web address helps you tell the world who you are and what you offer. If you registered your domain on WordPress.com, you already had the power to build a website and manage […]
Background Post and Media Uploading with WordPress for iOS 9.8
April 24th, 2018 Awake Goy Version 9.8 of WordPress for iOS rolls out this week, and includes some great enhancements to publishing: background media and post uploading. Adding images to a post or page? Now, you can publish — and accomplish other tasks — while your media uploads. No more waiting inside the editor while images gradually upload! Tap the […]
The WordPress Mobile Apps Now Support Right-to-Left Languages
March 30th, 2018 Awake Goy As part of the broader open source community, we believe in building products that people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and abilities can use and enjoy. We strive to create software that works smoothly for English and non-English speakers alike, and today we’re happy to roll out native support for right-to-left languages in both the iOS […]
Manage Plugins in the WordPress Mobile Apps
February 15th, 2018 Awake Goy We’re happy to announce the addition of a frequently requested feature in the WordPress mobile apps: plugin management! With the 9.1 update for the iOS and Android apps, WordPress.com Business plan sites with plugins and self-hosted WordPress sites with Jetpack can now manage their plugins right in the app. Instead of going to your dashboard […]
The WordPress.com Year in Review (and Resolutions for 2018)
January 4th, 2018 Awake Goy Some years go by slowly — not because they’re busier, but maybe there’s just more out there in the world to stop and notice. We hope the WordPress.com and Jetpack community offered you some of those moments this year. Maybe it was a helpful chat with someone on our Happiness team, or maybe you discovered […]
Update Your Avatar on WordPress.com
October 13th, 2017 Awake Goy We’ve given one of our favorite features a boost! You can now manage your profile photo, or avatar, right on WordPress.com. This avatar, powered by a service called Gravatar, is the image that represents you online — a thumbnail that appears next to your name when you interact on blogs and websites. With this recently […]
A New Media Picker for the iOS WordPress App
October 10th, 2017 Awake Goy Sometimes it’s the extra touches that make all the difference; on your website, that’s the photos and video that give your content life. You asked for streamlined access to your media library and the camera and photos on your device, to make uploading and inserting photos and videos easier. We hear you loud and clear! […]
Add A Simple Payment Button To Your WordPress.com Premium Or Business Site
August 18th, 2017 Awake Goy May 2016: Hajj Flemings, CEO of Rebrand Cities with renowned photographer, Shawn Lee, in a redesigned school bus en route to working with small business owners in Detroit. Earlier this year, while working in Detroit with small business owners and the Rebrand Cities team, it became clear that entrepreneurs and publishers are looking for a […]
An Updated Login Coming to the WordPress Mobile Apps
August 16th, 2017 Awake Goy Over the past few months the Mobile team has been thinking a lot about the login experience in the WordPress apps and how we could make it better — we’re never satisfied, you know, so we’re always trying to improve things. After much thought, and even more work, we’re very happy to unveil a new login […]
WordPress.com Business Now Supports Plugins and Third-Party Themes
August 7th, 2017 Awake Goy For many years, WordPress.com has been a simple way for people to create their own beautiful WordPress website in minutes. But that simplicity came with a tradeoff — WordPress.com did not offer built-in support for the thousands of third-party plugins and themes that helped make WordPress the world’s largest and most open web publishing platform. […]
Posted in World News Tags: Business, party, plugins, supports, themes, third, wordpress No Comments »A Brand New Editor for the WordPress Mobile Apps
July 24th, 2017 Awake Goy Now that so many of us carry around tiny pocket-size computers, more and more of our internet time happens on phones and tablets — not just browsing, but creating. You’ve been asking for a better publishing experience in the WordPress app to make mobile publishing smoother. Today we’re introducing a new editor for iOS and […]
You Can Now Schedule Your Social Media Posts from WordPress.com
July 13th, 2017 Awake Goy Keeping up with social media can feel like a full-time job these days — and for many it is. Posting your content on Twitter and Facebook during specific hours, and keeping things evenly spaced out, means that you need to tend to your profiles pretty often. We wanted to make it easier for WordPress.com users […]
WordPress.com Teams Up with Rebrand Cities to Bring Local Businesses Online
July 13th, 2017 Awake Goy Cities are collections of neighborhoods — and neighborhoods are powered by small business. From coffee shop owners to fitness instructors, therapists to thrift stores, it’s the people we see in the storefronts next door who build and reinforce the unique character of our cities. At WordPress.com, we want to support local businesses as they grow […]
Posted in World News Tags: bring, businesses, cities, local, rebrand, teams, wordpress No Comments »WordPress.com Gets a Perfect Score from the EFF for Digital Privacy Rights
July 11th, 2017 Awake Goy At Automattic, we’re proud of our commitment to fighting for the digital rights of our users and of our work to keep the internet free and open. Today we’re honored to receive another perfect score from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in its annual Who Has Your Back? report. The EFF is a well-known nonprofit organization committed […]
The Best of WordPress.com: Summer Edition
July 11th, 2017 Awake Goy Hi everyone! Here’s a snapshot of some of the excellent WordPress.com community advice, insights, and updates that we enjoyed over the past month. Introducing Your New Social Icons Widget The Social Icons Widget allows you to connect your site to your favorite social media networks. You can activate it by going to My Site → Customize […]
An All-New Media Library for the WordPress iOS App
June 21st, 2017 Awake Goy We recently launched an all-new media picker for WordPress for Android. Now, iOS users, you’re next! The new 7.8 release of WordPress for iOS includes a top-level Media Library section for each site you manage — making it even easier to share your images, video, and other media with the world. With just one tap […]
The Best of WordPress.com in May
May 31st, 2017 Awake Goy Hi everyone! Check out some of the new updates, designs, and insights that helped make May a great month for the WordPress.com community. How a Detroit Hackathon Turned into WordPress.com’s First-Ever TV Spots A team of developers launched new sites for small businesses in Detroit during a 48-hour Hackathon in February, an event which inspired […]
The Best of WordPress.com in April
April 29th, 2017 Awake Goy You’re off to a strong creative start in 2017! Here are a few recent updates and stories from the WordPress.com community in April that we wanted to share with you. This Year’s WordPress Default Theme, Twenty Seventeen, Is Now Available “Great looking theme!” – Jason Thornberry Independent Publisher 2 Is Here The Independent Publisher theme has […]
