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Who is Automattic

Automattic, Inc. is a web development corporation founded in August 2005. It is most notable for WordPress.com(a free blogging service), as well as its contributions to WordPress (open source blogging software). The company’s name plays on its founder’s first name, Matt. The company has 478 employees. Its culture was the topic of a participative journalism…

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What is WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a blog web hosting service provider owned by Automattic, and powered by the open sourceWordPress software. This website provides free blog hosting for registered users and is financially supported via paid upgrades, “VIP” services and advertising. The site opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on November…

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What is WordPress

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress is installed on a web server, which either is part of an Internet hosting service or is a network host itself; the first case may be on a service like WordPress.com, for example, and the second case is a…

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