WordPress.com is another free blog site. It allows you to create blogs freely. Free blogs will appear with a subdomain extension like example.wordPress.com.
To connect to a custom domain, you should go with a premium plan of WordPress.com. It also helps you to install dozens of premium quality themes on your blog. A separate hosting plan is not required for WordPress.com.
Medium, Google Blogger, and Tumblr are other popular free blog sites.
Studio by WordPress.com has been my favorite new tool for WordPress. It has pushed a TON of amazing features over the past year, and they really ramped up the development cycle cadence.
This is snappy local environment that anyone looking to try out WordPress, test themes and plugins, or create a robust developer workflow will enjoy. Hats off to Nick Diego for shepherding Studio!
#wordpress #studio #studiobywordpress #wordpresscom #wordpresscomstudio
AI-powered Typo Hunting: Trust Your Docs, Readers Will
Our documentation has a trust problem, and I just found 142 reasons why. It started with a silly typo I noticed on one of the pages – something like “cotnact” instead of “contact”. It was quick to fix, but it got me thinking: are there more?
Third‑party writing assistants are available as browser extensions, and we also have a spelling mistake checker available within Jetpack. With such tools, it’s easy to catch typos when editing pages, BUT it requires being on a specific page in edit mode.
Why it’s a problem
Typos can negatively impact our company’s credibility, giving the impression of negligence or lack of expertise.
Solution
I wanted a better approach—proactive rather than reactive.
Fortunately, WordPress.com public API made it easy to build an automated solution. Leveraging the WordPress.com API, I scanned all Jetpack.com support pages by sending their content to the GPT‑4o model (a multilingual, multimodal generative pre‑trained transformer developed by OpenAI) with this prompt:
prompt = """Your task is to check the provided text in American English for accidental typos.
List all obvious typo errors in the provided text and propose a replacement.
Do not list any of those:
- punctuation errors,
- grammar errors,
- typos in html attributes,
- typos in code snippets,
- words including HTML special characters.
"""
Results and next steps
I ended up with 142 pages that required our attention. Some of the detected typos may be false positives, some may need a review by a native speaker, but many are accurately identified typos (“Keet”, “Nexdoor”, “perfomance”).
Cleaning up typos in the Jetpack.com documentation – work in progress.Curious about the technical details? Here’s the code I used:
from openai import OpenAIimport jsonimport requestsimport pandas as pd client = OpenAI() def get_wp_posts(id, type): # Base URL for the WordPress.com API request base_url = f"https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/sites/{id}/posts/?type={type}" page = 1 # Start from the first page # List to store the post IDs and URLs posts_data = [] while True: # Append the page number to the base URL url = f"{base_url}&page={page}" response = requests.get(url) if response.status_code == 200: data = response.json() posts = data.get('posts', []) if not posts: break # Break the loop if no posts are returned for post in posts: posts_data.append({'id': post['ID'], 'url': post['URL'], 'content': post['content']}) page += 1 # Increment the page number for the next request else: print(f"Failed to retrieve data: {response.status_code} {response.text}") break # Convert list of posts to DataFrame return pd.DataFrame(posts_data) def find_typos(x): prompt = """Your task is to check the provided text in American English for accidental typos. List all obvious typo errors in the provided text and propose a replacement. Do not list any of those: - punctuation errors, - grammar errors, - typos in html attributes, - typos in code snippets, - words including HTML special characters. """ response = client.responses.create( model="gpt-4o-2024-08-06", input=[ {"role": "system", "content": prompt}, {"role": "user", "content": x} ], text={ "format": { "type": "json_schema", "name": "typos", "schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "typos": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "replacements": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, }, "required": ["typos", "replacements"], "additionalProperties": False }, "strict": True } } ) print(response.output_text) return json.loads(response.output_text) df = get_wp_posts(20115252, "jetpack_support")df["typos"] = df["content"].apply(find_typos) Your turn, it is.
Typos might seem small, but they speak volumes about professionalism and attention to detail. How confident are you about your own content? Have you thought about doing something similar on your site or blog? What approach did you take? Are you ready to try this method? Or maybe you have AI prompt ideas beyond spell‑checking? Let us know in the comments!
#ArtificialIntelligence #NaturalLanguageProcessing #SemanticSearch #WordPressCom
There's @whtwnd.com for Bluesky users. There's #WriteFreely which is running on many #Fediverse servers. There's #Grav, a flat-file CMS. Or the hosted service s like #Blogger #WordpressCom and #NaverBlog. (Naver Blog is the best.)
A – Z Challenge: Plugins
When it comes to enhancing the functionality of your self-hosted WordPress blog, the right plugins can make all the difference. Many users find themselves inundated with options, each promising to deliver the same features. However, choosing the Jetpack plugin could be one of the best decisions you make for your website, and here’s why. Why Choose Jetpack? Jetpack isn’t just another plugin; it’s a comprehensive toolkit designed to streamline your blogging experience. Unlike the […]https://fedorapancakes.com/2025/04/16/a-z-challenge-plugins/
»#WordPresscom launches a free, new #AIwebsitebuilder that allows anyone to create a functioning website using an AI chat-style interface.« https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/wordpress-com-launches-a-free-ai-powered-website-builder/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Blogiversary
Apparently today was this WordPress.com account’s eighth birthday. Time flies.
Of course the blog itself dates back to 2006, but it’s changes platforms a whole bunch of times. It’s only this latest incarnation that’s celebrating its birthday.
Navigating WordPress.com Changes: Where did my dashboard go?!
It only took two and a half months since my last post for a major change to happen to our WordPress.com experience.
TPTB (AKA Automattic, WordPress.com’s parent company) decided this month that it will make WordPress.com much closer to the core WordPress experience. They first switched several of our site dashboards to the WP Admin view. This caused the Classic Editor to temporarily disappear. They also turned off the VIEW tab on those same dashboards, which removed the ability to switch between the Default/Calypso view and Classic/WP Admin view.
Then, a few days later they finally announced it officially in this post:
You’ll want to read the entire thing, including comments. (Aside: I haven’t seen that many comments on a WordPress.com News blog post in years. And if you want to leave feedback about the change, there’s currently an open sticky post in our Community forums – now closed.)
Now it’s the Classic/WPAdmin view all the time in those dashboards and there are at least two known issues:
Being a longtime site owner here can sometimes makes me feel like I’m on a roller coaster, especially since this particular site focuses on changes to WordPress.com itself. And there have been a lot of changes, even since 2021. What we really need is stability so we can write and not wrestle with our workflow all the time.
Your thoughts?
As always, the information in this post is correct as of publication date. Changes are inevitable.
#blogging #Calypso #dashboard #Thoughts #UserExperience #WordPressCom #wpAdmin
AI Images in WordPress.com?
Earlier today I inserted an image into a post using the wordpress.com image tag thing. “/img”. 99% of the time I just paste in a link to an image on Flickr and the post editor embeds the photo through magic or something. The other 1% of the time I pull the images off of my phone. This morning though I used the tag and saw something new. There’s an option to have the built in wordpress.com AI thing generate an image for you.
I figured I’d try it out today. I asked it to generate an image of a Jedi Knight petting a kitten while a blues band plays in the background. Success, I guess?
Let’s try another one. This time I’ll add the instructions before I generate the image… how about this:
Generate an image of a hockey player using his stick to fight off a zombie attack at a fast food restaurant
Let us see the results………
Huh… okay… I guess it decided on its own that one of the zombies should also be a hockey player. Everyone appears to be skating without actually wearing skates, though why they would have to skate at a fast food joint is unknown. Is the guy in the back living or just a newly turned zombie. Also, what’s the deal with the teeth on the zombie on the left? Does the AI think that zombies have different teeth than the humans they used to be? That does not compute.
Okay, so there’s a nice little feature that I will only ever use ironically. Okay. I guess.
#Img #aiGeneratedImages #aiImages #aiIsDumb #aiIsStupid #images #wordpressCom
Search Engine Journal: WordPress Developer Publishes Code To Block Mullenweg’s Web Hosting Clients. “A prolific WordPress plugin publisher who has created over three dozen free plugins has released code that other plugin and theme publishers can use to block client’s of Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress.com commercial web hosting platform from using them.”
Tumblr och Fediversum. Tidigare har företaget som äger bloggplattformen och sociala mediesajten Tumblr sagt att de ska anpassa Tumblr till fediversum. Dvs göra det möjligt för Tumblr att kommunicera med protokollet ActivityPub.
Transfer from #wordpresscom to #hostinger begun. I almost considered #bluehost but I remember how I lost a site because their automagic backups lost a month of writing a decade ago and...
Costs were pretty ok. Their #BlackFriday deals sold me up to cloud level.
Trzeba uważać na złośliwe wtyczki wyłudzające dane: ClearFake/ClickFix - #Plugins #wordpress
Da un lato peccato, perché avevo pre-scritto qualche paragrafo al vetriolo, e ora non posso più postarlo. Però meglio così. Resta tuttavia ancora possibilissimo speculare su come mai questo blocco sia in primo luogo arrivato… Voglio dì, questa roba con WordPress, anche se parrebbe (da molti segnali) il banale risultato di un’infrastruttura che si regge sullo sputo, sembra un pochino l’ennesimo complotto nei miei confronti.
Quindi, abbiamo poche opzioni. Le cose plausibili sono solo il fatto di aver linkato ad un vecchio post del fritto misto (che essendo WordPress hostato da Altervista è la concorrenza, e quindi spam)… o di aver ammiccato negativamente al fatto che #WordPress sia capace di rompersi (vi ricordo che ora #Automattic ha la sua AI, quindi chissà che non la usi per censurare in automatico post di potenziale dissenso?). 🤐️
Ci sarebbero anche alcune spiegazioni implausibili, tipo che magari il server si è incazzato perché ho postato dopo 4 anni… ma questo non avrebbe alcun senso, né da un lato tecnico né da uno di business. Non che bannare utenti che non violano i ToS (verità anche in questo caso riconosciuta dagli umani) abbia di per sé senso, però. 😔️
Devo però riconoscere che il #supporto è stato totalmente competente e mediamente veloce, quindi la mia sofferenza è stata molto contenuta… Detto questo, posso allora anche continuare facendo finta che ieri non sia successo nulla, e fare comunque lì il sito che mi serve per la scrittura epica, che è l’opzione più comoda. 😪️
Il motivo per cui ero in procinto di preparare le bombe, allora? Era perché mi aspettavo molto peggio, avendo letto quanto invece faccia schifo il supporto di Tumblr (che è ugualmente sotto l’ombrello for-profit di Automattic). Vabbé, in breve la colpa è, anche stavolta, di ‘sti cazzo de algoritmi… eliminateli, grazie! 🔪️ (Non lo faranno mai, perché la fame di profitto è una malattia, mannaggia alla miseria.)
https://octospacc.altervista.org/2024/10/17/unbanpress/
#antiSpam #Automattic #ban #supporto #unban #WordPress #WordPressCom
Minchia io non ci posso credere, siamo proprio all’assurdo, ormai è la seconda volta che succede: più mi fisso sull’analizzare e valutare piattaforme varie, più si alza la probabilità che io riceva un #ban senza fare assolutamente nulla!!! 😭
Per la cosa di ieri, nonostante tutte le rogne, stavo quantomeno considerando WordPress.com… perché comunque ha le sue funzioni social integrate, che potrebbero essere fighe per visibilità, e poi c’è il collegamento col Fediverso. Peccato che mi è scattato il ban. 😩
Proprio perché volevo vedere come fosse l’integrazione Fediverso loro, a differenza di quella del plugin selfhostato, ho scritto un post a casaccio su un sito già esistente, che stava lì a marcire da 4 anni. E, dopo aver pubblicato, mi accorgo che il post non si riesce a trovare su Mastodon… 😓
Vabbè, basta suspence, che ho già detto tutto: nella foto c’è cosa ho visto… #MANNAGGIA A ZIO CARTONE!!! 🥴🤯😵E, nella bacheca admin del #sito, questo messaggio super spaventoso IN ROSSO E IN INGLESE, con parte della UI corrotta. 🌋 (Pare una creepypasta.)Io ovviamente penso di non aver in generale mai violato i termini di servizio, e a maggior ragione non l’ho fatto col post di prima, che era una roba mezza per ridere e mezza per testing. E non ho parole, perché la loro sezione Reader è piena di siti monnezza, che esistono solo per fare spam, che è vietato dai ToS oltre che un danno ai blogger… e poi bannano a me?!?!?! 🪦
Il sito aveva letteralmente 2 post, 3 con questo, nulla di importante e quindi non piango; li ho però mirrorati qui un attimo, così potete vedere che non dico bugie sul che fossero innocui: https://hlb0.octt.eu.org/Drive/Misc/octospacc.wordpress.com-backup/. Però mannaggia la miseria, capitano letteralmente tutte a me!!! 😖
Ora ho mandato un messaggio al supporto come scritto in bacheca, però che cazzo… Le #piattaforme delle aziende devono iniziare a funzionare, una volta per tutte, non è possibile che io ora devo avere il mio workflow ostacolato solo perché questi hanno la roba rotta e mi parte un autoban contro. 👹Matt, stai sbagliando tutto. Lo hanno visto tutti cosa è successo a Du Rove, quando lui ha provato a sabotarmi solo per antipatia personale… Che nessuno mi sfidi o saranno uccelli senza zucchero, maremma puttana!!! 💣🧨🏢🎇
https://octospacc.altervista.org/2024/10/16/banpress/
#Mannaggia #octospacc #piattaforme #sito #testing #WordPress #WordPressCom
@david Let me see if I got this right, he required an agreement with that checkbox, and now effectively says it can be ignored?
Some things come to mind, including: shouldn't this be grounds to declare all legal agreements with Automattic unenforceable? I mean, management's saying it doesn't matter...
Blogger Chris Lovie-Taylor wrote about using WordPress Reader as his social network. I am only mildly acquainted with WordPress Reader because it is a part of wordpress.com instead of wordpress.org and both this site and The New Leaf Journal are powered by the WordPress software on a VPS. However, I do have a WordPress.com account and a created a single-page personal feed aggregator site (which could use a touch-up), so I have an idea of how WordPress Reader works. As Mr. Lovie-Taylor explains, you can automatically discover and follow WordPress.com site and add any site with an RSS/ATOM feed to your list of follows. I very much like the concept and appreciate that it allows following non-WordPress.com sites (.org sites can appear with the help of the Jetpack plugin but I am not running Jetpack on either of my sites). What I do not like is that it is tethered to WordPress.com. I think there is an idea here, however, for a “social” media site based on following external sites and sharing posts, maybe even with some Hypothes.is functionality.
https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/wordpress-com-reader-as-social-media/
Post Edited: Why is it again you need to ditch WordPress.com? https://swduncan.com/?p=331 #IndieWeb #WordPress #Wordpresscom
Controversial topic: WordPress.com is hot garbage. Look I'm not saying WPE is any better, but WordPress.com locks down so much of the functionality of WordPress that it's hot garbage.
