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We are pleased to announce that Ian Stewart ( blog ,  LinkedIn ,  GitHub ,  X ) has been chosen to lead end-to-end customer experience for  WordPress.com  as its Artistic Director and product lead. In a nod to  LVMH ’s organizational structure, Ian will lead in the style of a maison head, ensuring that every part of WordPress.com remains the best managed WordPress experience available. He has been a part of the WordPress.com team for over 14 years, and we’re excited to see what changes he will implement on WordPress.com in this new role. “I got involved with WordPress after growing tired of using Blogger for my personal blog,” Ian says. “This quickly led to the demise of my regular blogging habits as I spent most of my time messing around with my theme…My fooling around with WordPress themes quickly became a delightful obsession as I tried to publicly figure out what I thought about them.” We’re grateful for your obsession w...

If you find yourself diving deeper into the topic of WordPress,  content management systems , and websites, a term you will quickly stumble upon is “PHP.” You will likely hear how crucial PHP is for the Internet and that it is what’s powering WordPress websites. However, what exactly is PHP, and why is it so important? The short answer is that it’s a general-purpose, server-side scripting language . That said, unless you are already knowledgeable in programming and  web development , that probably doesn’t make things much clearer.  In order to help you better understand this topic, we’ll cover PHP in detail below. You’ll learn what PHP is, why it matters, and how it relates to WordPress and pretty much everything you do online. We promise you’ll be surprised to hear how much you likely rely on PHP every day. What is PHP? History, features, and benefits PHP features Benefits of PHP How PHP works: Creating dynamic web content PHP and WordPress: The CMS’ heart an...

Want to give your website a fresh new look? This month, we’re showcasing four new themes designed by the WordPress.com theme team for personal portfolios, creative projects, startups, and podcasting. These new designs are both beautiful and functional, sharing a focus on setting your work, business, or podcast apart. As a reminder, you can access a range of beautiful premium themes on the Personal plan and above, or you can even add your own third-party themes with the Business and Commerce plans. So it’s worth taking a look at the WordPress.com hosting plans and checking out all available themes in case there’s an even better fit for your site. Let’s take a closer look at this month’s featured themes: Dossier Dossier brings a sophisticated, minimalist design to your site, making it perfect for professionals looking to showcase their skills and accomplishments. The theme emphasizes clean typography and ample white space, creating an elegant digital portfolio or resume. With cust...

It’s now time for Part 3 of our “Building Studio in Public” series! In today’s post, we’ll explore how the Studio app connects with other open source projects, with a focus on its key relationship with WordPress Playground . We’ll also dive into the benefits and challenges of this symbiotic relationship, showing how both projects mutually benefit from improvements and bug fixes. If you’re following the series, be sure to check out past posts: Using WordPress Components and Tailwind CSS in our Local Development App . Maintaining High Performance in Our Local Development App for Enhanced UX As a reminder, Studio is our free and open source local WordPress development app. Download Studio for free How Studio connects to other open source projects Studio relies on various open source projects, with the primary one being WordPress Playground which provides a local WordPress server, handling everything from running PHP code to serving static files and managing a database. This a...