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See what’s new on WordPress.com: sharper in-editor image cropping, an AI assistant that can now edit your site and manage plugins, plus a new Desktop Mode. Source

Desktop Mode is a free plugin from Automattic that turns your WordPress admin into a real desktop workspace with windows, drag and drop, AI search, virtual desktops, and hundreds of hooks to extend it. Source

Learn four ways to improve AI discoverability for websites with clearer content, stronger trust signals, and an owned home base built on WordPress.com. Source

The WordPress Studio desktop app is now available for Linux users, providing a quick, server-free way to develop local WordPress sites. Source

WordPress.com launched 10 new features during Radical Speed Month, including WordPress Workspace for Mac, the Blueprints Gallery in Studio, Easy Site Editor, Social Feeds in the Reader, and AI-assisted publishing tools. Here’s what each one does. Source

What I learned at my first WordCamp about community, search, and how some things never change. Source

Tired of manually sending screenshot to your coding agent? Studio Code’s /annotate turns click-to-comment feedback into edits, all in one go. Free in beta. Source

WordPress 7.0 is here, plus a social-friendly Reader, a distraction-free writing mode, AI podcast & video tools, and permalink settings on every paid plan. Source

If you’ve been blogging for a while, you’ll probably know the WordPress.com Reader – a calm place to catch up on the blogs you follow, without an algorithm deciding what you see. This month, we added a new Social Feeds section to the Reader. Now you can bring in the people you follow on Bluesky,……

One page. A blinking cursor. The formatting you need and nothing you don’t. That’s Write, a new, focused writing surface built into WordPress.com. In last year’s Creators survey, “simplify the editor” was the single most-requested improvement from the people already publishing on WordPress.com. So we built it. Source