WordPress.com Changelog: Enabling AI Brokers to Paintings on Your Website and Extra Keep watch over Over Publication Sending

March 15–27, 2026

Welcome to the WordPress.com changelog!

We’re all the time running on making WordPress.com higher for you — new gear, fixes, little issues it’s possible you’ll now not realize yet will undoubtedly really feel. We wish to stay you within the loop. Each and every couple of weeks, we’ll proportion what’s modified and why it issues to your website or industry.

On this version, we’ll duvet how you’ll now let AI brokers create and arrange content material for your website, how one can have extra regulate over how newsletters are despatched, and extra.

Let’s dive in:

AI

Ask AI to care for the busywork and control for your website

You’ll be able to now attach AI gear like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor to do extra for your website — 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 be just right for you by way of asking such things as:

• “I simply completed penning this submit. Submit it as a draft, categorize it as ‘Commute,’ upload related tags, and write me a meta description underneath 160 characters.”
• “Replace my About web page to turn our iciness hours and upload a realize that we’re closed December 24-25.”
• “In finding all pictures in my media library which are lacking alt textual content and recommend some in accordance with the filename or attachment context.”

And most significantly: you keep in regulate. New posts default to drafts, deletions are recoverable for 30 days, and each 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 try the total announcement submit for more info and instance activates you’ll get started with lately.

Newsletters

Set your publication ship default as soon as, now not with each submit

You’ll be able to now set a site-wide default for whether or not new posts are despatched in your e mail subscribers. 

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

In the past, there was once no technique to set this globally — you needed to exchange the ship atmosphere manually each time you wrote a submit.

As a reminder, Publication is a function integrated on all WordPress.com websites, enabling you to ship your new posts by the use of e mail to subscribers without having to make use of a separate device.

Bills

WordPress.com now accepts UPI for patrons in India

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

Editor

Editor bringing small-but-powerful updates

The editor was once up to date throughout all WordPress.com websites. Notable updates:

• You’ll be able to now arrange your website brand and icon from a devoted display screen within the Design panel.

• You’ll be able to preview button states — like hover, center of attention, and energetic — 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 will give you a technique to temporarily navigate and arrange your website.

Topics

Our theme show off will get a brand new glance

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

Fixes and enhancements

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

• Solving featured pictures within the Reader being closely cropped when viewing a complete submit — pictures now show at their herbal proportions as an alternative 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 proper dimensions.
• Urgent the suitable and left arrow keys for your keyboard now permits you to navigate between posts within the Reader, along the prevailing J and Ok keyboard shortcuts.
• Solving the subscriber depend chart, which was once making small fluctuations in subscriber numbers glance a lot more dramatic than they’re. It’s now more uncomplicated to identify and perceive traits at a look.
• Solving a number of insects the place area purchases weren’t appearing up as it should be on your cart — together with a subject the place multi-year registration costs confirmed the incorrect overall earlier than checkout.