April 24 – May 7, 2026 Welcome back to the WordPress.com changelog! It’s been a big two weeks at WordPress.com HQ: we opened opt-in access to the WordPress AI Assistant on all current paid plans, Studio Code launched in beta as a coding agent built specifically for WordPress, and we shipped a new theme focused…
April 12–23, 2026 Welcome back to the WordPress.com changelog! Over the past two weeks, we opened up the WordPress 7.0 beta for Business and Commerce sites, made it easier for you to fix plugin errors, and made our Support Center more easy to navigate. Releases Try WordPress 7.0 before it ships WordPress 7.0 is on…
The best content ideas are already in your website data. Connect your WordPress.com site to Claude to uncover what your audience is searching for—but you haven’t covered yet—and turn those insights into published posts. In this guide, I’ll show you how to extract those insights, turn them into a clear plan, and generate ready-to-publish content….
Bela Grundmann is an IT project manager by day. He modernizes legacy systems for banks and large organizations. But for the past five years, his passion project has been something completely different. Through HealthPress.io, his Automattic partner agency, he has been building the digital infrastructure for a growing European lifestyle medicine community, bringing together experts…
Murphy Levesque is a high school senior in Connecticut. She co-founded Hidden Gem Animal Rescue in 2020, when she was 11 years old. It started with a one-eyed cat named One-Eye at the barn where Murphy took horseback riding lessons. One-Eye was two years old, missing an eye, and on her third litter of kittens. …
Headless WordPress allows you to use an alternative stack on the frontend — but it usually requires hosting for two separate environments instead of one. Most projects need managed WordPress hosting for the backend and dedicated frontend hosting that matches how your app renders. It’s important to understand the tradeoffs of choosing headless WordPress as…
Calvin Ho has been building websites for over a decade. His agency, Knockers Design, is based in Taipei and works with clients across Taiwan and the US, specializing in complex, custom builds. For all of it, his platform of choice is WordPress.com. Creating complex WordPress websites is still in high demand, and today’s WordPress.com supports…
March 28–April 11, 2026 Welcome back to the WordPress.com changelog! We’ve had a packed two weeks of updates, including launching an alpha version of a new Telegram bot, shipping a cleaner way to manage AI agent tool access, expanding Studio Sync access, and adding a way to offer complimentary paid newsletter subscriptions to your subscribers….
Until now, every WordPress plugin that integrated AI had to build its own foundations. The upcoming WordPress 7.0 changes this by introducing a shared infrastructure that supports how AI works across sites. AI tools can now discover what a site can do, access AI services through a consistent layer, and trigger actions across plugins without…
Whatever you’re building on WordPress.com — a blog, a business site, a portfolio, a store — you have everything you need to create exactly what you want. From day one. Plugins are now available on all paid WordPress.com plans, starting with Personal. And that’s just the start. Everything that’s now included From now on, users…