WordPress.com Changelog: Form Your E-newsletter Signup and Get Area Assist in Chat

June 19 – July 2, 2026

Welcome again to the WordPress.com changelog! Right through the remaining two weeks, we curious about supplying you with extra keep an eye on: a subscription signup you’ll be able to tailor in your readers, a fortify assistant that may now type out your area settings proper within the chat, and extra.

Create and submit

Customise your e-newsletter signup

Your subscription shape not needs to be one-size-fits-all. You’ll now upload a welcome message to the signup field to inform readers why they must sign up for, write descriptions on your unfastened and paid tiers so other folks know what they’re getting, and optionally conceal the unfastened tier to indicate readers immediately in your paid plans.

To be had now for any e-newsletter, on any plan — together with unfastened. Glance below E-newsletter Settings to set it up.

For shops

Quicker product discovery to your WooCommerce retailer

Seek on WordPress.com Trade shops were given a large improve. 

Customers can now clear out merchandise through length, colour or different product choices, plus worth vary, score, availability, class, tag, and emblem — and spot wealthy product playing cards with pictures, costs, scores, and evaluate counts proper within the effects. They are able to type through worth or score and spot lively clear out chips as they refine. 

It’s all incorporated on our Trade plan, with not anything further to put in or attach.

Toughen

The fortify assistant can now take care of area duties for you

Achieve out to WordPress.com fortify, and the assistant can now care for not unusual area jobs proper within the chat — no back-and-forth, no handoff. 

Ask it to arrange electronic mail on your area (thru products and services like Google Workspace or iCloud), replace your area information, take a look at whether or not a website is to be had, or set your number one area, and it makes the replace at the spot. The assistant confirms the adjustments with you ahead of executing, so not anything occurs with out your approval.

When logged in, click on the query mark icon within the most sensible navigation bar, click on “Get assist,” and ask away.

Fixes and enhancements

We additionally shipped a handful of smaller enhancements and fixes to easy out your day by day:

• Fastened lacking pictures at the Reader feed, so the posts you apply display up with their footage once more.
• Added a Write button to the highest of your Reader, so when a put up sparks an concept, you’re one click on from writing within the complete editor.
• Added a settings tab in your Reader profile, so you’ll be able to keep an eye on whether or not or no longer your achievements are public.
• Fastened the password reset drift to turn a transparent message when it fails, as a substitute of a lifeless finish.
• Fastened the Assist Middle so it quite a bit immediately, despite the fact that you’re nonetheless partway thru putting in place your account. 
• Up to date plan-change confirmations, so downgrading to every other annual plan presentations you precisely what modified.