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Radical Speed Month has wrapped! For one month, Automatticians built in the open, shipped fast, and shared their work. The result is a stack of projects that make WordPress.com more flexible, more useful, and more connected than ever. |
Look at the projects below, and you’ll see that WordPress.com is becoming a better place to write, build, sell, prototype, repurpose, and tinker. |
WordPress.com has always evolved to make publishing, building, and managing sites easier. What’s shifting now is context. AI gets a lot more useful the moment it understands your site, your content, your workflow, and what you’re actually trying to make. |
Note: Many of these features are still in beta and are actively evolving. |
What is Radical Speed Month? |
Radical Speed Month is a creative experiment led by developers, designers, marketers, and many others across the Automattic team to build, ship, and test WordPress.com features faster. |
Rather than chasing perfection, the goal was to move quickly before ideas got too precious, share what was in progress, and iterate in real time based on your feedback. |
Radical Speed Month produced a multitude of experiments, features, and prototypes. |
Here are 10 that stood out: |
These projects differ from one another, but the same patterns keep showing up: publishing is getting lighter, development is getting faster, creator workflows are becoming more flexible, and AI is moving from “write this for me” to “help me work.” |
The projects below span publishing, development, AI, and creator workflows. Together, they offer a small snapshot of what teams across Automattic explored during Radical Speed Month. |
What is WordPress Workspace? WordPress Workspace is a desktop app that brings WordPress Agent into your Mac workflow. |
The highlight here is context. Instead of bouncing between a browser, notes app, media library, an AI assistant, and file uploads, Workspace gives people a way to work with WordPress within the flow of their day. |
You can ask questions about your site, dictate thoughts, upload screenshots and images, transform selected text, and get help without rebuilding the same context over and over. |
Why it stands out: your WordPress site already contains the shape of your work – posts, pages, media, products, audience context, drafts, and ideas. Workspace treats that context as something useful while work is happening, not only after something is ready to publish. |
What is WordCamp Agent? WordCamp Agent is a Telegram assistant built for WordCamp attendees. It can help you plan your trip, browse the conference schedule, remember your interests and preferences, save notes during sessions, and turn those notes into a post or recap later. |
The highlight is context. WordCamp Agent is powered by WordPress Guidelines, the system under the hood that stores agent-facing knowledge directly inside WordPress: instructions, memories, skills, and artifacts. |
Why it stands out: Useful AI depends on useful context. A one-off prompt can help with one task, but a structured memory layer can support many workflows over time. WordCamp Agent shows what that looks like in practice: a WordPress-powered assistant that can remember, respond, and help people move from information to action. |
3. Blueprints Gallery (WordPress Studio) |
What is the Blueprints Gallery? The Blueprints Gallery is a feature in WordPress Studio that lets developers launch reusable WordPress environments from preconfigured blueprints. |
The highlight is practical speed. Instead of rebuilding the same local setup again and again, users can launch reusable WordPress environments from preconfigured blueprints. |
That reduces setup work and makes it easier to prototype, test, and share development patterns. |
Why it stands out: it removes repeated work without asking developers to give up flexibility. If the first hour of a project is usually setup, configuration, and remembering what worked last time, reusable environments change the pace of the work. |
What are WordPress.com Milestones? WordPress.com Milestones is a feature that celebrates progress and achievements inside WordPress.com, helping creators see momentum as they publish. |
Publishing frequently is a habit worth cultivating – and this feature encourages just that. |
Why it stands out: better tools should not make people feel removed from their work. They should help people stay on track. |
What is Easy Site Editor? Easy Site Editor is an experiment that makes editing a WordPress site feel more approachable. |
The goal is to make the path from idea to update easier to follow. |
Why it stands out: WordPress has depth, flexibility, and extensibility. The challenge is helping more people access that power without needing to understand everything at once. |
This points toward clearer site-building workflows for creators updating pages, agencies working with clients, businesses iterating on offers, and new users getting their first site into shape. |
AI can suggest, generate, and automate. But the editing experience still has to feel understandable. |
What is Lately? Lately is a messaging-first publishing experiment that lets you create private weekly letters by chatting with WordPress Agent. |
Instead of asking users to begin inside a traditional editor, Lately lets them interact with WordPress Agent through a lightweight conversational workflow to create private weekly letters. |
The highlight is capture. Ideas do not always arrive when someone is sitting in front of a blank editor. They show up in messages, notes, quick reflections, and half-formed thoughts. |
Lately explores what happens when WordPress meets people closer to that moment. |
Why it stands out: it connects lightweight capture and AI-assisted shaping back to a publishing system the user controls. |
7. Theme for Short-Form Blogging |
What is the theme for short-form blogging? This short-form social media theme is a WordPress.com theme for lightweight, social-style publishing. |
The highlight is immediacy. Not every post needs to be a long essay. Sometimes people want to publish a thought, a link, an image, an update, a reblog, or a quick reflection. |
Social platforms made that behavior feel natural, but they also trained creators to build on rented feeds. |
Why it stands out: this project brings some of that casual publishing energy back to a space the creator owns. |
What is Social Feeds? Social Feeds brings Bluesky, Mastodon, and the wider Fediverse into the WordPress.com Reader. |
The highlight is connection. Instead of jumping between social apps, users can follow people, read posts, react, reply, and publish from one place inside WordPress.com. |
For creators, the useful part is choice. A quick thought can stay short and social. But when it grows into something bigger, WordPress.com gives it somewhere to go: a post, a site, an archive, and a home the creator owns. |
Why it stands out: Social Feeds fits neatly with the short-form blogging theme. Together, they point to a more flexible publishing loop: read, react, post, expand, repurpose, and publish across formats without giving up ownership. |
What is Write? Write is a simplified posting experience built for writers on WordPress.com. It gives you one page, a blinking cursor, and only the formatting tools you need when you need them. |
The highlight is focus. Instead of starting inside the full block editor, Write gives creators a cleaner surface for getting words down quickly. The interface stays intentionally minimal, then brings in formatting when it helps and gets out of the way when it doesn’t. |
For writers, the useful part is flow. Write posts are still real WordPress posts, so they live alongside your other content, work with your theme, and can be opened in the block editor later if you want more control. |
Why it stands out: Write fits with the broader push toward lighter, faster publishing workflows. Alongside Lately, the short-form blogging theme, and Social Feeds, WordPress.com is exploring more ways to help people capture ideas, publish quickly, and stay in control of where their work lives. |
What is Wapuu Studio? Wapuu Studio is an AI-powered tool that lets you create and share your own custom Wapuu with the WordPress community. |
The highlight is creativity. Simply describe the Wapuu you’re imagining—its mood, outfit, theme, colors, or tiny adventure—and Wapuu Studio turns that idea into a unique character. You can browse community creations, remix ideas, and share your own designs. |
Why it stands out: Not every RSM project is about productivity. Wapuu Studio shows how AI can also make it easier to create, play, and participate in the WordPress community. It transforms a simple prompt into something visual, personal, and shareable while celebrating one of WordPress’s most recognizable mascots. |
Bonus: Clips (coming soon) |
What is Clips? Clips is a feature that turns WordPress.com posts into short-form video. |
The highlight is repurposing. Written content often needs to be adapted for social, video, promotional, or campaign materials. But repurposing takes time, tools, and a separate production process. |
Clips explores a simpler model: start with the post, then generate short-form video from the same source material. |
Why it stands out: A blog post becomes more than a final output. It becomes a source of truth that can feed other formats. |
Radical Speed Month projects at a glance |
| Project |
What it is |
What it enables |
| WordPress Workspace |
Desktop app for Mac |
Contextual help, media capture, text transforms, and quick questions about your site. |
| WordPress Guidelines / WordCamp Agent |
Agent-ready site context |
Instructions, memories, skills, and reusable knowledge for AI-assisted workflows. |
| Blueprints Gallery |
Local development environments |
Fast local setups, consistent stacks, and quicker prototyping. |
| WordPress.com Milestones |
Progress and motivation |
Habit formation, momentum, and achievement tracking. |
| Easy Site Editor |
Simplified site editing |
Lower cognitive load, faster iteration, and clearer editing paths. |
| Lately |
AI publishing by message |
Ambient writing, conversational drafts, and lightweight publishing. |
| Short-form social media theme |
Lightweight owned publishing |
Fast micro-updates and social-style posting with ownership intact. |
| Social Feeds |
Open social publishing |
Follow, read, react, reply, and publish across Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse from one place. |
Write |
Simplified posting |
Focused writing, minimal formatting, and real WordPress posts that can open in the block editor. |
| Wapuu Studio |
AI-powered character creator |
Generate and share custom Wapuus using simple text prompts. |
Clips (Coming Soon)
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AI-powered content repurposing |
Turn WordPress posts into short-form videos from the same source content. |
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Start exploring what WordPress.com makes possible |
Radical Speed Month showed the range of ideas Automatticians are bringing to life on WordPress.com: Whether it’s a cleaner way to write, a faster way to prototype, a more connected Reader, a custom Wapuu, or new ways to publish in formats that feel natural. |
Some of these tools are built for work. Others are personal, creative, experimental, or somewhere in between. |
If you’re new to WordPress.com, compare plans to get access to the latest tools and find the ideal setup for your site. |
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