New on WordPress.com: tailor your newsletter signup experience and and let the support assistant handle your domain settings.

Learn to build your first WordPress plugin with AI, using Cursor and WordPress Studio, with no terminal or coding experience required.

Feature Clips is a new experimental preview that turns your WordPress.com posts into short vertical videos for Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.

Customize your newsletter signup experience with a personalized welcome message, custom subscription-tier descriptions, and flexible plan options for new subscribers.

Studio Code is now in beta and available on desktop for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It replaces the AI assistant, offering enhanced features for local WordPress development.

Jetpack Search 7.0 brings product filters, cards, and sorting to WooCommerce, helping shoppers find what they want faster on WordPress.com Commerce.

The latest WordPress.com updates enhance image editing, introduce Desktop Mode for multitasking, and expand AI capabilities for design and plugin management, alongside various reliability fixes.

Desktop Mode is a free plugin from Automattic that turns your WordPress admin into a real desktop workspace with windows, drag and drop, AI search, virtual desktops, and hundreds of hooks to extend it.

Your website acts as a critical entry point in the era of AI-driven search. As AI-generated results expand, clarity in your messaging becomes essential. Establish an easily navigable site that communicates who you are, what you offer, and fosters trust. This clarity aids both users and AI systems in understanding your value.

The WordPress Studio desktop app is now available for Linux users, providing a quick, server-free way to develop local WordPress sites.

WordPress.com launched 10 new features during Radical Speed Month, including WordPress Workspace for Mac, the Blueprints Gallery in Studio, Easy Site Editor, Social Feeds in the Reader, and AI-assisted publishing tools. Here’s what each one does.

WordPress.com is now available as a provider on Stripe Projects. Starting June 10, developers can provision a complete site, secure a custom domain name, and activate a plan directly from the CLI — no browser, no dashboard, no context switching.

What I learned at my first WordCamp about community, search, and how some things never change (in a good way).

Tired of manually sending screenshot to your coding agent? Studio Code's /annotate turns click-to-comment feedback into edits, all in one go. Free in beta.

WordPress 7.0 is here, plus a social-friendly Reader, a distraction-free writing mode, AI podcast & video tools, and permalink settings on every paid plan.

WordPress 7.0 "Armstrong" is here, with new AI foundations, visual revisions, and responsive design tools.

If you’ve been blogging for a while, you’ll probably know the WordPress.com Reader – a calm place to catch up on the blogs you follow, without an algorithm deciding what you see. This month, we added a new Social Feeds section to the Reader. Now you can bring in the …

One page. A blinking cursor. The formatting you need and nothing you don't. That's Write, a new, focused writing surface built into WordPress.com. In last year's Creators survey, "simplify the editor" was the single most-requested improvement from the people already publishing on WordPress.com. So we built it.

If you've been to a WordCamp, you know how it goes. The schedule fills up fast, you lose track of who you wanted to meet, and your notes from the best talks never make it anywhere useful. Message @wordcamp_agent_bot on Telegram and not only have a better plan for WCEU 2026, see where agentic WordPress is going.

Posts to Podcast is a new WordPress.com feature that creates AI-generated audio episodes from your existing posts, complete with a draft post and transcript.

A built-in podcast tool, weekly letters to close friends, and a new Mac app for managing your site — see what's new on WordPress.com in the last two weeks.

Discover Blueprints Gallery in WordPress Studio to browse, preview, and launch reusable WordPress setups locally in seconds.

The Essential Plugin attack hit 2,200+ hosted sites. Here's how WordPress.com's security team detected, contained, and cleaned up the threat.

Your new Achievements page brings together badges, milestones, activity streaks, and a few surprises—right in the Reader.

We're launching Jetpack Podcast, a new way to publish, distribute, and grow a podcast from the same site as your blog and newsletter. If you're on WordPress.com, it's already in your dashboard in your Jetpack menu. You can start a podcast for free. We'll help you set up your show, get your podcast onto major podcast apps like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Pocket Casts, and pair it with your newsletter to grow your audience.

Building a website should feel exciting, not overwhelming. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the beta launch of the Easy Site Editor on WordPress.com, a brand new way to create and customize your site through the power of conversation. A friendlier way to edit your site We’ve been listening closely …

One of the best parts of blogging is the ability to share something with the people you care most about. Over the last few weeks, we’ve built a WordPress.com feature to make that easier. It’s geared to the kind of short, casual thing you’d otherwise send in a group chat …

WordPress Workspace is an macOS companion that turns your website into a full productivity suite. Ask the WordPress Agent, dictate, upload images, capture screenshots, and transform text with the voice, history, media, and structure your site already contains.

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.

Learn how to set up, design, and launch your own online store with WooCommerce on WordPress.com in our new free, self-paced course.