Tag Archives: automattic

Goodbye Soma, Hello Automattic

I’m excit­ed (and maybe a touch sad) to announce that I’m shut­ter­ing Soma Design to join the great, grow­ing team at Automat­tic to help build the best pub­lish­ing plat­form on the plan­et. As a Theme Engi­neer, I’ll be work­ing with the brand-new Cus­tom Design team to pro­vide some awe­some tools for cus­tomiz­ing your WordPress.com theme […]

WordPress 2.6 Released

Word­Press 2.6 is released way ahead of sched­ule, with new use­ful fea­tures such as post revi­sions, an impres­sive book­marklet, great­ly enhanced pho­to gallery fea­tures, theme pre­view­ing and Gears integration.

Automattic Raises $29.5 Million

Automat­tic, the com­pa­ny behind the WordPress.com ser­vice and open-source blog­ging soft­ware, just announced a sec­ond round of fund­ing. What are the implications?