It’s so exciting to see what the creative minds like Nick Hamze or Tammie Lister are doing with Automattic’s AI vibe coding tool, Telex. Tammie is doing a Blocktober, a block every day this month of October, you should follow along.

The sun never sets on Automattic, and twice a year, we prove it by virtually uniting and running a 24-hour global 5K relay. Spanning skill levels and time zones, someone is always running somewhere. 🏃🌎🏃‍♀️ Check out some highlights from last week’s relay:

We made something pretty cool, and we're sharing it with you.💙 Meet Telex, a natural language WordPress block creator. Telex lets you generate custom WordPress blocks with just a prompt.

Extra cash is just a few clicks away 💻💸 Recommend your favorite Premium Theme and earn up to 30% commission on referrals. Join the Automattic Affiliate Program using the link in 🧵

Yesterday, we held a special event in Madrid to celebrate 20 years of Automattic! Over 20 journalists from top Spanish outlets joined us to talk about the open web, AI, and the next 20 years. Gracias for being part of it! 💙

The Automattic Trust & Safety team’s vision is to uphold safety while democratizing publishing. Earlier this year, we introduced five guiding pillars: user rights, safety by design, sustainability, empowerment, and transparency.

What does the future of AI and @wordpress.org look like? Our CEO, @ma.tt, joins a special WP Product Talk livestream to share his insights. 🕛 Live at 12PM ET today. Tune in at the link below 👇

Want to turn your real hosting recommendations into a real income? Our Hosting Affiliate guide provides 10 actionable tips for beginners looking to break into hosting marketing.

Heading to Amsterdam for #OSSummit next week? 🙌 Catch Automattic’s @divydovy.com‬ as he takes on one of the defining questions of our time: Who does AI really work for? 🤖

Earn income online by sharing products you love. The new guide from @wordpress.com covers the basics of affiliate marketing, with tools and tips to help beginners start strong. Get the guide at the link below 👇

Why is trust so essential at a distributed company? Ira, Account Executive at @wpvip.com‬, opens up about why trust isn’t just part of the job at Automattic—it’s the reason the work works. Watch now 👇

What makes Automattic different? We’re a fully distributed team in 95 countries—where trust, flexibility, and creativity power everything we do. 🧵

We’re hiring! Join our new NYC AI Team, focused on integrating AI models across our entire product ecosystem. This is new territory for us, not just in scope. This team is fully in-office, based in our NoHo space. Sometimes you have to try the opposite of what you’ve done for 20 years!

We’re still buzzing from last week’s @beeper.com event. Our NoHo Space was packed with familiar faces, live demos of the new Beeper, talks from @ma.tt and @kishan.bsky.social, drinks, apps (the edible kind), and live music to close it out. Here are a few of our favorite moments. 📸 💬

Did ya know @pocketcasts.com, the critically acclaimed podcast app in the Automattic fam, has over 500 million episodes and over 1.5 million active users every month? 🎧 With human-curated recs, smart tools, and cross-device syncing, it’s built to be your favorite podcast app.

Welcome to the new @beeper.com, now with upgraded security, powerful new features, and premium plans like Beeper Plus. This isn’t just a better Beeper, it’s the future of messaging. 💬📱

Now entering the chat: the new @beeper.com. 💬📱

Tomorrow.

We have some big news about our all-in-one chat app, @beeper.com, coming your way tomorrow. Stay tuned! 👀📱

WP Cloud is the only cloud platform built just for WordPress, and it’s powering some serious growth. ☁️

Looking for a weekend listen? Our CEO @ma.tt joined Turner Novak on The Peel podcast for a conversation about the 2000s internet, the early days of Automattic, what he learned running one of the first distributed teams, and lessons on optimism from Walt Disney.

On @wordpress.com, users publish 70 million blog posts every month. That’s 1,600 per minute and 26 every second! 📝

What has @wpvip.com‬ been up to? Oh ya know, just rethinking the enterprise CMS entirely. A brand-new suite of tools just dropped, and it’s a game changer. Smarter workflows. Sharper insights. Stronger growth. Check it out!

Today’s fun fact: there are over 4.6 million online shops powered by @woocommerce.com! 🛒 From small businesses to global brands, Woo helps businesses build on ✨their✨ terms with flexibility, freedom, and full ownership.

Don’t miss this one: @ma.tt joined @theverge.com Editor-in-Chief @reckless.bsky.social in a wide-ranging conversation for Automattic’s 20th anniversary. They discussed what’s next for Automattic and for the open web. It’s a must-read (or listen!) 🧵

Big news! Our 100-Year Domain has been named one of Actualidad Económica’s 100 Best Ideas of 2025. 🏆 We were honored to accept the award in Madrid last week and to be recognized alongside so many bold, forward-thinking projects.

Over 135 million pieces of content have been published on @wpvip.com this year alone! From global publishers to major brands, millions of stories, articles, and ideas are reaching audiences worldwide, all powered by WordPress VIP.

Today marks 20 years of Automattic! 🥂 We span 82 countries, speak 110 languages, and power millions of sites, stores, and conversations through @wordpress.com, @woocommerce.com, and more. Cheers to user freedom, an open web, and software that serves people, not the other way around—and to 20 more!

Every day, our products work behind the scenes to keep the internet safer. 🔒 559B spam blocked. 286B attacks stopped. 99.9% accuracy.

Announcement page design for the @clayhq.bsky.social × @automattic.com news 🚀 Designed with @sketch.com; intro animation created with Rive.

100,000,000,000+ page views. 77,000,000 seconds of video. Every. Day.

Our design blog just got a refresh. 🎨 The open web doesn’t design itself. That’s where our Design team comes in. They build tools for personal expression, rethink commerce, and shape how the internet connects. This is where our designers share ideas, stories, and lessons from the work!

Say hello to Clay, now part of Automattic! 💫 Clay helps you stay on top of your relationships by gathering your contacts, messages, meetings, and more. No spreadsheets, no manual updates, just one organized place for your network.

Howdy, Matt Mullenweg and Mary Hubbard! Did you catch their Fireside chat at #WCEU2025? Here are some of our favorite snaps. 📸🎙️

We’re fully remote, with 1,400+ Automatticians across 82 countries, from Peru to Sri Lanka, Morocco to Japan. 🌍 We speak 110 languages and share one mission: make the web a better place.

AI isn’t just disrupting content management—it’s redefining it. Join guest speaker, Forrester’s Chuck Gahun, and Michael Khalili from @wpvip.com on June 11 for a fast, forward-looking webinar on the future of AI in enterprise CMS.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute modernized its website to reflect Buckminster Fuller’s timeless vision. Hosted on Pressable and integrated with @jetpackcat.bsky.social and @woocommerce.com, it's now as resilient as the iconic geodesic dome itself. Check out the full story below 🌐🧵

We're honored to be named one of @newsweek.com's Global Most Loved WorkplacesⓇ 2025! This recognition, for three consecutive years, means the world to us. It's often said that the best part of Automattic is our people, and we couldn't agree more.

Automattic turns 20 this month! 🎂We’re celebrating with a look at some of the stats behind our story. First up: @wordpress.org powers 43% of all websites on the internet. Nearly half of the web!

It’s Pride Month, and we’re spotlighting Queeromattic, our internal LGBTQIA+ community here at Automattic. 🏳️‍🌈 We believe in building a web and workplace where everyone belongs. 🧵 #Pride

We have a message (and a discount) for all of the graduates out there: Your next chapter deserves more than just a LinkedIn update. With @wordpress.com, you can create a personal site that tells your story, your way.

We are proud to announce the Automattic Open Horizons Scholarship, a $30K fund to help WordPress contributors from underrepresented backgrounds cover the costs of attending flagship WordPress events worldwide. It’s a step toward a more inclusive, resilient, and globally representative community. 🚀🧵

From posting countless blogs to creating the backbone of the open web, thank you to everyone who has been building, innovating, and dreaming with @wordpress.org. Happy 22nd birthday to the world's most popular CMS! 🎂

Can we quantify the impact of something as essential as kindness? At Kindness.org, CEO Jaclyn Lindsey & her team are doing just that. Using clinical research, real-world solutions, & a site powered by Automattic, they are making kindness actionable & measurable. 🔬🫶👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ch2...

🏆Our 100-Year Plan has been recognized by Actualidad Económica, the business magazine of Spain’s national newspaper @elmundo.es.web.brid.gy, as one of the 100 Best Ideas of 2025! 🧵

👀 20 years of WordPress. Let’s talk about it. Our CEO, Matt Mullenweg, is hitting the stage at #SaaStockUSA for a deep dive into the open source impact—how it started, how it’s going, and what’s next. 👇🧵

Some 📸’s from our portrait booth at #OFFFBarcelona!

Design magic happens ~in progress~ @cbusquets.bsky.social gave a great talk at #OFFFBarcelona today, where she emphasized how feedback, iteration, and vulnerability spark innovation.

Proud to see Automattic featured by PowerToFly for our commitment to internal mobility 💪 Automattic’s Learn team plays a key role in helping Automatticians grow their skills, explore new paths, and evolve their careers from within. 🧵

Everyone’s talking about Netflix’s new docuseries “Bad Influence”—but did you know it all started with a story from Automattic’s own @atavist.com? “Crushed,” a longform investigation from The Atavist, exposed the dark side of YouTube stardom and the role parents played behind the scenes.