May 22–June 4, 2026

Welcome back to the WordPress.com changelog!

We have lots to update you on, including information about a new core version running on every WordPress.com site, how you can repurpose your written blog content in audio and visual forms, and so much more.

Core

WordPress 7.0 is here

WordPress 7.0 (“Armstrong”) shipped on May 20, and your WordPress.com site has been automatically updated.

The pieces you’ll experience right away:

• See what changed before you hit publish: Your post revisions now have visual markers to help you understand changes in a more intuitive way.
• Design your mobile menu like you design the rest of your site: Navigation overlays give the mobile experience its own dedicated editing canvas.
• Show different things on phone, tablet, and desktop: Responsive block visibility lets you pick which blocks appear on which device without writing CSS.
• More design pieces out of the box: New Breadcrumbs and Icon blocks, plus finer block-level controls for when you want a specific change.
• One place to manage your fonts: To use across every theme on your site.

On WordPress.com, this release ships with our AI features already in place to assist you in the editor, with your favorite AI agent, and beyond, plus real-time collaboration on select plans, so multiple people can write in the same post at once.

Reader

One place to read Bluesky, Mastodon, and blogs

Keeping up with your audience shouldn’t mean tab-hopping between different apps. Connect your Bluesky, Mastodon, or Fediverse accounts to the WordPress.com Reader and you can read those timelines next to the WordPress.com blogs you already follow — and like, repost, quote, and reply — in the Social Feeds section.

You can write to those followers from the same place. Start with a short social post, and if you need more room, expand it into a full blog post without starting over.

One spot to read what matters, react to it, and publish your own thoughts.

Writing

When you’re in the flow, the editor gets out of your way

Sometimes you just want to write. Not pick a block, not configure a layout, not browse a sidebar — just write. Write is exactly that: one page, a blinking cursor, simple formatting, and nothing else.

It’s in beta on every WordPress.com plan, including Free. Open Write, pick your site, and start typing. What you write is a real WordPress post — it lives alongside everything else, works with your theme, and you can open it in the full block editor whenever you need the rest of the toolkit.

Reach the people who’d rather listen than read

Whether your audience is commuting, multitasking, or simply prefers to learn through audio, your content can meet them there.

Posts to Podcast turns a post you’ve already written into a two-host conversation episode, saves it to your Media Library, and queues a draft post with the audio and transcript so you can publish in a couple of clicks. One post, two ways for people to find you.

Find it in your dashboard under Media → Create AI Podcast. Available on every WordPress.com site.

P.S. If you want to host the podcast on WordPress.com instead, you can also set up podcasting with Jetpack Podcast and publish episodes from your site.

Spin a post into a short social-ready video (experimental preview)

Short-form video (like on Instagram and TikTok) is popular and engaging, but turning a blog post into one has meant needing a second tool, a video editor, or someone you pay.

Feature Clips generates a short, vertical video based on your post content directly from the editor sidebar. Pick a suggestion drawn from your post, or write your own prompt to steer the look.

Your clip lands in your Media Library, ready to share to Instagram via Jetpack Social or download as an MP4 for TikTok and YouTube Shorts. It generates short instrumental clips meant to tease your content.

Available now on WordPress.com plans that support video uploads — Premium and up. You get ten generations per site per day, with a thumbs up / thumbs down feedback tool on each clip so you can easily send your thoughts back to our team.

Settings and plans

Shape your URLs (and four more settings) on every paid plan

The structure of your URLs matters — for SEO, for sharing, for how users understand your site at a glance. That setting (called Permalinks) used to be locked behind higher plans. Now, every paid plugin-enabled WordPress.com plan (Personal, Premium, Business, and Commerce) can change permalink structure directly.

Fixes and improvements

We also shipped some reliability and polish updates across the WordPress.com experience:

• The Reader sidebar now shows your site’s custom domain instead of its free subdomain.
• Receipt amount, type, and date now show inline on your Billing History page at narrower widths.