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The Curious Mind
“Start from curiosity. Welcome and seek out difference.” The Dotcom Design team recently completed a series of user interviews in an attempt to better understand small businesses and their needs. We heard from small business owners in a wide range of fields; everything from photography to handmade crafts to coaching clients. These folks came from diverse…
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Taking Gutenberg for a Spin
As part of our quarterly empathy challenge, I attempted to recreate this Longreads post, “Hey, Can I Sleep In Your Room?”: Studying Love with Elizabeth Flock. Beyond copying and pasting the article itself, I attempted to recreate the entire page — site header, content, and footer — to see how far I could push it.…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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