Neowin News Feed for: Automattic

Pocket Casts is getting a feature Apple Podcasts has had for a while

David Uzondu — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:22:01 +0000

Pocket Casts has announced a new addition for its subscribers, one that users of Apple Podcasts have had for a while. Read more...

WordPress gets an AI assistant that can write blog posts, correct grammar, translate content

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:52:01 +0000

Automattic has launched a new AI-powered writing assistant for WordPress. The assistant can write blog posts, correct grammar, translate content, and chat with the author among various features. Read more...

Tumblr now allows users to browse ad-free for $4.99 a month

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:30:01 +0000

Tumblr is introducing a new subscription for users that want to browse without any advertisements on its platform for $4.99 a month or a discounted price of $39.99 if they opt for a year. Read more...

Automattic buys Tumblr from Verizon for reportedly less than $20 million

Rich Woods — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:26:02 +0000

WordPress.com owner Automattic is picking up Tumblr from Verizon, for a reported price of less than $20 million, a sharp decline in Tumblr's value since Yahoo bought it for $1.1 billion. Read more...

Google partners with Automattic to support local news with Newspack

João Carrasqueira — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:26:01 +0000

Google has partnered with the company behind WordPress.com to launch Newspack, an initiative to provide local news publications with the necessary tools to make their content available. Read more...

Google Photos can now integrate with your WordPress.com blog

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:38:01 +0000

To better integrate yet another Google service, WordPress.com now offers the ability to insert your Google Photos directly into your blog pots. Self-hosted blogs need to use the Jetpack plugin. Read more...

Wordpress.com Business plan users now have access to plugins and third-party themes

George Karmpoulonis — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:22:01 +0000

Automattic announced that users with business-level accounts on the popular WordPress.com platform can now install plugins and third-party themes built by the WordPress community. Read more...

WordPress.com's Reader gets brand new Combined Cards feature

Florin Bodnarescu — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:20:01 +0000

WordPress.com has announced a change to the way posts appear in Reader. If a site happens to post more content, uninterrupted and from the same day, those entries will be combined into one card. Read more...

WordPress.com gets improved media handling

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:44:01 +0000

Automattic-owned WordPress.com has changed the way in which users can interact with and access the Media Library. Improvements have been made to search, upload, and editing of media. Read more...

WordPress.com unveils a series of design changes for its editor

Florin Bodnarescu — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:28:01 +0000

The WordPress.com editor has received a series of design changes with this newest iteration, including a "distraction-free writing mode", permanently visible publish and preview buttons, and more. Read more...

WordPress.com add-on now available for Google Docs

Florin Bodnarescu — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:56:01 +0000

People using WordPress as their CMS and Google Docs as their preferred writing platform can now integrate the two via a new add-on. This allows you to post directly from the latter to the former. Read more...

Automattic announces that it will begin selling .blog domains soon

Jack Wilkinson — Fri, 13 May 2016 00:10:01 +0000

Automattic has announced that it will begin to sell .blog top-level domains soon after acquiring the rights to oversee the registration of the gTLD. Pricing for the new gTLD is not yet available. Read more...

Facebook's Instant Articles will soon be available for Wordpress sites

Rich Woods — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 20:08:01 +0000

Facebook and Automattic have teamed up to create a plug-in that will allow blogs to support Facebook's Instant Articles platform. The platform allows publishers to publish directly to Facebook. Read more...