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WooCommerce Marketplace extensions and themes stand out because they are purpose-built solutions for store owners looking to improve or scale their shops. That built-in intent makes them easier to promote effectively, especially if your content speaks directly to those needs. In this guide, you will learn how to match products to common store challenges and create content that resonates with ready-to-buy audiences.

Your Automattic for Agencies account now connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools through our new read-only MCP. We deliver your account and program standing straight into your preferred AI tool, ready to answer a question on demand, deliver a recurring report on your schedule, or power a living artifact your team works with.

Job Thomas is Automattic’s interim Chief Customer Experience Officer. At the Customer Experience Management Africa Summit in Cape Town, I encountered the same point in several different conversations: AI in support is amplifying a bad pattern, not creating a new one. Most companies run tiered support. When a customer has a problem, they enter at Tier 1; when it becomes clear their problem is too complex for Tier 1, you’ll move to Tier 2.

AI isn’t a distant trend affiliates need to prepare for. It’s already reshaping how content on the internet is planned, written, and optimized across the web. Affiliates are discovering that AI tools for affiliate marketing can make the entire process of creating and refining content faster and more efficient. But AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude are not shortcuts to instant commissions.

Company News October 31, 2024 Automattic, and our CEO Matt Mullenweg, are devoted to the ethos of open source, democratizing publishing through the WordPress platform and protecting the thriving, collaborative ecosystem built around software that powers over 40% of the web.

In 2015, following months of pro-democracy protests, Tom Grundy founded Hong Kong Free Press, which bills itself as the city’s “only independent English-language news source.” Since then, Hong Kong has slipped further down the World Press Freedom Index. Free Press journalists navigate “one of the most complicated press-freedom situations in the world,” says Grundy, the site’s editor-in-chief.

Verònica Fuerte is the founder and “creative directress” of Barcelona’s Hey Studio, where her team builds visual languages for clients and projects around the world. When she looks at the design industry, she sees something that’s always been true but too often overlooked: Women have been shaping it all along, they just haven’t always gotten the credit.

dev/ai/nyc with Khyati Trehan Wednesday July 22, 20265:30 PM-8:30 PM Join for Khyati Trehan and Kelly Hoffman a fireside chat exploring the intersection of art and technology. Khyati, a Design Lead at Google Creative Lab, develops visual systems and experimental tools, while dedicating her personal art practice to tinkering with early-stage technology. Kelly, Head of Design at Automattic, worked primarily in startups before going to art school at UConn to concentrate in Communication Design.

On June 23, around 40 students from Illinois and Louisiana will wrap up the year at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) as the first graduating cohort of AI Leaders—the nation’s first workforce-focused AI literacy course tied to a recognized credential. These students built real WordPress projects. They applied generative AI to real work. For example, Stephen Poole completed the Ultimate Success track and posted a reflection after every session, and shipped his portfolio at stefanpoole.dev.

Automattic was built on the belief that publishing should be open and accessible to everyone. That mission only means something if the spaces where people create, connect, and share are also safe—especially for kids. Today, we’re proud to announce that Automattic has joined the Tech Coalition, a global alliance of technology companies working together to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA).