WordPress.com Changelog: Enabling AI Brokers to Paintings on Your Web site and Extra Keep an eye on Over E-newsletter Sending

March 15–27, 2026

Welcome to the WordPress.com changelog!

We’re at all times running on making WordPress.com higher for you — new equipment, fixes, little issues it’s possible you’ll no longer understand yet will unquestionably really feel. We need to stay you within the loop. Each and every couple of weeks, we’ll percentage what’s modified and why it issues in your web site or trade.

On this version, we’ll duvet how you’ll now let AI brokers create and set up content material in your web site, methods to have extra keep watch over over how newsletters are despatched, and extra.

Let’s dive in:

AI

Ask AI to take care of the busywork and control in your web site

You’ll now attach AI equipment like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor to do extra in your web site — like drafting weblog posts, updating symbol descriptions, organizing tags, or replying to feedback.

As a substitute of clicking via your dashboard, simply ask. Get Claude or ChatGPT to give you the results you want by means of asking such things as:

• “I simply completed penning this submit. Submit it as a draft, categorize it as ‘Trip,’ upload related tags, and write me a meta description underneath 160 characters.”
• “Replace my About web page to turn our wintry weather hours and upload a understand that we’re closed December 24-25.”
• “To find all photographs in my media library which might be lacking alt textual content and recommend some in response to the filename or attachment context.”

And most significantly: you keep in keep watch over. New posts default to drafts, deletions are recoverable for 30 days, and each and every motion is logged. You select precisely what AI can and will’t contact.

Those options at the moment are to be had on all paid WordPress.com plans. Allow them at wordpress.com/me/mcp, and take a look at the total announcement submit for more info and instance activates you’ll get started with lately.

Newsletters

Set your e-newsletter ship default as soon as, no longer with each and every submit

You’ll now set a site-wide default for whether or not new posts are despatched for your electronic mail subscribers. 

Head to Jetpack → E-newsletter or Jetpack –> Settings –> E-newsletter and toggle “E-mail new posts to subscribers by means of default” on or off. When it’s on, the editor defaults to sending new posts as electronic mail. Turn it on in step with submit if you want to make exceptions.

Up to now, there used to be no technique to set this globally — you needed to alternate the ship atmosphere manually each and every time you wrote a submit.

As a reminder, E-newsletter is a characteristic integrated on all WordPress.com websites, enabling you to ship your new posts by the use of electronic mail to subscribers while not having to make use of a separate software.

Bills

WordPress.com now accepts UPI for purchasers in India

When you’re based totally in India, you’ll now pay for WordPress.com plans and merchandise the usage of UPI. No bank card wanted — simply pay without delay out of your checking account the usage of any UPI app you already use, like Google Pay, PhonePe, or Paytm.

Editor

Editor bringing small-but-powerful updates

The editor used to be up to date throughout all WordPress.com websites. Notable updates:

• You’ll now set up your web site brand and icon from a devoted display screen within the Design panel.

• You’ll preview button states — like hover, focal point, and lively — underneath Look → Editor → Types → Blocks → Buttons.

• You’ll now see a ⌘Ok (on Mac) or Ctrl+Ok (on Home windows/Linux) button within the WordPress admin bar. Clicking it launches the Command Palette, which provides you with a technique to temporarily navigate and set up your web site.

Issues

Our theme exhibit will get a brand new glance

Take a look at the newly designed wordpress.com/issues web page! It now includes a cleaner format and a extra trendy really feel — making it more straightforward to browse the hundreds of unfastened and top class issues we’ve to be had for you.

Fixes and enhancements

We additionally shipped a handful of malicious program fixes and high quality enhancements throughout WordPress.com, together with: 

• Solving featured photographs within the Reader being closely cropped when viewing a complete submit — photographs now show at their herbal proportions as a substitute of being squeezed and resized.
• Solving movies in Reader posts that have been appearing as an unplayable bar — they now show with playback controls and at the right kind dimensions.
• Urgent the appropriate and left arrow keys in your keyboard now lets you navigate between posts within the Reader, along the prevailing J and Ok keyboard shortcuts.
• Solving the subscriber rely chart, which used to be making small fluctuations in subscriber numbers glance a lot more dramatic than they’re. It’s now more straightforward to identify and perceive traits at a look.
• Solving a number of insects the place area purchases weren’t appearing up accurately on your cart — together with a subject matter the place multi-year registration costs confirmed the improper overall prior to checkout.