March 15–27, 2026

Welcome to the WordPress.com changelog!

We’re always working on making WordPress.com better for you — new tools, fixes, little things you might not notice but will definitely feel. We want to keep you in the loop. Every couple of weeks, we’ll share what’s changed and why it matters for your site or business.

In this edition, we’ll cover how you can now let AI agents create and manage content on your site, how to have more control over how newsletters are sent, and more.

Let’s dive in:

Ask AI to handle the busywork and management on your site

You can now connect AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor to do more on your site — like drafting blog posts, updating image descriptions, organizing tags, or replying to comments.

Instead of clicking through your dashboard, just ask. Get Claude or ChatGPT to work for you by asking things like:

• “I just finished writing this post. Publish it as a draft, categorize it as ‘Travel,’ add relevant tags, and write me a meta description under 160 characters.”
• “Update my About page to show our winter hours and add a notice that we’re closed December 24-25.”
• “Find all images in my media library that are missing alt text and suggest some based on the filename or attachment context.”

And most importantly: you stay in control. New posts default to drafts, deletions are recoverable for 30 days, and every action is logged. You choose exactly what AI can and can’t touch.

These features are now available on all paid WordPress.com plans. Enable them at wordpress.com/me/mcp, and check out the full announcement post for more information and example prompts you can start with today.

Newsletters

Set your newsletter send default once, not with every post

You can now set a site-wide default for whether new posts are sent to your email subscribers. 

Head to Jetpack → Newsletter or Jetpack –> Settings –> Newsletter and toggle “Email new posts to subscribers by default” on or off. When it’s on, the editor defaults to sending new posts as email. Flip it on per post if you need to make exceptions.

Previously, there was no way to set this globally — you had to change the send setting manually every time you wrote a post.

As a reminder, Newsletter is a feature included on all WordPress.com sites, enabling you to send your new posts via email to subscribers without needing to use a separate tool.

Payments

WordPress.com now accepts UPI for customers in India

If you’re based in India, you can now pay for WordPress.com plans and products using UPI. No credit card needed — just pay directly from your bank account using any UPI app you already use, like Google Pay, PhonePe, or Paytm.

Editor

Editor bringing small-but-powerful updates

The editor was updated across all WordPress.com sites. Notable updates:

• You can now manage your site logo and icon from a dedicated screen in the Design panel.

• You can preview button states — like hover, focus, and active — under Appearance → Editor → Styles → Blocks → Buttons.

• You’ll now see a ⌘K (on Mac) or Ctrl+K (on Windows/Linux) button in the WordPress admin bar. Clicking it launches the Command Palette, which offers you a way to quickly navigate and manage your site.

Themes

Our theme showcase gets a new look

Check out the newly designed wordpress.com/themes page! It now features a cleaner layout and a more modern feel — making it easier to browse the thousands of free and premium themes we have available for you.

Fixes and improvements

We also shipped a handful of bug fixes and quality improvements across WordPress.com, including: 

• Fixing featured images in the Reader being heavily cropped when viewing a full post — images now display at their natural proportions instead of being squeezed and resized.
• Fixing videos in Reader posts that were showing as an unplayable bar — they now display with playback controls and at the correct dimensions.
• Pressing the right and left arrow keys on your keyboard now allows you to navigate between posts in the Reader, alongside the existing J and K keyboard shortcuts.
• Fixing the subscriber count chart, which was making small fluctuations in subscriber numbers look much more dramatic than they are. It’s now easier to spot and understand trends at a glance.
• Fixing several bugs where domain purchases weren’t showing up correctly in your cart — including an issue where multi-year registration prices showed the wrong total before checkout.