June 5 – 18, 2026

Welcome back to the WordPress.com changelog! These two weeks smoothed out everyday work — sharper image editing and easier-to-scan notifications. And if you connect an AI agent like Claude or ChatGPT to your site, it can now do a lot more, including editing your site’s design and managing plugins.

Editing and media

Crop and resize without the friction

Working with images on your site just got more forgiving. The in-editor crop and resize tools are now available across all WordPress.com sites, so you can frame a photo exactly how you want it without leaving the editor or opening a separate app.

Open a post or page, add an image, and then click the crop button to launch the new experience:

Plugins

Desktop Mode: a new, free way to multitask in WordPress

If you juggle a lot at once — drafting a post while uploading media, tidying pages, clearing comments — Desktop Mode turns your WordPress admin into a workspace that’s reminiscent of your computer desktop.

Open posts, pages, and media as separate windows you can resize and arrange, jump anywhere with a quick command search, and recover anything from a single Recycle Bin that covers posts, pages, media, and comments.

It’s a free, open-source plugin from Automattic, available now. Install it on any paid WordPress.com plan.

AI

Your AI agent can now do more on your WordPress.com site

If you connect an AI agent to WordPress.com, it can now help you with a lot more. On top of managing your content, a connected agent can now also:

• Edit your site’s design: templates, menus, navigation, and styles
• Manage plugins on plugin-enabled sites: search, install, activate, and update
• Handle team access: invite people, change roles, and manage permissions
• Create a site: spin up a new WordPress.com site from a description
• Look up account details: billing and subscriptions

As before, you stay in control. It’s off until you turn it on, every tool is opt-in, and you can disable it for specific sites at any time.

Fixes and improvements

We also shipped a round of polish and reliability updates across WordPress.com, including:

• Fixing an error that caused the Add Mailbox page to fail the first time you opened it, so adding a mailbox to your email no longer needs a refresh.
• Fixing a crash in the post editor after generating a video Clip on a site without specific settings.
• Correcting renewal dates shown in checkout terms to show in your display language.
• Fixed social shares to Threads not showing a link preview card when the post used a custom message without the URL. Posts now include the link card automatically.