WordPress.com Introduces AI Agents to Automate Website Creation and Management - AI Insider
Scale and what it means
WordPress runs more than 43 percent of all websites globally, according to figures Automattic presented at its State of the Word event in December 2025, holding a 60.5 percent share of the content management system market. [WordPress market position data reported by Automattic at its December 2025 State of the Word event; figure consistent with publicly available CMS market data but not independently verified by type0.] WordPress.com users alone publish 70 million new posts every month, seeing 20 billion page views and 409 million unique visitors per month. That reach is not nothing.
The practical question for site operators is trust. Giving an AI agent write access to a production site is a different proposition from asking it to summarize your traffic data. Automattic has leaned into the approval model as the headline safety feature, and the granular per-operation toggles suggest they are aware the feature will face scrutiny from exactly the operators who have the most to lose if something goes wrong.
Write capabilities are live now on all WordPress.com paid plans. Users enable them at wordpress.com/me/mcp, toggle on the specific operations they want to permit, and connect their preferred AI client.