Is your website ready for the Black Friday rush in theory *and* practice? Run through these 10 practical checks to catch confusing offers, discount issues, and mobile friction before your customers do. Get the full checklist here: wordpress.com/blog/2026/10...
Black Friday traffic sounds great... unless your site isn't ready for it. Slow load times, checkout issues, inventory errors — all the stuff you'd rather not troubleshoot while customers are trying to buy. 🧵
How much will your website cost once the introductory offer ends? We compared major website platforms to break down first-year costs, renewal prices, and extras worth budgeting for.
Want to build a personal or professional website…for free? Join Wes Theron as he builds one on WordPress.com, end to end.👇
How to Create a Free Website
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Your customers are asking AI for answers. Does your content show up? AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) makes your content easier for AI tools to understand, cite, and recommend. It builds on what already makes content great: clear answers, useful information, and good writing.
Your blog doesn't need to become a business to start paying for itself. With @wordpress.org, it's easy to add a virtual tip jar, use affiliate links for things you already love, or add a payment button to sell that one thing your readers keep asking for.
Your online store just got a whole new look! 🛍️ Our Head of YouTube, @jamiemarsland.bsky.social, just dropped a demo on how to redesign a @woocommerce.com store using nothing but prompts to Claude—no code required. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfND...
I Redesigned My WooCommerce Store by Talking to Claude
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AI can build a website in minutes, but it still can't decide what ships. That's the takeaway from Automattic for Agencies' latest webinar on AI and @wordpress.org, led by AI Product Lead @ronnieburt.com.
Confused about how to grow website traffic now that AI is reshaping search? Welcome to the club. With audiences spread across multiple platforms, organic traffic is less straightforward. But it isn't dead; it's just coming from different places. We made a guide to finding them.
Sometimes the right help is a real person. About 1 in 4 support conversations end with a human helper, and roughly half the time, the WordPress.com Support Assistant suggests it. Here's how it decides. 🧵
Managing multiple websites used to mean reopening the same menus every time, but not anymore! Our new Hosting Dashboard keeps your navigation in place as you move between sites, so you can actually stay in the flow. More details below. 🛠️
Four days in Phoenix, 1,100-plus attendees, and one recurring theme: art and technology, converging everywhere you looked. WordCamp US is a wrap, and we’re looking back with an in-depth recap.
Managing multiple WordPress.com sites just got easier! The updated Hosting Dashboard now has persistent navigation that moves with you as you switch between sites. Whether you manage one site or 200, your workflow stays the same.
You know your digital brand, and now your @wordpress.org website does too. Meet Guidelines, which reads your site's history and turns your rules into a persistent memory to build and write from. Set it once, use it forever. More details below!
We’ve got a new changelog for y’all! 🛠️ This round: clearer warnings before your plan expires, support for FLAC audio uploads, sharper Reader images, better payment troubleshooting, and more. Plus, a first look at site Guidelines. See what’s new: wp.me/pf2B5-myC
The WordPress.com Hosting Dashboard has new navigation. There's now a persistent sidebar that follows the same logic as WP Admin, so you already know where everything is.
#WCUS 2026 is a wrap. 🌵 Amanda Ventura of @waymo.bsky.social opened the last day, and @ma.tt and @robertjacobi.com closed it out with a fireside chat, and Phoenix showed up for every minute in between.
Day Three of WordCamp US is a wrap! Our booth and all-new Happiness Bar were bustling, the sessions and talks were boundary-pushing, and the excitement around all things @wordpress.org has never been greater. Here are some of our favorite snaps of our teammates and beyond.
We're willing to bet someone published their first website today. While WordCamp US day two walked us through the sites that serve millions, a room down the hall was full of people getting theirs online for the very first time. #WCUS #WordPress
Introducing the WordPress.com Education Program, launched today at #WCUS 🎓 Teachers can give every student a professional WordPress site with plugins, themes, tools, a free domain, and hosting that renews each year they're enrolled. wp.com/edu
Behind every secure, flexible @wordpress.org site is a community that shows up. 🌎 We just wrapped up Contributor Day at WordCamp US, where builders, developers, creators, and innovators came together to make the world’s largest CMS even better. #WCUS #WordPress
Four days in Phoenix, one stacked lineup, and seven things we wouldn't miss. We went through the WordCamp US schedule and pulled what we'd clear our calendar for: sessions, launches, and one very analog surprise. 👀
We're three days out from WordCamp US. 🌵 If you build with @wordpress.org, innovate on it, or make your living from it, meet our team and demo our latest AI-native features in Phoenix! #WCUS #WordPress
We're packing our bags. Phoenix, you're next. 🌵 The WordPress.com team is bringing our newest AI-native features to WordCamp U.S. 2026, and we can't wait to show you what we've shipped. Let's build the open web, together.
Did you know @wordpress.org powers over 40 percent of the web? There’s also a powerful community behind it, with endless meetups and ways to connect IRL. Our guide to finding your local WordPress community is now live on our blog.
Did you know @wordpress.org powers around 43 percent of the web? There’s also a powerful community behind it, with endless meetups and ways to connect IRL. Our guide to finding your local WordPress community is now live on our blog.
For years, SEO meant one thing: Showing up on Google. The game has changed. Our free text-based course, Master SEO & AIO, teaches you how to rank in both traditional search and AI search so you can continue to scale as a @wordpress.org blogger or creator.
Arizona, we’re coming in hot! WordCamp U.S. 2026 is around the corner–four days of skill-building, memory-making, sessions, panels, and celebrating all things @wordpress.org. While it’s hard to choose, we’ve rounded up seven reasons to attend WordCamp US.
Got something worth recording at WordCamp US? Now you have a place to do it. 🎙️ WordPress.com is sponsoring the Creator Studio in Phoenix: a bookable, on-site recording space where we handle the room, the pro gear, and the setup. You just show up with something to say.
New on WordPress.com: a few updates that make creating content easier! Resize the editor to fit your workflow, crop images with more precision, and flip or rotate icons in just a few clicks.
