In what we're hoping is the beginning of a trend, WordPress.com has announced a new built-in URL-shortening service for all of its hosted blogs. Now, when you create a post on your WordPress.com blog, ...

On March 20, the company enabled AI agents including Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw and Cursor to create, edit and manage content on WordPress.com sites. The update adds write capabilities to the Model ...

Microsoft is shutting down its Windows Live Spaces blogging service and migrating an estimated 30 million of its users to the competing blogging site WordPress.com, owned by Web development firm ...

WordPress.com introduced AI-powered writing tools on Friday, that lets AI agents like ChatGPT create, edit, and manage ...

If blogging is all about self-expression, why do so many blogs look so blah? Most free blog services offer only a handful of designs, giving you few options for personalizing your site. Most beginner ...

WordPress.com is finally giving its bloggers the opportunity to earn a little revenue from their well-crafted words, and taking a jab at Google simultaneously. The WordPress.com blog has revealed a ...

In a blog post on the WordPress.com blog, Automattic‘s Justin Shreve this morning acknowledged his employer’s aspirations to turn WordPress.com into more of a platform than a mere Web-based blogging ...

Automattic has teamed up with Federated Media to – finally – allow WordPress.com bloggers to make money from online advertising. The project is called WordAds and if you’re on WordPress.com you can ...

The confusion between WordPress.com versus WordPress.org continues to rage. This persistent confusion leads many people to choose the wrong blogging platform for their needs. Before we dig deeper, let ...