WordPress.com Changelog: AI Assistant Choose-in on All Present Paid Plans and A New Strategy to Construct Websites from Your Terminal

April 24 – Would possibly 7, 2026

Welcome again to the WordPress.com changelog! It’s been a large two weeks at WordPress.com HQ: we opened opt-in get right of entry to to the WordPress AI Assistant on all present paid plans, Studio Code introduced in beta as a coding agent constructed particularly for WordPress, and we shipped a brand new theme concerned about short-form social-style running a blog.

AI

The AI sidebar is now on each and every paid plan

Till this week, the WordPress AI Assistant used to be opt-in handiest on Industry and Trade plans. Beginning now, it’s to be had as an opt-in on all present paid plans — Non-public, Top rate, Industry, and Trade. Loose and legacy Blogger plans will wish to improve.

The assistant works along you as you write, design, and replace your website on WordPress.com, providing steerage, edits, and enhancements. It’s now not a separate app or a one-time setup software; it’s ongoing lend a hand that understands your explicit website, constructed into the editor and the Media Library.

Use it to:                             

• Tighten your writing for search engine marketing and readability with out dropping your voice.
• Generate and edit photographs.
• Refine layouts and design alternatives with out manually looking for answers.
• Get site-aware lend a hand when one thing isn’t behaving the way in which you are expecting.

Right here’s easy methods to decide in, plus some guidelines for buying probably the most out of the assistant. 

WordPress Studio

Construct WordPress websites out of your terminal with Studio Code

Calling all builders, developers, and vibe coders: Studio Code is your WordPress skilled within the terminal.

Describe what you wish to have (in herbal language, with a reference URL, or with a folder of pictures), and the AI agent builds the blocks, theme, plugins, and entire WordPress website, in the community.

A couple of issues it does {that a} generic coding agent can’t:

• Forestall debugging “invalid content material” warnings. Studio Code validates each and every block towards the true editor earlier than putting it, so generated markup opens blank.
• Skip the screenshot-and-reprompt cycle. It captures its personal output in a screenshot, spots structure problems, and iterates for you.
• Keep within the terminal to send. Simply say the phrase to sync to a manufacturing or staging website on WordPress.com.
• Level at issues as an alternative of describing them. Run /annotate, click on any part at the web page, and ask for the alternate you wish to have.

Set up the Studio CLI, run studio code, and get started describing. Studio Code is unfastened with limitless credit all the way through the beta.

Subject matters

A brand new theme for short-form running a blog

We offered a brand new short-form running a blog theme that permits you to create your individual small, non-public “micro Twitter” with a gaggle of buddies, circle of relatives, or any neighborhood you select.

It’s constructed for fast posts, replies, and reposts, with a easy Compose go with the flow, profile-style pages, and automated attribution for shared posts.

The massive concept is that social-style posting not has to live to tell the tale any person else’s platform: each and every replace remains to be an actual WordPress.com submit on a website you keep an eye on, replies are stored as feedback, and the entire enjoy remains moveable, exportable, RSS-friendly, and impartial of algorithmic feeds.

Take it for a spin at wordpress.com/social.

Fixes and enhancements

We’ve shipped reliability and varnish updates throughout WordPress.com to stay your website (and the platform it runs on) working easily, together with:

• Appearing the proper period on audio blocks within the Reader as an alternative of all the time studying 0:00 earlier than you press play.
• Routing “Touch us” hyperlinks from inside of make stronger articles immediately to the in-app lend a hand chat, as an alternative of a damaged touchdown web page.
• Making BLIK, a Polish cellular fee machine, a supported fee approach.
• Solving inconsistencies in how expired-domain warnings display up within the dashboard.