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October 2026

  1. WordPress.com Changelog: Manage Your Site and Build a Store with AI
  2. When Technology Outruns Its Institutions: Neal Stephenson on AI, Truth, and Control
  3. 10 Black Friday Ideas for Small Businesses That Go Beyond Discounts
  4. How Nonprofit Revive & Restore Found a Better Home on WordPress.com
  5. Four Website Chores Your AI Agent Can Help With
  6. Stop Paying Extra to Keep Your Site Safe
  7. Your WordPress.com Site is Protected Against the Recent Critical PHP Vulnerabilities
  8. How to Build a Portfolio Website That Gets You Hired
  9. WordPress.com Changelog: Premium Themes on Paid Plans and an Upgraded Newsletter Hub
  10. Build Faster, Edit Your Way: What’s New with WordPress Agent
  11. How Roge Blasco Brought 6,500 Travel Stories Back Online
  12. WordPress.com Education: How Two Design Students Built a Nonprofit’s Website
  13. Domain Names Explained: A Free Video Course
  14. Black Friday Checklist: 10 Essential Tests to Run Before Your Customers Arrive
  15. Connect Your AI to WordPress.com: 7 Ways To Get More Done
  16. Keep Up With Everything You Follow in the Reader
  17. WordPress.com Changelog: Your Growing AI Toolbox
  18. How Much Does a Website Really Cost? Year One vs. Year Two
  19. Desktop Mode Is Now OpenStation: Your Whole WordPress Site in One Tab

September 2026

  1. What Your Holiday Customers Are Already Telling You
  2. What Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Actually Means
  3. Meet Purple: A Head Start for Your Ecommerce Store
  4. How to Monetize a Blog Without Turning It Into a Job
  5. WordPress.com Changelog: Custom AI Themes and A New Video Player
  6. Twenty-Five Years Later, We Remember
  7. 8 Ways to Grow Website Traffic When Google Sends Less of It

August 2026

  1. WordPress.com Changelog: A New Hosting Dashboard, a ChatGPT Plugin, and WordPress 7.1
  2. WordCamp US 2026 Recap: The Artist and the Algorithm
  3. Build with Your Expert WordPress Agent: WordPress Studio’s New Desktop Experience is in Beta
  4. Your WordPress.com Site Now Works from Inside ChatGPT
  5. Every Site, One Click Away in the Hosting Dashboard
  6. When WordPress.com Support Knows It’s Time for a Human
  7. Give Your WordPress.com Site a Memory with Guidelines
  8. The WordPress.com Student Plan Is Here: Give Your Students a Website They Can Keep
  9. WordPress.com Changelog: Brand Memory and Better Renewal Warnings
  10. What to See at WordCamp US 2026: Speakers, Demos, and More

July 2026

  1. WordPress.com Changelog: New Blocks and Better Async Notes
  2. WordCamp US 2026: 7 Reasons to Connect with Your WordPress Community
  3. Discover Your Local WordPress Community
  4. Master SEO & AIO: Get Your Site Found in Search and AI Answers
  5. WordPress.com Changelog: A Resizable Editor and Sharper Image Cropping
  6. WordPress Studio Just Got Faster, the CLI is Now Dependency-Free, and Sonnet 5 is Supported
  7. Agentic Commerce Is Here: What Does It Mean for Your Store?
  8. How to Choose a Web Host: 7 Steps to Make the Right Decision
  9. WordPress.com Changelog: Shape Your Newsletter Signup and Get Domain Help in Chat
  10. How to build a WordPress plugin with AI (Cursor + WordPress Studio)

June 2026

  1. Introducing Feature Clips: Turn Posts Into Social-ready Video
  2. Customize Your Newsletter Subscription Experience
  3. Your WordPress Site, Built by Conversation: Studio Code Now on Desktop
  4. Jetpack Search 7.0: Find Products Faster in WooCommerce
  5. WordPress.com Changelog: Sharper Image Editing and a New Way to Multitask
  6. Meet Desktop Mode: A New Workspace for WordPress Admin
  7. 4 Ways to Make Your Website More Discoverable by AI Search
  8. Develop Locally on Linux with WordPress Studio
  9. 10 Brand-New WordPress.com Features From Radical Speed Month
  10. WordPress.com Is Now Available in Stripe Projects
  11. WordCamp Europe 2026: Worth the Wait
  12. Click, Comment, Done: A Better Client Feedback Loop with Studio Code
  13. WordPress.com Changelog: WordPress 7.0 and Ways to Repurpose Your Written Content
  14. WordPress 7.0 Has Arrived: Here’s Everything You Need to Know

May 2026

  1. Now in the Reader: Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse
  2. Introducing Write: A New Way to Post, Built for Writers
  3. Meet WordCamp Agent: A Preview of the WordPress Memory Layer
  4. Turn Your Blog Posts Into Podcast Episodes
  5. WordPress.com Changelog: Launch a Podcast and Update Your Friends
  6. Blueprints Gallery Is Now Available in WordPress Studio
  7. Inside WordPress.com’s Security Response to the Essential Plugin Attack
  8. Achievement Unlocked: Your WordPress.com Milestones Now Have a Home
  9. Your Podcast Belongs With Your Blog and Newsletter
  10. Easy Site Editor – Now in Beta
  11. Introducing Lately, Now in Beta
  12. Introducing WordPress Workspace for Mac
  13. WordPress.com Changelog: AI Assistant Opt-in on All Current Paid Plans and A New Way to Build Sites from Your Terminal
  14. Go From Idea to Live Ecommerce Store in One Hour

April 2026

  1. A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com
  2. Your WordPress Expert in the Terminal: Try the Studio Code Beta
  3. WordPress.com Changelog: Try the WordPress 7.0 Beta and a One-Click Solution for Plugin Errors
  4. Spry Fox Has Been Making Games for 15 Years. Their Blog Is Still One of Their Best Growth Tools.
  5. How to Build an Endless Stream of Content Ideas with WordPress and Claude
  6. How HealthPress.io Used WordPress.com to Power a Growing European Lifestyle Health Movement
  7. Murphy Levesque Co-Founded an Animal Rescue at 11. Her WordPress.com Site Helped Save Over 100 Animals.
  8. What We Learned (and Loved) at WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai
  9. How to Choose Headless WordPress Hosting: A 2026 Checklist
  10. How Knockers Design Builds Complex Client Work on WordPress.com
  11. WordPress.com Changelog: A New Telegram Bot and Complimentary Newsletter Subscriptions
  12. The Top 10 Creative WordPress Themes with Real Personality
  13. Give Friends Free Access with Complimentary Subscriptions
  14. How WordPress 7.0 Is Building the Foundation for AI-Powered Sites
  15. New in WordPress Studio: Studio CLI on npm & phpMyAdmin Access
  16. Plugins, Global Styles, and More: Now on Every WordPress.com Paid Plan

March 2026

  1. How Consultings Company Became Brazil’s First Automattic Partner by Betting on Owned Digital
  2. Top WordPress Design Trends for 2026: Interactivity, AI, and the Return to Ownership
  3. WordPress.com Changelog: Enabling AI Agents to Work on Your Site and More Control Over Newsletter Sending
  4. Barbara Kingsley Started TikTok at 77. Now She Has 100,000 Followers and a Website to Match.
  5. Jetpack Social Just Got a Major Upgrade: Create, Customize, Preview, and Share with Confidence
  6. How Encircle Technologies Built a Smarter Agency Stack Around WordPress.com
  7. Your AI agent can now create, edit, and manage content on WordPress.com
  8. How LUBUS Turned WordPress.com into a Competitive Advantage
  9. Scott Wilson Got a Second Chance at Life. He Built a Website to Make It Count.
  10. How to Generate a WordPress Theme with Telex
  11. WordPress Studio: New Debugging Tools for Local Development
  12. Monikka Spruyt Left Corporate to Help People Reconnect With Themselves. Her New Website Scales That Mission.
  13. Is WordPress Secure? (And How to Prevent Security Issues)
  14. Jäger Stockill Is One of Canada’s Top Young Racers. His Dad Built the Website to Show the World.

February 2026

  1. 12 WordPress SEO Plugins to Try in 2026 (Manually Tested)
  2. 14 Unique Ways WordPress.com Makes Site Ownership Easier
  3. Telex Updates: From Napkin Sketch to WordPress Block (and More)
  4. Lily Burton Is Pivoting from PhD to Science Journalism. Her Portfolio Took an Hour to Build — and Already Landed Her Work.
  5. Introducing the WordPress AI Assistant — Now Built Into WordPress.com
  6. 9 Steps to Prepare Your WordPress Site for AI Search Engines
  7. Build WordPress Sites with AI: New Plugin and Skills for Claude Cowork
  8. How to Build WordPress Plugins with AI: Claude Code + WordPress Studio Setup Guide
  9. WordPress Hosting vs Web Hosting: Explained for Beginners
  10. Monetize Your Website with Our New Free Course
  11. 12 Essential WordPress Plugins for 2026 (Data-Backed Picks)
  12. Andrew Adetitun Successfully Funded His Book on African History. His Website Was the Launchpad.
  13. It’s official: WordPress.com has a Claude Connector
  14. Great Writing Deserves a Spotlight: Freshly Pressed Is Back
  15. 15 Unique and Fun WordPress Websites to Inspire You in 2026
  16. 21 Types of WordPress Sites You Can Build with AI

January 2026

  1. Tammy Silva Built a Career Helping Others Build Theirs. Her New Website Scales That Mission.
  2. 11 Steps to Build a Strong Online Presence for Your New Business: Lessons from Founders
  3. WordPress Studio 1.7.0: Meet the New Studio CLI
  4. 12 Top WordPress Themes People Actually Use in 2026 (Tested & Ranked)
  5. Connect AI Agents to WordPress.com with OAuth 2.1 and MCP
  6. Introducing the Enhanced Code Block: Syntax Highlighting and More
  7. What is Managed Hosting? A Practical Guide
  8. How to Choose WordPress Hosting: A Guide for Any Skill Level
  9. How to Build an Interactive WordPress Theme Demo with Playground Blueprints

December 2025

  1. Is WordPress Free? Yes and No — Here’s Why
  2. What Is WordPress Hosting? A Simple Breakdown
  3. How to Build Faster, Safer Local WordPress Dev Workflows for Your Agency
  4. When Typepad Shut Down, We Helped 3,684 Blogs Find a New Home
  5. How to Manage Multiple Client Sites with WordPress Studio
  6. Grow Your Website’s Audience with Our New Free Course
  7. Why Start a Blog in 2026? 9 Solid Reasons From a Blogger
  8. 10 Best WordPress Holiday Plugins for a Little Holiday Cheer
  9. AI Website Building: Separating Hype from Reality
  10. State of the Word 2025 Recap: The Top Highlights
  11. WordPress 6.9: What’s New for Developers
  12. WordPress 6.9: What’s New for Bloggers, Creators, and Site Owners
  13. How to Build a WordPress Website With AI: Step-by-Step Tutorial

November 2025

  1. The Ultimate WordPress Migration Checklist for Beginners
  2. Managed vs. Shared WordPress Hosting: Which is Best for You?
  3. 20 Years of WordPress.com: Show Us What You’ve Built
  4. How Does Open Source Make WordPress Different (and Better)?
  5. 8 Games You Can Play in WordPress Right Now
  6. 11 Common WordPress Myths vs. Reality
  7. Black Friday 2025: Get Your Website Built for You — Free with WordPress.com Business
  8. 12 Cool AI-Powered WordPress Blocks Made with Telex

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