WordPress.com Changelog: A New Telegram Bot and Complimentary Publication 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, delivery a cleaner approach to arrange AI agent software get admission to, increasing Studio Sync get admission to, and including some way to provide complimentary paid publication subscriptions on your subscribers.

AI

Message your WordPress on Telegram

Most of the people don’t run their industry from a desktop. They’re in conferences, at the move, in the midst of a dozen different issues — and when one thing must occur on their web page, opening a browser on a pc and navigating the proper dashboard or web page isn’t all the time imaginable. Excellent concepts get misplaced, fast fixes get postponed, and regimen duties pile up speedy.

The brand new WordPress agent bot for Telegram is constructed for precisely that. Chat together with your WordPress.com web site on Telegram to post posts, take a look at your stats, discover a area, or repair a typo — out of your telephone in seconds. Now in alpha, and boundaries would possibly follow in keeping with your web site’s plan.

We debuted it at WordCamp Asia this week — publishing posts and photographs in regards to the tournament, immediately from our telephones, no browser wanted. Be told extra and take a look at it your self as of late.

MCP controls: tighter format and per-site get admission to

Enabling and disabling MCP gear simply were given extra streamlined. Learn and write gear are displayed on their very own pages, and particular controls are labeled through web site house, like Posts, Pages, and Account.

You’ll be able to additionally now allow MCP get admission to and tooling on a per-site foundation through going to Websites → Your particular web site → Settings → Exterior AI agent get admission to.

Building

Studio Sync now to be had on Private and Top rate plans in WordPress Studio

Studio Sync — which helps you to sync a in the community advanced web site from the WordPress Studio desktop app to and out of your are living WordPress.com websites — is now to be had on all paid plans, together with Private and Top rate.

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

Newsletters

Give subscribers complimentary get admission to on your paid publication

Publication publishers can now grant particular person subscribers complimentary paid-tier get admission to — no bank card required on their finish. Out of your Subscribers display, you’ll be able to assign a particular subscriber complimentary get admission to, make a selection 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 web site stats to enable you to navigate backward to in the past visited pages.
• Solving a subject matter that avoided publication publishers with a unmarried billing period from finishing a subscriber import.
• Solving a crash that would save you pictures from loading within the editor on some websites.