Category: Themes

Two months after my first WordCamp, I landed in Phoenix, AZ, for WordCamp US to experience it again, this time in another part of the world but with a similar group of people equally passionate about open source.  At first glance, the Arizona desert seems simple, barren. But look closer, and there is an elegance

At WordCamp US last week, we unveiled a completely reimagined WordPress Studio desktop app, rebuilt from the ground up around Studio Code, our AI WordPress expert.  With this new Studio desktop experience, you can describe what you want to the expert WordPress agent, watch it come together in a live preview, point at anything that’s

Managing multiple WordPress.com sites just got easier.  The Hosting Dashboard now has a persistent top bar and left sidebar that move with you between sites. Domain names, hosting, updates, and performance are now just one click away. So whether you manage one WordPress.com site or 20, you’ll always know where things are. View your Hosting

WordPress.com’s Support Assistant helps thousands of customers every day, from resetting forgotten passwords to connecting a domain name and explaining settings.  It resolves most questions on its own, but we built it to get you the right help, fast. And sometimes the right help is a person. Talking to our Support Assistant should never feel

You know your brand. AI usually needs reminding. Every time you use AI to build or write on your site, you can end up repeating the same context: your voice, your goals, how your images should look, what colors you use — the little rules that make your site recognizably yours. And after all that

If you ask Claude Code to review a changeset, you’ll get something useful. You’ll also, eventually, get something like this: Consider your error handling here. This could be more performant. It’s not wrong but it’s saying much. Feedback like that could apply to almost any code in any language written at any point in the

July 31 – August 13, 2026 Welcome back to the WordPress.com changelog. There are two bigger updates worth paying attention to this round, as well as a run of fixes: AI You know your brand, now your site does too Getting AI to write or design in your brand’s voice usually means describing that voice

WordCamp US 2026 is coming to Phoenix for the first time on August 16–19, and there’s a lot competing for your time and attention. If you’re planning your schedule, start here: our selection of eight speakers worth catching, hands-on demos of WordPress Studio and WordPress Agent, and something new for students and educators. This year

A couple of months ago I was trying, really hard, to play with this new and exciting AI Agent tool called OpenClaw, but I just couldn’t manage it. My problem was that installing it on my Mac was a nightmare. There were a couple of problems actually. First of all, I don’t do Terminal (which

July 17 – 30, 2026 Welcome back to the WordPress.com changelog! Some helpful editor updates headline today’s changelog: two brand-new blocks, a gallery that fills itself, and a much better way to leave notes on a draft. You can also now change your plan yourself, without contacting support. Editor Two new blocks: Tabs and Playlist

If you love building on WordPress, it’s time you were in a room full of other people who do too. WordCamp US lands in Phoenix on August 16–19, and this is your chance to connect with the WordPress community.  If you’ve never heard of WordCamp, here’s the TLDR: it’s a conference built entirely around WordPress

WordPress powers around 43% of the web, and behind all those sites is an even bigger community of people who use, teach, and improve it, meeting up all the time to swap ideas and lend a hand. This vibrant community has global IRL touch points as well as virtual ones that include local meetups, WordCamps