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WordPress.com is looking for affiliates to help promote our suite of open-source products, including WordPress.com hosting, domains, Express Website Design Service, WP Job Manager, and more! If you’ve got an audience, you’ve got the potential to elevate your earnings by becoming an affiliate for one or more of our eligible products.

Getting started is simple. Sign up with your details and our team of experts will verify your account. Once approved, you can start creating affiliate campaigns for the products you’ve selected—all from your personalized dashboard. 

No matter if you’re an influencer, blogger, or reporter, WordPress.com doesn’t take much selling to get your audience on board, thanks to a strong reputation and range of built-in publishing, monetization, and promotion tools. So you can spend less time thinking about how to pitch WordPress.com and Automattic’s related products to your existing audience, and more time growing your business. As you start generating signups, you’ll see payouts of up to 100%, and a much longer than normal 30-day cookie period, so you’ll still get those commissions up to 30 days after someone clicks your links. 

Our convenient dashboard makes your affiliate marketing easier as you manage and track all your promotions for WordPress.com products in one place. Monitor your campaign’s performance, make data-driven adjustments and optimizations, and watch your commissions soar. Plus, our creative templates and tools make it easy to create content to help drive affiliate traffic. 

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Become an affiliate for any of the following WordPress.com products and services:

WordPress.com hosting. Lightning-fast, secure hosting designed from the ground up for WordPress.

WordPress.com domains. Promote 350+ domain extensions, from .com to .xyz, and everything in between.

Express Website Design Service. Sites designed and built for you in four days or less by our WordPress.com Happiness Engineers.

WP Job Manager. The open source job board plugin, powering job listings for 100,000+ websites.

Sensei. The best plugin to create and sell interactive online courses with WordPress.

Our offerings extend beyond WordPress.com, too. If your audience is interested in Automattic’s other products, you can also become an affiliate for any of the following brands and manage all your campaigns in one place:

WooCommerce

An extensive range of vetted WooCommerce extensions, themes, and services such as WooCommerce Subscriptions, Product Bundles, and WooCommerce Zapier.

Jetpack

Security, performance, and marketing tools made for WordPress sites by the WordPress experts, including Jetpack Security, Complete, Stats, Scan, and more. 

Akismet Anti-Spam

Scalable AI-powered comment, form, and text spam filtering with 99.99% accuracy.

Ready to partner with us and grow your income with WordPress.com or our other Automattic brands? Learn more and sign up now at wordpress.com/affiliates.  

We recently launched Studio, our free and open source local WordPress development environment, for MacOS, and we’re happy to share that the Windows version of Studio is now available!

As a reminder, we’ve built Studio to be the fastest and simplest way to build WordPress sites locally.

A new default local WordPress development environment

In less than one month, Studio has thousands of active users, and those users have created hundreds of demo sites. Plus, since Studio is open source, we’ve received and merged bug fixes and enhancements from community users over on GitHub.

It has been so exciting to see the WordPress community embrace a better local development setup with Studio:

Of course, we knew that a Windows version of Studio was also needed, as over 25% of WordPress developers develop on a Windows machine. We worked on a Windows version alongside the Mac version, but the Windows version required us to solve some additional challenges before making it widely available. 

Plus, developers started requesting it immediately:

Comments on our Studio announcement video

Download Studio for Windows for free today

Our free Windows version of Studio is now available, and you can get up and running with a local site on your Windows computer in just a few clicks:

Download Studio for Windows.

Install and open Studio.

Click Add site, and you’re done!

Note: If you use an early version of Studio for Windows (downloaded before May 29, 2024), please follow the steps above to install the latest version to ensure you receive updates when available.

Just like in our Mac version of Studio, Studio for Windows allows you to access WP Admin, the Site Editor, global styles, and patterns, all with just one click—and without needing to remember and enter a username or password. You can also easily open your site code in File Explorer, PhpStorm, VS Code, or your terminal for easy editing and shipping.

You can also effortlessly create demo sites on the Windows version of Studio so you can share your local work with your clients, teams, and colleagues.

Development on Studio is fast and quick thanks to our use of WordPress Playground helping us run the app behind the scenes. 

Ready to get building?

Download Studio for Windows today to start creating and running WordPress sites directly on your local Windows machine.

You can also explore the Studio documentation for more step-by-step instructions for using Studio, and if you have any thoughts, feedback, or enhancement requests, submit an issue over on GitHub.

From List View to keyboard shortcuts to the powerful Command Palette, the WordPress Block Editor is loaded with time-saving tricks that will streamline your workflows and ensure that you’re operating at peak efficiency. In this Build and Beyond video, Jamie Marsland shows us his five favorite WordPress Block Editor time savers.

Ready to get going? Start your free trial today:

An “anchor” link is a link that takes readers to a specific spot on the same page (rather than taking them to a new page altogether). It’s like a shortcut. In most cases, clicking that link brings readers to the desired place with an abrupt jump. In today’s Build and Beyond video, Jamie Marsland shows you how to make that transition a smooth scroll instead of a jump, making for a more pleasant reading and browsing experience.

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In recent weeks, we’ve announced a few new tools for developers that make WordPress.com the best place to build any WordPress site: Studio local dev app, GitHub Deployments, improved navigation and user interface, and more. 

Today, we’re continuing the streak with our latest feature: scheduled updates for plugins. 

Say goodbye to the hassle of manual updates because streamlined plugin management tools are here and designed to elevate your site’s reliability and performance.

Plugin updates on your terms 

With our newly launched scheduled updates, you can set the exact time and day for updates to occur, ensuring they happen when it’s most convenient for you and your clients. Best of all, this feature is free to use on our Creator and Entrepreneur plans. We won’t name names, but update scheduling is often a paid add-on at other hosts. 

At the selected time, our system automatically checks for available updates for the plugins included in your schedule. If updates are available, the system initiates the process, starting with a health check to ensure your site’s stability. Each plugin is updated individually, with another health check performed after each update to verify everything is functioning as expected.

Should a health check fail, our system will automatically roll back the update and restore the previous version. In the rare event that a rollback is unsuccessful, our dedicated Happiness Engineers are standing by to manually restore your site and assist you further.

To stay on top of what’s running in the background, you can opt to receive an email notification after each scheduled update summarizing the plugins that were updated as well as any update or health check failures. (These emails aren’t sent if no updates are found.) Additionally, you can easily monitor the results of the most recent schedule run on the Scheduled Updates screen under Plugins → Scheduled Updates.

Why does it matter?

Let’s say you run an ecommerce store on WordPress.com. Your site relies on key plugins for inventory management and payment processing. In the past, updating plugins during business hours could lead to downtime and potentially lost sales. With scheduled updates, you can now plan updates for off-peak hours, when you’re at home restfully sleeping, ensuring essential functionality remains intact during busy periods while keeping your site secure and up-to-date. Scheduling updates for your payment processing plugin to occur every Sunday at 2:00 AM will greatly minimize shoppers’ disruptions.

Why our scheduled updates are better

No additional charge: Scheduled updates are included with our Creator and Entrepreneur plans at no extra cost. 

Multiple schedules: Create separate schedules for different plugins, offering greater flexibility and control compared to competitors.

Specific scheduling: Schedule updates at a specific hour for precise timing control.

Customizable health check paths: Specify custom paths for health checks and testing on a per-site basis, providing unparalleled flexibility. 

Granular schedule pausing: Pause individual update schedules for targeted control, a feature not offered by other hosts.

Detailed logging: Comprehensive logging of update activities, including successes, failures, and rollbacks, ensures transparency and accountability.

Faster setup: Our setup process is lightning-fast, with no need for extra information collection or onboarding.

How to get started

Creating a schedule for plugin updates is fast and convenient:

Install your desired plugins on a Creator or Entrepreneur site. (Plugins included in our plan offerings or purchased through the WordPress.com Marketplace are kept up-to-date by WordPress.com and do not need to be scheduled.)

Navigate to the Updates Manager: Plugins → Scheduled Updates. (Click here to visit the multisite update manager.)

Click “Add new schedule” and select your desired update frequency.

Choose the plugins you’d like to include in the schedule.

Click “Create” to activate your schedule.

For more details, visit our Update a Plugin or Theme support page.

Take control of your plugin updates 

Click here to get started with a free hosting trial and experience the peace of mind that comes with scheduled updates.

Stay tuned for more enhancements coming soon, including the ability to create update schedules for multiple sites at once and many more features.

It may be hard to believe, but we’re nearly halfway through 2024, which means it’s not too early to start thinking ahead to next year. In this Build and Beyond video, Jamie Marsland speaks with Nick Diego, a Developer Relations Advocate and Core Contributor at WordPress.org, about ensuring you’re prepared for the exciting developments in store for WordPress in 2025. 

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There’s no better way to quickly build a WordPress website than with patterns, whether you’re a seasoned pro using patterns to quickly mock up wireframes or a dabbling hobbyist using them for your finished product. In today’s Build and Beyond video, Jamie Marsland shows you how to use patterns to build your site with WordPress blocks.

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A website speaks to its visitors not only through its content and imagery, but also with its typography. A carefully selected font can set the site’s tone, convey emotion, and leave a lasting impression. 

With the new Font Library on WordPress.com, you can now upload custom typography without the hassle of coding or the limitations of plugins. It’s not just about choosing fonts; it’s about effortlessly crafting an experience for your visitors. 

Available on WordPress.com sites with the Creator or Entrepreneur plan, the Font Library allows you to manage your site’s typography in one place. Installing, removing, and activating or deactivating fonts across your entire site is a breeze. 

To access the Font Library, head to the Site Editor and open the “Styles” side panel. Once there, select “Typography” and select the settings icon next to the “Fonts” heading.

Once in the Font Library, you will see the list of available fonts for your site: those that come with your theme, as well as any custom fonts you have installed. 

There are two ways to install fonts: 

Manually upload the font files from the “Upload” tab

Connect to Google Fonts on the “Install Fonts” tab, then download any selected fonts to your site

In addition to this high-level customization, the Font Library also provides granular control of the font weights that you’d like to enable, minimizing the effects on site speed because it’s only what you need that’s being loaded. 

Level up your site by adding that extra touch of typography personality by using the Font Library, no code or plugins needed. To learn more, check out the support article.