# Features, news, and more: See what’s been going on in Automattic’s world.

## [WordPress: The Operating System of the Agentic Web](https://automattic.com/2026/04/21/wordpress-operating-system-agentic-web/)
The very things that made WordPress successful as a human platform make it even more powerful as an agentic one.

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## [The One Thing That Changed How I Work](https://automattic.com/2026/04/06/the-one-thing-that-changed-how-i-work/)
Paolo Belcastro, Artistic Director for Automattic’s Domains Maison, pens a thoughtful piece about what he learned from coaching.

## [“One For My Baby”](https://automattic.com/2026/03/11/one-for-my-baby/)
For one Automattician, paid parental leave turned out to be “the best benefit I got in my life.”

## [(Almost) No Downtime MariaDB Upgrades](https://automattic.com/2026/03/06/mariadb-upgrades/)
From time to time, our systems engineers write up a case study detailing a notable moment on the infrastructure front lines. The latest comes from Andrija Vucinic, an Automattician on our Systems Operations team, who is upgrading our fleet of database servers to MariaDB 11.8.

## [What Automattic’s AI Enablement Training Means for WordPress](https://automattic.com/2026/02/25/ai-enablement-wordpress/)
Automattic recently brought a group of employees to New York City for two weeks of intensive AI training. Birgit Pauli-Haack shares what the team built, what changed, and what it means for the WordPress ecosystem.

## [A Modest Server-Centric Development Proposal](https://automattic.com/2026/02/17/server-centric-development/)
Automattician Sérgio Gomes argues that JavaScript-heavy approaches like React aren’t compatible with long-term performance goals.

## [How Bedfordshire Bird Club Flies High](https://automattic.com/2026/02/10/bedfordshire-bird-club-wordpress/)
One redesign later, the club has a modern, mobile-friendly site that puts essential birding information right where it’s needed: in members’ hands.

## [Fixing Links with the Wayback Machine](https://automattic.com/2026/02/04/wayback-machine-wordpress-link-fixer/)
Automattic is excited to collaborate with the Internet Archive to launch the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer, a new free WordPress plugin that keeps your links alive.

## [Automattic Invests in University of Illinois Chicago Tech Solutions Open Source Fund](https://automattic.com/2026/02/03/uic-tech-solutions-open-source-fund/)

## [Support Journalism with Local News Day ](https://automattic.com/2026/01/29/local-news-day/)

## [Automattic Welcomes Stephen Wolfram as Special Advisor](https://automattic.com/2025/12/19/stephen-wolfram-special-advisor/)

## [“Sync Overload”—And How to Avoid It](https://automattic.com/2025/08/20/sync-overload-and-how-to-avoid-it/)
You might think that, as a remote, fully distributed company, we spend half our time stuck in Zoom meetings. But the truth is just the opposite.

## [With Newspack, Local Papers Reach a Global Audience](https://automattic.com/2025/08/12/newspack-haitian-times/)
Newspack’s publisher-focused WordPress stack has helped The Haitian Times more than double its reader revenue.