Automattic

Automattic is the company “behind” WordPress, insofar as it is the only company licensed to use the trademark “WordPress” in a domain name; and consequently also owns and operates wordpress.com, as well as some bigger WordPress based plugins and projects connected to that.

The owners of WooCommerce, since 2015, Automattic was setup by Matt Mullenweg, after whom the “matt” in the name is derived.

Automattic Owned Businesses

You may or may not know, but the business is behind the following (not exhaustive) list of projects in the wp space:

WordPress.com, Jetpack, WordPress.com VIP, WooCommerce, VaultPress, Akismet, Longreads, Simplenote, Polldaddy, Cloudup, Simperium, Gravatar.

Find our archive below

When content is posted to SiliconDales.com about or relating specifically to Automattic, it will be placed into the archive below, with the most recently updated items nearest the top (but the original date will always display too).

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Introducing Codeable

Codeable is the No. 1 WordPress outsourcing platform, endorsed and invested-in by Automattic – the company behind WordPress.com, which is owned by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. Founded by Tomaž Zaman and Per Esbensen, Codeable is a Danish company which brings together WordPress experts with clients from around the world looking for WordPress customizations and business …

Save £75 on Jetpack Pro with our Holidays Voucher Code!

Silicon Dales have partnered with Automattic in relation to WordPress.com, Jetpack and WooCommerce. This means we are affiliates for the products and services provided – please note, for full disclosure, this does mean we are paid commissions for referring sales to Jetpack, WordPress.com and WooCommerce. Jetpack (and also WordPress.com) have provided an awesome special offer …

Professional Plan Features on Jetpack – the Official Plugin for WordPress

We’ve recently started testing features on Jetpack – the massive plugin from Automattic (the people behind WordPress).

This mega-plugin does everything from SEO to social sharing, backups and video hosting.

Linda Scott from Silicon Dales has been given a testing key to try out the Jetpack Professional plan features and you’ll see her test environment updating here as she works through the various elements.

Jetpack Professional offers to offload everything from video hosting to real-time backups.

Linda Scott Writing for Automattic

Silicon Dales Director, Linda Scott, has just published an article for Automattic, the $1Bn company behind WordPress.com. Linda has written a series of articles about features in Jetpack – the all-in-one plugin made by Automattic. She has also written about use cases for beginners on WordPress.com. See the first article on the Jetpack blog here. …

Silicon Dales are WooCommerce Affiliates

Here is a quick post to explain that Silicon Dales are, as of a couple of weeks ago, WooCommerce affiliates. In addition to being accredited WooExperts (which means we are officially recognised as capable of helping you to build, launch, manage, maintain, develop and otherwise toggle with your WooCommerce store!) Silicon Dales were also invited …

Finding Us on Automattic’s Jetpack.pro

Automattic, the owners of WordPress.com, have recently setup a WordPress professionals directory, which they’re calling Jetpack.pro. You can find us (well, me, actually, as, like with Codeable, they’ve gone down the “human profile page” route (nudge ) and our profile has a human face… mine), at the following link: https://jetpack.pro/profile/robscott/ Its pretty cool that …