WordPress.com Social is a short-form blogging experience for quick posts, replies, and reblogs on a site you own. This guide covers how to sign up, use the key features, and import posts from other social networks.
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WordPress.com Social uses a dedicated signup flow separate from the standard WordPress.com site creation. To get started:
- Go to wordpress.com/social.
- Enter a username for your new site. Your site address will be username.wordpress.com.
- If you are already logged into a WordPress.com account, the site is created under that account. To use a different account, log out first.
- Select the “Create my site” button.
- On the next screen, choose whether to make your site public or private and optionally invite collaborators.
- You can change your site’s visibility at any time after you’ve created your site.
- Once you’ve created your site, you can continue to invite collaborators as well.
- Select “Finish and go to my site“. You are taken directly to the front end of your new site.
WordPress.com Social uses a simplified compose experience instead of the full WordPress editor. Posts have a 500-character limit, and a character counter in the compose box tracks your remaining characters as you type.
Follow these steps to create a new post, which will appear immediately in your site’s feed.
- Select the Post button in the sidebar.
- Type your post in the compose box.
- Add images or video by selecting the media button below the compose box.
- Click the Publish button to publish your post.
Click the three-dot menu next to any published post to edit or delete the post.
Use the icons below a post to interact with the post:
- Reply to a post
- Reblog a post to your own social site
- Like a post
- Share a post on another social network
- Get the RSS for the individual post
The sidebar provides quick access to the main sections of your site. It is visible on desktop and accessible from the navigation menu on mobile:
- Home: Your main feed with posts from you and people you follow.
- Tools: Import content from Twitter (X), Bluesky, Mastodon, and Instagram into your WordPress.com Social site, or connect your site to the Fediverse.
- Post: Open the compose box to write a new post.
- Profile: View your profile and published posts.
- Posts: your published posts.
- Replies: your replies to other posts.
- Media: posts that include images or video.
- Likes: posts you have liked.
Every WordPress.com Social site includes an RSS feed, so readers can subscribe to any site using a feed reader.
You can also connect your site to the Fediverse so users on Mastodon and other ActivityPub platforms can follow your posts. To enable this, go to the Tools page on your site and select the Fediverse checkbox. For more details, see Enter the Fediverse.
Custom domain support is not currently available for WordPress.com Social sites. Your site address uses the format username.wordpress.com.
WordPress.com Social is designed as a standalone experience with its own signup flow at wordpress.com/social. It is not available as a theme you can apply to an existing site through the theme library.
Yes. Every post and reply on your WordPress.com Social site is stored as standard WordPress content. You can export your site’s content at any time from Tools → Export in WP Admin.
