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

June 19 – July 2, 2026

Welcome again to the WordPress.com changelog! All over the closing two weeks, we thinking about providing you with extra regulate: a subscription signup you’ll tailor for your readers, a enhance assistant that may now type out your area settings proper within the chat, and extra.

Create and put up

Customise your e-newsletter signup

Your subscription shape not must 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 in your unfastened and paid tiers so other folks know what they’re getting, and optionally disguise the unfastened tier to indicate readers instantly for your paid plans.

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

For shops

Sooner product discovery on your WooCommerce retailer

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

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

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

Beef up

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

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

Ask it to arrange e-mail in your area (thru services and products 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 exchange at the spot. The assistant confirms the adjustments with you sooner than executing, so not anything occurs with out your approval.

When logged in, click on the query mark icon within the best navigation bar, click on “Get lend a hand,” and ask away.

Fixes and enhancements

We additionally shipped a handful of smaller enhancements and fixes to clean out your daily:

• Mounted 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 submit sparks an concept, you’re one click on from writing within the complete editor.
• Added a settings tab for your Reader profile, so you’ll regulate whether or not or now not your achievements are public.
• Mounted the password reset go with the flow to turn a transparent message when it fails, as an alternative of a lifeless finish.
• Mounted the Lend a hand Middle so it quite a bit immediately, although you’re nonetheless partway thru putting in place your account. 
• Up to date plan-change confirmations, so downgrading to any other annual plan presentations you precisely what modified.