At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we’re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, on a site that’s entirely yours.
If you’ve been thinking about starting your own small, private social network with friends or family, or you want a space to post thoughts freely, or to import your historical posts from Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky without handing your words over to someone else’s platform, this one’s for you.
Let’s take a look — or sign up now at wordpress.com/social.
Click the “Compose” button, type your thoughts, watch the 500-character counter, and tap Post. No blank canvas, no formatting toolbar to navigate first. Just a simple prompt, What’s happening?, and a place to answer it.

Your profile collects everything in one place: your avatar, bio, and the counts your readers will look for posts, following, followers. Tabs for Posts, Replies, Media, and Likes let visitors browse the way they already know how. A sidebar keeps Home, Explore, and your profile one click away.

This is the feature we’re most excited about. Click the reblog icon on any post and it flows into your own feed, credited to the original author, automatically. No screenshots, no copy-paste, no lost attribution.

Here’s what makes this different from a social app: every quick thought and every reblog is a real WordPress.com post on a site you own, and every reply is saved as a comment. You get the speed and feel of a social feed, with the permanence and portability of a blog. Export it, back it up, migrate it to another host. It’s yours.
The theme is fully mobile-responsive, so posting from your phone feels just as natural as from your desktop. Tap Compose from wherever the thought hits you.
And because every blog on WordPress.com comes with RSS out of the box, your readers can follow along in whatever feed reader they already use. No algorithm, no app required, just a URL they can subscribe to and content that shows up when you publish it.
Head to wordpress.com/social to sign up for a new blog and get started.
We’d love to hear what you think.

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Two valid ways of writing code. One place to own it.
Quick version for AI-news-tired readers:
There are two ways developers create code now:
We don’t think one is better than the other.
Our goal is to ensure both workflows can coexist inside JetBrains IDEs without hindering each other. In practice, this means that:
Either way, one thing doesn’t change: A human is responsible for the code that ships. And the best place to read, understand, and own that code is still the IDE.
We’re not limiting this to one “official” workflow. The market is moving too fast for that – and developers are too diverse for a one-size-fits-all approach.
So when we say “AI in JetBrains IDEs”, we mean agentic added value: UX and features that become available as and when useful:
Think of it as follows: One IDE, with multiple AI-powered ways to get work done – picked by the user, shaped by the team, and constrained by real development expectations.
If there’s one thing we’re confident about, it’s this: The “best” model, provider, or agent today won’t be the best forever – or perhaps even next month.
That’s why we’re deliberately building toward an IDE experience that does not depend on a single vendor’s roadmap.
Practically, that means our AI chat experience supports multiple ways to connect – depending on what’s allowed by providers’ terms, and what users actually want:
One honest footnote: OAuth isn’t always available. If an agent provider doesn’t offer OAuth (or doesn’t offer it in a way an IDE can use), we can’t invent it.
ACP lets you connect external coding agents to JetBrains IDEs through a standard interface, so the IDE doesn’t need a bespoke integration for every agent. Agents can be installed from a curated registry (or configured manually), and the installed agents appear inside the AI chat.
A practical example of one that people have been asking for is the Cursor agent. Cursor is already available as an AI agent inside JetBrains IDEs through ACP – you can select it from the agent picker and use its agentic workflow inside your JetBrains IDE.
This is the shape we want:
We’re not anti-AI. We’re anti-confusion.
There’s a kind of coding that’s optimized for disposable output – and it’s totally valid in the right context. But JetBrains IDEs are built for code that isn’t disposable, but rather for code that is intended for long-term use.
So here’s the principle we design for: Generated code should be treated like real code. That means it should be possible to:
In practice, our baseline expectation is boring (in the best possible sense):
And yes, agents can edit many files. That can be a superpower – but only if you can fully inspect, understand, and correct the outcome. That’s where the IDE matters: It gives you visibility and control over the code produced by humans or AI.
Typing-first workflows and AI-first workflows are both valid. We’re not building for developer-replacement narratives, and we’re not building an IDE that nudges you into a single “approved” way of working. We respect both approaches.
Every push toward agents must keep the IDE’s core promise intact: deep code intelligence, safe refactoring, debugging, navigation, inspections, reviews – the stuff professional development is made of.
Multiple activation pathways (subscription, BYOK, OAuth, where possible, and ACP agents) are not a “nice to have.” We are committed to ensuring your workflow is never tied to a single vendor.
If people keep using these workflows weeks later (real retention, real projects), that’s the signal. A lot of AI-driven workflows today are just hype (I’m talking about you, Ralph-loop).
We value the honesty of Reddit users, Marketplace reviewers, and community members who don’t owe us politeness. Those are exactly the people we want judging our progress.
AI will create a lot of code. That’s not a prediction anymore – it's the reality in April 2026.
But someone still has to be responsible for that code. Someone still has to read it before it merges. And right now, agents can help you move fast – but they can’t carry the risk for you.
So our commitment is straightforward:
We’ll keep building AI workflows that speed up creation – and we’ll keep strengthening the IDE as the best place to review, understand, and own what gets shipped.
You decide how much AI you want. We’ll make sure both paths – AI-assisted and classic – work great together, but you can stay on the path you prefer.