WordPress.com Changelog: A New Telegram Bot and Complimentary E-newsletter Subscriptions

March 28–April 11, 2026

Welcome again to the WordPress.com changelog! 

We’ve had a packed two weeks of updates, together with launching an alpha model of a brand new Telegram bot, transport a cleaner option to organize AI agent device get right of entry to, increasing Studio Sync get right of entry to, and including some way to supply complimentary paid e-newsletter subscriptions for your subscribers.

AI

Message your WordPress on Telegram

Most of the people don’t run their trade from a desktop. They’re in conferences, at the pass, in the midst of a dozen different issues — and when one thing must occur on their site, opening a browser on a pc and navigating the right kind dashboard or web page isn’t at all times imaginable. Just right concepts get misplaced, fast fixes get postponed, and regimen duties pile up rapid.

The brand new WordPress agent bot for Telegram is constructed for precisely that. Chat along with your WordPress.com website on Telegram to submit posts, test your stats, discover a area, or repair a typo — out of your telephone in seconds. Now in alpha, and boundaries would possibly follow in line with your website’s plan.

We debuted it at WordCamp Asia this week — publishing posts and pictures in regards to the tournament, immediately from our telephones, no browser wanted. Be informed extra and take a look at it your self these days.

MCP controls: tighter format and per-site get right of entry to

Enabling and disabling MCP equipment simply were given extra streamlined. Learn and write equipment are displayed on their very own pages, and explicit controls are categorised through website house, like Posts, Pages, and Account.

You’ll additionally now permit MCP get right of entry to and tooling on a per-site foundation through going to Websites → Your explicit website → Settings → Exterior AI agent get right of entry to.

Building

Studio Sync now to be had on Non-public and Top rate plans in WordPress Studio

Studio Sync — which helps you to sync a in the community advanced website from the WordPress Studio desktop app to and out of your reside WordPress.com websites — is now to be had on all paid plans, together with Non-public and Top rate.

Be informed extra about creating your WordPress.com websites in the community with Studio in our documentation.

Newsletters

Give subscribers complimentary get right of entry to for your paid e-newsletter

E-newsletter publishers can now grant particular person subscribers complimentary paid-tier get right of entry to — no bank card required on their finish. Out of your Subscribers display screen, you’ll be able to assign a particular subscriber complimentary get right of entry to, select which paid plan stage they get, and take away it at any time.

Fixes and enhancements

We additionally shipped further reliability and varnish updates throughout WordPress.com this week, together with:

• Including a breadcrumb path to element pages to your website stats to allow you to navigate backward to prior to now visited pages.
• Solving a subject that averted e-newsletter publishers with a unmarried billing period from finishing a subscriber import.
• Solving a crash that would save you photographs from loading within the editor on some websites.