WordPress.com Changelog: Customized AI Subject matters and A New Video Participant

August 28 – September 14, 2026

Welcome again to the WordPress.com changelog! A lot of the engineering effort those previous two weeks went into some significant rollouts: our AI website online builder glide were given an improve and there’s a brand new VideoPress participant.

Create a customized theme with AI

Our AI website online builder for growing new websites simply were given extra succesful. On Top rate and Industry plans, it now generates an absolutely customized theme constructed round your objectives and emblem.

As soon as it’s constructed, we’ve streamlined the AI Editor, the place you’ll stay refining the design via speaking to the WordPress Agent, so that you all the time have reinforce and will get your web site precisely as you wish to have. A useful new function is known as Annotate, which lets you ship a couple of focused edits to the agent at one time:

A refreshed video participant

There’s a redesigned VideoPress participant to be had with some robust new options for websites on Industry and Trade plans. As a reminder, VideoPress is a light-weight and responsive video participant you’ll use to host and embed movies to your WordPress.com website online.

The replace is constructed round a cleaner keep watch over bar with bankruptcy markers and scrub-preview thumbnails constructed into the search bar, an more uncomplicated option to percentage a video (with separate dealing with for personal ones), and an finish display that provides choices to replay, percentage, or obtain as soon as a video finishes. The sharing and downloading is to your keep watch over as all the time.

Fixes and enhancements

We additionally:

• Advanced messaging when canceling a Google Workspace subscription, so it’s transparent precisely when get right of entry to ends. (Github PR) 
• Changed the dead-end empty cart when a website can’t be renewed with a transparent clarification and a one-click option to seek for a brand new area. (Github PR) 
• Wiped clean up the WordPress Agent’s command menu in Telegram. (Github PR) 
• Restored the lacking Seek menu merchandise for Jetpack Seek on impacted websites. (GitHub PR)
• Refreshed the design of the password reset web page for a clearer, extra guided glide. (GitHub PR)
• Added a “Retired” badge so you’ll inform at a look when a theme to your web site’s theme checklist is not receiving updates. (Github PR)