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SEO in 2026 means optimizing for both traditional search engines and AI discovery tools — and WordPress gives you the plugin ecosystem to handle both.
The challenge? Figuring out which SEO plugins actually move the needle versus which ones just clutter your dashboard....

On WordPress.com, you can manage the entire lifecycle of your website — setup, development, launch, day-to-day management, and potential adjustments — on a single platform that grows with you.
When I first learned to build WordPress sites, I had to stitch them together from different tools and vendors. Think of connecting your domain registrar to a hosting provider, installing backup, security, and performance plugins — that sort of thing...

When we launched Telex back in August, we invited everyone to experiment with AI-powered block creation.
Since then, thousands of you have built blocks, shared feedback, and pushed the tool in directions we didn’t expect.
That enthusiasm kept us going. Here’s what’s new....

Lily Burton spent years in the lab. PhD in biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the University of Chicago. Deep research. Big questions.
But something was missing.
“I really enjoyed thinking about very deep questions,” she says. “But I kind of missed the human element. I would get frustrated — why should a normal, everyday person care about this?”...