Del Putnam posted: " Over the last thirteen years or so, the number of sites on WordPress.com has grown -- a lot. Every one of those sites gets a unique wordpress.com address. And since there are millions of sites created each year, it means the address you'd like isn't"
Over the last thirteen years or so, the number of sites on WordPress.com has grown -- a lot. Every one of those sites gets a unique wordpress.com address. And since there are millions of sites created each year, it means the address you'd like isn't always available.
Today, a whole new range of possibility opens up: free .blog subdomains.
What's a subdomain?
Glad you asked! This site's address is is blog.wordpress.com. Here, wordpress.com is the domain and blog is the subdomain.
Say your name is Molly and you're starting a food blog. The domain mollysfoodblog.wordpress.com -- that is, the subdomain "mollysfoodblog" on wordpress.com -- is already taken by someone. Or you're starting a website to offer tech advice; but there's already a site using techadvice.wordpress.com, drat!
Now you have more options: you can choose to use a free subdomain with a .blog address, like mollys.food.blog or advice.tech.blog. There's a list of popular .blog domains we've reserved just for this:
art.blog
business.blog
car.blog
code.blog
data.blog
design.blog
family.blog
fashion.blog
finance.blog
fitness.blog
food.blog
game.blog
health.blog
home.blog
law.blog
movie.blog
music.blog
news.blog
photo.blog
poetry.blog
politics.blog
school.blog
science.blog
sport.blog
tech.blog
travel.blog
video.blog
water.blog
These .blog subdomains work just like the regular wordpress.com subdomains -- they don't expire, they're free to use for the lifetime of your site, and you can always replace them with a custom domain at any time.
How do I get one?
First, create your new site. In the first step of signup, we'll ask you about your goal for your site -- select only the "Share ideas, experiences, updates, reviews, stories, videos, or photos" option. In our experience, the people who select this option generally find that a .blog subdomain fits their site well. Fill out the other fields as well, and click Continue.
Now, in the next step when searching for a site address, you'll see a free option at the top of the list. We'll suggest a .blog subdomain related to the terms you entered in the first step. For example, if you searched for "Tech Advice," we might suggest advice.tech.blog as an address for your site.
Click Select next to the address you choose, and you're all set,
Your new website and its perfect address are only a few clicks away. If you start a new site with a .blog subdomain, let us know in the comments! We'd love see what you create.
Deborah Beckett posted: "Automattic wants to build a new web, and a new type of workplace. We want to deliver world-class 24/7 support to our users, and an innovative, exciting, and healthy work environment for our staff worldwide. As a part of this, we recruit from all timezon"
Automattic wants to build a new web, and a new type of workplace. We want to deliver world-class 24/7 support to our users, and an innovative, exciting, and healthy work environment for our staff worldwide. As a part of this, we recruit from all timezones so that everyone has the freedom to choose their own work hours.
In Happiness in particular, we want to provide better support coverage in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, and our APAC recruiting efforts have included everything from advertising on social media and job boards to in-person networking at WordCamps and WordPress Meetups.
While we've hired some great Happiness Engineers, we discovered that the ratio of women applicants was dropping over time. As awareness of Automattic as a distributed employer has grown in the region, the number of applications from men has grown faster than those from women.
Given Automattic's commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion, we brainstormed ways to reach women more effectively. This turned into a series of workshops on WooCommerce held for women in India and Singapore throughout 2018.
In 2019 we'll take our message to a broader audience by offering an online workshop. This will let us reach women in many more countries and cities than we could ever visit in a calendar year. We're partnering with Support Driven, an online community of support professionals, to promote support as a career for women who may have the relevant skills but haven't applied for these roles.
In January 2019 we'll launch the first online workshop for women in APAC focused on developing skills in WordPress support. The course will cover:
Goals of great customer support
Developing your own support philosophy
WordPress troubleshooting
Productivity tools
Support as a career
By the end of the course, students will have developed a résumé and portfolio site on WordPress to share with potential employers.
Want to be notified about this and other upcoming workshops? Sign up here!
Nate Heagy posted: "Starting a new website is always exciting: you've chosen a topic, found the right name, and started building it on WordPress.com. Now you may be asking yourself, "What's next?" Well, when you create a site on the WordPress for Android or WordPress for iO"
Starting a new website is always exciting: you've chosen a topic, found the right name, and started building it on WordPress.com.
Now you may be asking yourself, "What's next?" Well, when you create a site on the WordPress for Android or WordPress for iOS mobile apps, the answer will became a lot easier with the introduction of Quick Start, a new tool that guides you through the setup process.
How Quick Start works
After you create a new site on your WordPress app, you'll see a prompt asking if you want some assistance setting it up. Tap Yes! and you'll find Quick Start: a short list of to-do items that will set you on the path to success.
With Quick Start, you'll be able to…
View your site from within the apps.
Select a new theme.
Customize your site.
Create a new blog post.
Set up your sharing preferences.
Follow new sites in the WordPress.com Reader.
These are all tasks that will help you start on the right foot. Exploring these options won't take very long, but once you've gone through the list you'll have a website ready to welcome its first visitors — and all the pieces in place for future growth and success.
Available now
Quick Start is part of the WordPress for Android app (version 10.8 or higher) and WordPress for iOS (version 11.1). If you've got an iPhone, iPad, or Android device and have been thinking of launching a new site, this is the time to take the plunge!
Daniele Bogo posted: " We've made a small change to the WordPress mobile apps to make it easier for you to navigate and edit your pages. In previous versions of WordPress for iOS and Android, your pages were ordered by the date they were created as opposed to what your actua"
We've made a small change to the WordPress mobile apps to make it easier for you to navigate and edit your pages. In previous versions of WordPress for iOS and Android, your pages were ordered by the date they were created as opposed to what your actual page hierarchy looks like on your website. Users told us they found it difficult to find the page they were looking to edit, so we've now updated this section to match the layout of your site.Read more of this post
Peter Slutsky posted: "A few weeks ago we announced our partnership with voter-registration initiative TurboVote Challenge. Well, today is the day! From coast to coast, voters in the United States head to the polls for the 2018 midterm election. Hopefully, by now you've made "
A few weeks ago we announced our partnership with voter-registration initiative TurboVote Challenge. Well, today is the day! From coast to coast, voters in the United States head to the polls for the 2018 midterm election.
Hopefully, by now you've made a plan to get to the polls. If you have any questions about your polling location (or if you need help getting there), we have some important resources for you below.
If you've voted, like this post, share it with your friends, and leave us a comment below. Better yet: blog about it! Remember to to tag it with "#2018Midterms" and "#MidtermElections2018" so that others might find it in the WordPress.com Reader and join the conversation.
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