WordPress

09.04.25. WordPress.com launched free AI-powered website builder



Hosting platform WordPress launched a new free AI website builder that allows anyone to create a functioning website. It's targeted at entrepreneurs, freelancers, bloggers and can't be used to create more advanced websites like e-commerce stores. To use the new tool, users engage with an AI chatbot in a conversational style to design the website with their own text and images and to configure the site’s layout. To get started, users first type in a prompt that explains their website idea — like “build a website for my coffee shop.” The new service may help WordPress better compete with companies like Squarespace and Wix, which offer AI builders to speed up site creation and design.


2017. WordPress app for Android has been improved for Jetpack-based sites.



Automattic has released a major update to its WordPress mobile app for Android, which allows to manage website from smartphone. Last year, app users faced a growing gap between the features available to self-hosted sites and those available on WordPress.com paid service. The lack of a WP REST API in the app's core prevented them from using the same site management features that WordPress.com site owners already enjoy. The upcoming release closes this gap with improved support for Jetpack-based sites. Jetpack is a universal WordPress plugin developed by Automattic to attract users of the open-source CMS to its paid service. Self-hosted WordPress site owners will now have access to user management and site settings features within the app. Completely redesigned network layer ensures faster performance of statistics and other features. The app also enables adding new blog posts and pages, commenting, moderating comments, replying to comments.


2015. WordPress.com goes Open Source and gets a desktop app



WordPress.com, the WordPress hosting service has unveiled one of its biggest updates. First, WordPress.com (i.e. its admin interface) is now fully separated from the WordPress CMS. It interacts with the CMS via REST API to fetch your posts, publish new ones, upload photos and more. Second, the team behind WordPress.com switched to an entirely new stack. Instead of using PHP and MySQL, the developers built the admin console on JavaScript. It means that when you go to the website - you download full WordPress.com client that runs in your browser. Finally, everything is open source now and available on GitHub. Also the company unveiled new Mac desktop app for WordPress.com. In many ways, this app works like the browser app. It leverages web technologies and desktop features so that you get more or less the exact same thing, but with a few goodies, such as notifications. Windows and Linux apps are in the works.