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WordPress.com Changelog: AI Assistant Opt-in on All Current Paid Plans and A New Way to Build Sites from Your Terminal
More AI for more people, a new way to build with WordPress in the terminal, and a theme that turns blogging into a social feed.
Go From Idea to Live Ecommerce Store in One Hour
Learn how to set up, design, and launch your own online store with WooCommerce on WordPress.com in our new free, self-paced course.
A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com
At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, on a site that’s entirely yours. If you’ve been thinking about starting your …
Your WordPress Expert in the Terminal: Try the Studio Code Beta
Studio Code is a CLI coding agent for WordPress that builds sites from descriptions, manages local environments, and validates content. Now in beta.
WordPress.com Changelog: Try the WordPress 7.0 Beta and a One-Click Solution for Plugin Errors
Test the WordPress 7.0 beta on WordPress.com, upgraded the block editor and fix fatal plugin errors in just one click.
Spry Fox Has Been Making Games for 15 Years. Their Blog Is Still One of Their Best Growth Tools.
Spry Fox has grown its audience for 15 years with a blog, newsletter, and community. Here’s why their WordPress.com site still matters.
How to Build an Endless Stream of Content Ideas with WordPress and Claude
Connect Claude to your WordPress.com site and use your own data to find content gaps, prioritize topics, generate outlines, and publish posts without switching tools.
How HealthPress.io Used WordPress.com to Power a Growing European Lifestyle Health Movement
How HealthPress.io uses WordPress.com and Automattic for Agencies to power a European lifestyle medicine community of clinics, courses, and 600+ students.
Murphy Levesque Co-Founded an Animal Rescue at 11. Her WordPress.com Site Helped Save Over 100 Animals.
Murphy Levesque co-founded Hidden Gem Animal Rescue at 11. Here's how a WordPress.com site helped her rescue over 100 animals.
What We Learned (and Loved) at WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai
WordCamp Asia 2026 brought thousands of WordPress users to Mumbai. Here's what happened — from AI and education to new WordPress.com features and what's next.
How to Choose Headless WordPress Hosting: A 2026 Checklist
A step-by-step checklist for choosing headless WordPress hosting in 2026, covering backend, frontend, and rendering decisions without overcomplicating it.
How Knockers Design Builds Complex Client Work on WordPress.com
Find out how Knockers Design builds sophisticated client websites with WordPress.com.
WordPress.com Changelog: A New Telegram Bot and Complimentary Newsletter Subscriptions
Chat with your WordPress.com site on Telegram and easily manage complimentary paid newsletter access for your subscribers.
The Top 10 Creative WordPress Themes with Real Personality
Your website is your corner of the internet. It should be as unique as you are. Here are 10 creative WordPress themes with real personality, tested and reviewed, so you can get straight to building.
Give Friends Free Access with Complimentary Subscriptions
Jetpack Newsletter offers complimentary subscriptions that let you give any subscriber free access to your paid plans, right from your subscriber list.
How WordPress 7.0 Is Building the Foundation for AI-Powered Sites
WordPress 7.0 introduces a shared foundation for AI-powered sites. Here's what the Abilities API, AI Client, and MCP Adapter do and how they fit together.
New in WordPress Studio: Studio CLI on npm & phpMyAdmin Access
Install WordPress Studio via npm and manage your local database with phpMyAdmin — no extra tools required.
Plugins, Global Styles, and More: Now on Every WordPress.com Paid Plan
Every paid WordPress.com plan now includes plugins, Global Styles, font uploads, and custom CSS. Here's what's new, what's already on your account, and what higher-tier plans still offer.
How Consultings Company Became Brazil’s First Automattic Partner by Betting on Owned Digital
Julia and Gianmarco Schiavi founded Consultings Company in Brazil to help businesses build complete digital ecosystems. They're now the first Automattic partners in Latin America, and WordPress.com is in every client contract.
Top WordPress Design Trends for 2026: Interactivity, AI, and the Return to Ownership
WordPress design is about faster, smarter, and more interactive websites, alongside a renewed focus on owning your platform and audience. This guide breaks down the biggest WordPress web design trends shaping 2026.
WordPress.com Changelog: Enabling AI Agents to Work on Your Site and More Control Over Newsletter Sending
Learn about the new features now available to you on WordPress.com, including AI content management, email newsletter defaults, UPI payments in India, and editor updates.
Barbara Kingsley Started TikTok at 77. Now She Has 100,000 Followers and a Website to Match.
Discover how Barbara Kingsley became a TikTok influencer and built her WordPress website on WordPress.com.
Jetpack Social Just Got a Major Upgrade: Create, Customize, Preview, and Share with Confidence
Jetpack 15.6 includes a big update to Jetpack Social, including per-platform customization, AI image generation, and more.
How Encircle Technologies Built a Smarter Agency Stack Around WordPress.com
Encircle Technologies runs client sites and complex projects at scale. Learn why the agency chose WordPress.com to handle performance, reduce plugin overhead, and simplify management.
Your AI agent can now create, edit, and manage content on WordPress.com
Connect AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to your WordPress.com site and let them create, edit, and manage content for you – with full control over every change.
How LUBUS Turned WordPress.com into a Competitive Advantage
Learn how LUBUS moved 80% of client projects to WordPress.com and built a faster, more scalable agency workflow in the process.
Scott Wilson Got a Second Chance at Life. He Built a Website to Make It Count.
Scott Wilson received a life-saving liver transplant in January 2025. Now he's using his story to drive organ donation awareness across Canada — and his website is where it all lives.
How to Generate a WordPress Theme with TelexÂ
A step-by-step guide to building a WordPress theme with Telex using natural language prompts.
WordPress Studio: New Debugging Tools for Local Development
Tracking down bugs in WordPress development often feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. Especially when you’re relying on var_dump() calls and manually scanning error logs. WordPress Studio has two new debugging capabilities that make this process faster and more intuitive: Xdebug support and debug log access. Step-through …
Monikka Spruyt Left Corporate to Help People Reconnect With Themselves. Her New Website Scales That Mission.
Discover how Monikka Spruyt used the WordPress.com Website Design Service to build a new site for her business.
WordPress.com Changelog: AI Assistant Opt-in on All Current Paid Plans and A New Way to Build Sites from Your Terminal
More AI for more people, a new way to build with WordPress in the terminal, and a theme that turns blogging into a social feed.
Go From Idea to Live Ecommerce Store in One Hour
Learn how to set up, design, and launch your own online store with WooCommerce on WordPress.com in our new free, self-paced course.
A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com
At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, on a site that’s entirely yours. If you’ve been thinking about starting your …
Your WordPress Expert in the Terminal: Try the Studio Code Beta
Studio Code is a CLI coding agent for WordPress that builds sites from descriptions, manages local environments, and validates content. Now in beta.
WordPress.com Changelog: Try the WordPress 7.0 Beta and a One-Click Solution for Plugin Errors
Test the WordPress 7.0 beta on WordPress.com, upgraded the block editor and fix fatal plugin errors in just one click.
Spry Fox Has Been Making Games for 15 Years. Their Blog Is Still One of Their Best Growth Tools.
Spry Fox has grown its audience for 15 years with a blog, newsletter, and community. Here’s why their WordPress.com site still matters.
How to Build an Endless Stream of Content Ideas with WordPress and Claude
Connect Claude to your WordPress.com site and use your own data to find content gaps, prioritize topics, generate outlines, and publish posts without switching tools.
How HealthPress.io Used WordPress.com to Power a Growing European Lifestyle Health Movement
How HealthPress.io uses WordPress.com and Automattic for Agencies to power a European lifestyle medicine community of clinics, courses, and 600+ students.
Murphy Levesque Co-Founded an Animal Rescue at 11. Her WordPress.com Site Helped Save Over 100 Animals.
Murphy Levesque co-founded Hidden Gem Animal Rescue at 11. Here's how a WordPress.com site helped her rescue over 100 animals.
What We Learned (and Loved) at WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai
WordCamp Asia 2026 brought thousands of WordPress users to Mumbai. Here's what happened — from AI and education to new WordPress.com features and what's next.
How to Choose Headless WordPress Hosting: A 2026 Checklist
A step-by-step checklist for choosing headless WordPress hosting in 2026, covering backend, frontend, and rendering decisions without overcomplicating it.
How Knockers Design Builds Complex Client Work on WordPress.com
Find out how Knockers Design builds sophisticated client websites with WordPress.com.
WordPress.com Changelog: A New Telegram Bot and Complimentary Newsletter Subscriptions
Chat with your WordPress.com site on Telegram and easily manage complimentary paid newsletter access for your subscribers.
The Top 10 Creative WordPress Themes with Real Personality
Your website is your corner of the internet. It should be as unique as you are. Here are 10 creative WordPress themes with real personality, tested and reviewed, so you can get straight to building.
Give Friends Free Access with Complimentary Subscriptions
Jetpack Newsletter offers complimentary subscriptions that let you give any subscriber free access to your paid plans, right from your subscriber list.
How WordPress 7.0 Is Building the Foundation for AI-Powered Sites
WordPress 7.0 introduces a shared foundation for AI-powered sites. Here's what the Abilities API, AI Client, and MCP Adapter do and how they fit together.
New in WordPress Studio: Studio CLI on npm & phpMyAdmin Access
Install WordPress Studio via npm and manage your local database with phpMyAdmin — no extra tools required.
Plugins, Global Styles, and More: Now on Every WordPress.com Paid Plan
Every paid WordPress.com plan now includes plugins, Global Styles, font uploads, and custom CSS. Here's what's new, what's already on your account, and what higher-tier plans still offer.
How Consultings Company Became Brazil’s First Automattic Partner by Betting on Owned Digital
Julia and Gianmarco Schiavi founded Consultings Company in Brazil to help businesses build complete digital ecosystems. They're now the first Automattic partners in Latin America, and WordPress.com is in every client contract.
Top WordPress Design Trends for 2026: Interactivity, AI, and the Return to Ownership
WordPress design is about faster, smarter, and more interactive websites, alongside a renewed focus on owning your platform and audience. This guide breaks down the biggest WordPress web design trends shaping 2026.
WordPress.com Changelog: Enabling AI Agents to Work on Your Site and More Control Over Newsletter Sending
Learn about the new features now available to you on WordPress.com, including AI content management, email newsletter defaults, UPI payments in India, and editor updates.
Barbara Kingsley Started TikTok at 77. Now She Has 100,000 Followers and a Website to Match.
Discover how Barbara Kingsley became a TikTok influencer and built her WordPress website on WordPress.com.
Jetpack Social Just Got a Major Upgrade: Create, Customize, Preview, and Share with Confidence
Jetpack 15.6 includes a big update to Jetpack Social, including per-platform customization, AI image generation, and more.
How Encircle Technologies Built a Smarter Agency Stack Around WordPress.com
Encircle Technologies runs client sites and complex projects at scale. Learn why the agency chose WordPress.com to handle performance, reduce plugin overhead, and simplify management.
Your AI agent can now create, edit, and manage content on WordPress.com
Connect AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to your WordPress.com site and let them create, edit, and manage content for you – with full control over every change.
How LUBUS Turned WordPress.com into a Competitive Advantage
Learn how LUBUS moved 80% of client projects to WordPress.com and built a faster, more scalable agency workflow in the process.
Scott Wilson Got a Second Chance at Life. He Built a Website to Make It Count.
Scott Wilson received a life-saving liver transplant in January 2025. Now he's using his story to drive organ donation awareness across Canada — and his website is where it all lives.
How to Generate a WordPress Theme with TelexÂ
A step-by-step guide to building a WordPress theme with Telex using natural language prompts.
WordPress Studio: New Debugging Tools for Local Development
Tracking down bugs in WordPress development often feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. Especially when you’re relying on var_dump() calls and manually scanning error logs. WordPress Studio has two new debugging capabilities that make this process faster and more intuitive: Xdebug support and debug log access. Step-through …
Monikka Spruyt Left Corporate to Help People Reconnect With Themselves. Her New Website Scales That Mission.
Discover how Monikka Spruyt used the WordPress.com Website Design Service to build a new site for her business.
WordPress.com Changelog: AI Assistant Opt-in on All Current Paid Plans and A New Way to Build Sites from Your Terminal
More AI for more people, a new way to build with WordPress in the terminal, and a theme that turns blogging into a social feed.
Go From Idea to Live Ecommerce Store in One Hour
Learn how to set up, design, and launch your own online store with WooCommerce on WordPress.com in our new free, self-paced course.
A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com
At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, on a site that’s entirely yours. If you’ve been thinking about starting your …
Your WordPress Expert in the Terminal: Try the Studio Code Beta
Studio Code is a CLI coding agent for WordPress that builds sites from descriptions, manages local environments, and validates content. Now in beta.
WordPress.com Changelog: Try the WordPress 7.0 Beta and a One-Click Solution for Plugin Errors
Test the WordPress 7.0 beta on WordPress.com, upgraded the block editor and fix fatal plugin errors in just one click.
Spry Fox Has Been Making Games for 15 Years. Their Blog Is Still One of Their Best Growth Tools.
Spry Fox has grown its audience for 15 years with a blog, newsletter, and community. Here’s why their WordPress.com site still matters.
How to Build an Endless Stream of Content Ideas with WordPress and Claude
Connect Claude to your WordPress.com site and use your own data to find content gaps, prioritize topics, generate outlines, and publish posts without switching tools.
How HealthPress.io Used WordPress.com to Power a Growing European Lifestyle Health Movement
How HealthPress.io uses WordPress.com and Automattic for Agencies to power a European lifestyle medicine community of clinics, courses, and 600+ students.
Murphy Levesque Co-Founded an Animal Rescue at 11. Her WordPress.com Site Helped Save Over 100 Animals.
Murphy Levesque co-founded Hidden Gem Animal Rescue at 11. Here's how a WordPress.com site helped her rescue over 100 animals.
What We Learned (and Loved) at WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai
WordCamp Asia 2026 brought thousands of WordPress users to Mumbai. Here's what happened — from AI and education to new WordPress.com features and what's next.
How to Choose Headless WordPress Hosting: A 2026 Checklist
A step-by-step checklist for choosing headless WordPress hosting in 2026, covering backend, frontend, and rendering decisions without overcomplicating it.
How Knockers Design Builds Complex Client Work on WordPress.com
Find out how Knockers Design builds sophisticated client websites with WordPress.com.
WordPress.com Changelog: A New Telegram Bot and Complimentary Newsletter Subscriptions
Chat with your WordPress.com site on Telegram and easily manage complimentary paid newsletter access for your subscribers.
The Top 10 Creative WordPress Themes with Real Personality
Your website is your corner of the internet. It should be as unique as you are. Here are 10 creative WordPress themes with real personality, tested and reviewed, so you can get straight to building.
Give Friends Free Access with Complimentary Subscriptions
Jetpack Newsletter offers complimentary subscriptions that let you give any subscriber free access to your paid plans, right from your subscriber list.
How WordPress 7.0 Is Building the Foundation for AI-Powered Sites
WordPress 7.0 introduces a shared foundation for AI-powered sites. Here's what the Abilities API, AI Client, and MCP Adapter do and how they fit together.
New in WordPress Studio: Studio CLI on npm & phpMyAdmin Access
Install WordPress Studio via npm and manage your local database with phpMyAdmin — no extra tools required.
Plugins, Global Styles, and More: Now on Every WordPress.com Paid Plan
Every paid WordPress.com plan now includes plugins, Global Styles, font uploads, and custom CSS. Here's what's new, what's already on your account, and what higher-tier plans still offer.
How Consultings Company Became Brazil’s First Automattic Partner by Betting on Owned Digital
Julia and Gianmarco Schiavi founded Consultings Company in Brazil to help businesses build complete digital ecosystems. They're now the first Automattic partners in Latin America, and WordPress.com is in every client contract.
Top WordPress Design Trends for 2026: Interactivity, AI, and the Return to Ownership
WordPress design is about faster, smarter, and more interactive websites, alongside a renewed focus on owning your platform and audience. This guide breaks down the biggest WordPress web design trends shaping 2026.
WordPress.com Changelog: Enabling AI Agents to Work on Your Site and More Control Over Newsletter Sending
Learn about the new features now available to you on WordPress.com, including AI content management, email newsletter defaults, UPI payments in India, and editor updates.
Barbara Kingsley Started TikTok at 77. Now She Has 100,000 Followers and a Website to Match.
Discover how Barbara Kingsley became a TikTok influencer and built her WordPress website on WordPress.com.
Jetpack Social Just Got a Major Upgrade: Create, Customize, Preview, and Share with Confidence
Jetpack 15.6 includes a big update to Jetpack Social, including per-platform customization, AI image generation, and more.
How Encircle Technologies Built a Smarter Agency Stack Around WordPress.com
Encircle Technologies runs client sites and complex projects at scale. Learn why the agency chose WordPress.com to handle performance, reduce plugin overhead, and simplify management.
Your AI agent can now create, edit, and manage content on WordPress.com
Connect AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to your WordPress.com site and let them create, edit, and manage content for you – with full control over every change.
How LUBUS Turned WordPress.com into a Competitive Advantage
Learn how LUBUS moved 80% of client projects to WordPress.com and built a faster, more scalable agency workflow in the process.
Scott Wilson Got a Second Chance at Life. He Built a Website to Make It Count.
Scott Wilson received a life-saving liver transplant in January 2025. Now he's using his story to drive organ donation awareness across Canada — and his website is where it all lives.
How to Generate a WordPress Theme with TelexÂ
A step-by-step guide to building a WordPress theme with Telex using natural language prompts.
WordPress Studio: New Debugging Tools for Local Development
Tracking down bugs in WordPress development often feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. Especially when you’re relying on var_dump() calls and manually scanning error logs. WordPress Studio has two new debugging capabilities that make this process faster and more intuitive: Xdebug support and debug log access. Step-through …
Monikka Spruyt Left Corporate to Help People Reconnect With Themselves. Her New Website Scales That Mission.
Discover how Monikka Spruyt used the WordPress.com Website Design Service to build a new site for her business.