The Story Behind the New WordPress.com
A little over a year and a half ago, we had a dramatic rethink of the technologies and development workflows for building with WordPress. Our existing codebase and workflows had served us well, but ten...
View ArticleWordPress.com Desktop App Goes Open Source, Linux App Arrives
We are proud to announce the full open sourcing of the WordPress.com desktop app. You can access the source and documentation on GitHub at the automattic/wp-desktop repository. The core application...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Calypso?
December Edition It’s been almost a month since we released Calypso and the response has been great from the community. For those following the project more closely, we’ll be publishing summaries on...
View ArticleOpen Source Flow Collecting with Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana
Today, most open source network flow tools lack a flexible and easy to use interface. Using Logstash’s built-in netflow codec, Kibana’s great looking and powerful web interface, and the flexibility of...
View ArticleState of WordPress.com Elasticsearch Systems 2016
We get asked periodically about how extensively we are using Elasticsearch. And it has come up twice in the past week, so time to write a blog post. We are constantly expanding what we are using...
View ArticleIntroducing our WordPress.com Automated e2e Tests
At WordPress.com we strive to continuously deliver new functionality whilst ensuring that we provide a consistent and reliable user experience. One key element to all of this is developing self-testing...
View ArticleImproved REST API Support for Custom Taxonomies
The WordPress.com REST API has always enabled developers to manage categories and tags for the posts on a site. Until now, however, if a site had enabled any custom post types with custom taxonomies,...
View ArticleWordPress REST API on WordPress.com
As you might know if you follow WordPress developer news, the WordPress REST API content endpoints are slated to be merged into WordPress core in the upcoming 4.7 release. These endpoints cover basic...
View ArticleGet.blog Goes Open Source
We’re happy to announce that we’ve open-sourced two projects last week: Delphin and its sibling, Delphin Bootstrap. Delphin powers get.blog, a site we built for a smooth registration of .blog domains....
View ArticleNew WordPress unified API console
Since the WordPress 4.7 “Vaughan” release, each WordPress installation includes REST API endpoints to access and manipulate its content. These endpoints will be the foundation for the next generation...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....