“How can I get more views to my blog?”

At work, we were recently asked to examine a common problem among bloggers of all types: how to get more views. As someone who has been blogging since before it was called “blogging”, web traffic is still a bit of a black box to me. Any success I’ve had has been the result of persistence …

Adding WooCommerce Support to Libre 2

The Theme Team is hard at work adding support for WooCommerce to some of our popular themes, and last week I wrapped up my first rotation. My project was to add WooCommerce support to an existing free theme, Libre 2. Despite being a long-time WordPress user, I have relatively little experience with WooCommerce and its …

The Support Rotation: My Annual Empathy Booster

In addition to doing three weeks of support during our start at Automattic, every employee does an annual support rotation, putting aside their regular jobs for a few hours over the course of the year to join our Happiness Engineers in helping Automattic's customers. I had the opportunity to do my support rotation at this …

Where Illustration and Themes Meet

As an illustrator, one of the reasons I started working with WordPress themes was the need for a portfolio website that reflected my style — whimsical, colorful, and a bit cute. Themes in this genre were sparse at the time, so I learned how to build my own. When I felt confident enough in my skills, I …