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70 from 4 Nov 2021 to 21 Oct 2026
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2026 24

  1. Your Sites Are Protected Against the PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities
  2. Deflection is Not a Support Strategy
  3. Do That Which Makes Your Life Easy
  4. WRONG AGAIN
  5. Newspack Helps Hong Kong Free Press Protect Its Stories
  6. Brickomattic: A Celebration of What We Have Built
  7. Women at Work: A Podcast for Creatives on a Platform for Creatives
  8. Lights, Camera, ‘Code for the People’
  9. Automattic Celebrates Graduates of University of Illinois Chicago’s AI Leaders Program
  10. Automattic Joins the Tech Coalition
  11. Pressable, WordPress VIP, and WP Cloud Partners Earn Secure Hosting Alliance Certification
  12. Where Automattic Meets Up
  13. Behind the Fiber-Optic Rope: Engineering WordCamp
  14. How WordPress Sent a Dog (and a Pop Culture Brand) to the Moon
  15. WordPress: The Operating System of the Agentic Web
  16. The One Thing That Changed How I Work
  17. “One For My Baby”
  18. (Almost) No Downtime MariaDB Upgrades
  19. What Automattic’s AI Enablement Training Means for WordPress
  20. A Modest Server-Centric Development Proposal
  21. How Bedfordshire Bird Club Flies High
  22. Fixing Links with the Wayback Machine
  23. Automattic Invests in University of Illinois Chicago Tech Solutions Open Source Fund
  24. Support Journalism with Local News Day

2025 23

  1. Automattic Welcomes Stephen Wolfram as Special Advisor
  2. Why One Podcast Pro Only Has Ears for Pocket Casts
  3. Defending Open Source: Clear, Compelling Counterclaims in our Litigation Against WP Engine
  4. “Sync Overload”—And How to Avoid It
  5. With Newspack, Local Papers Reach a Global Audience
  6. Welcoming the New Beeper with an IRL Group Chat
  7. The New Beeper Is All Plus, No Fuss
  8. How This Mindfulness Coach Uses Day One to Stay Present
  9. Celebrating 20 Years of Automattic
  10. Automattic Welcomes Clay
  11. Dome Is Where the Heart Is: How BFI.org Honors R. Buckminster Fuller
  12. Celebrating Pride at Automattic
  13. Returning to Core
  14. Automattic Donates $30,000 to Launch the Open Horizons Scholarship
  15. The Power of Kindness—and the Power of Automattic
  16. Restructuring Announcement
  17. Open Sourcing Knowledge in the Middle East—and Beyond
  18. The Dress Turns 10: Tumblr’s Cates Holderness on Unraveling the Internet
  19. Parenting While Working: Nicola Hodd’s Story
  20. How a Single Mom of Six Got a Whopping 7,724% ROI with Blaze for WordPress
  21. Jeff Gothelf’s Recipe for Success: Clear Goals, User-Focused Design, and Automattic
  22. Aligning Automattic’s Sponsored Contributions to WordPress
  23. Even noma’s Website Has Great Taste (Thanks to WordPress)

2024 22

  1. Automattic Welcomes WPAI
  2. Automattic Welcomes Harper and Elijah Potter
  3. Defending Open Source: Our Legal Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Complaint
  4. Every Automattician Is Now an Owner of Automattic
  5. Powering the World, Powered by Automattic
  6. Looking Ahead
  7. Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit
  8. WordPress Trademarks: A Legal Perspective
  9. Automattic—WP Engine Term Sheet
  10. Open Source, Trademarks, and WP Engine
  11. Better People Skills Through Science—and Sensei
  12. Automattic Welcomes Pedraum Pardehpoosh as VP of Product
  13. The Secrets of One of the World’s Largest Ad-Free Blogs
  14. Shipping Tumblr and WordPress
  15. ‘The Atavist’ Wins Three Awards for Its Longform Journalism
  16. Heat Up Your Brand’s Reach With Blaze Pro
  17. Live the Suite Life With Automattic For Agencies
  18. One Program, Countless Benefits: Introducing Automattic’s Affiliate Program
  19. The World’s Best Inbox Just Got Better
  20. “Do the Woo” Finds Its Home at WordPress.com
  21. Systems Report: Diagnosing a Linux Performance Regression
  22. Protecting User Choice

2021 1

  1. Jetpack Acquires WordPress Vulnerability Database WPScan