WordPress.com for Mac
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WordPress.com overview
WordPress.com is a desktop app that gives your blog a permanent home in your dock.
Features:
- Focus on your content - Write and design with no other browser tabs to distract you. Switch easily between managing your WordPress sites and your favorite desktop apps.
- Speed is a feature - The desktop app builds upon the already fast WordPress.com by bundling the entire site as a local copy. You get near-instant page-loads and less waiting around.
- Not one size fits all - The WordPress.com desktop app will scale to any size. Do you need a small window on the side to keep your eye on notifications, or do want to expand to a truly full screen for a zen writing experience? Take your pick.
What’s new in version 8.0.4
- desktop: Update code signing approach (#93845)
- Desktop App: Update app icons (#92835)
- Desktop App: Increase the default window size for the desktop app (#92898)
- Desktop App: Update top bar icons and background (#92841)
- Ensure My Sites links go to /sites (#92828)
- TC: Limit parallel ESLint tasks (#90643)
- fix(deps): update webpack packages (#89641)
- fix(deps): update webpack packages (#87920)
- fix(deps): update webpack packages (#87355)
- chore(deps): update webpack packages (#87151)
- chore(deps): update webpack packages (#80829)
- chore(deps): update unit test packages (#82424)
- chore(deps): update linters (major) (#80830)
WordPress.com for Mac
Free
In English
Version 8.0.4
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Sep 23 2025
Version: 8.0.4
Unfortunately, it's unclear why one even needs to have a wordpress.com account in order to use this thing locally and connect it to ones' own Wordpress site, hosted elsewhere. This makes no sense. On top of that, when using Apple login, one must use the actual email address used, as creating a new account using an hide-my-email iCloud address specifically isn't supported unlike in most other apps. You can do this in the browser beforehand, but then you find the next obstacle in that you have to connect your site to the wordpress.com account, even as this isn't hosted there. Why does free have to be awkward? It's not selling wordpress.com as a host, that for sure. Or maybe it's just them being honest.
I just deleted it.
Jan 15 2025
Version: 8.0.3
@macupdate, it's 2025, so why is the ARM version link hidden under Other requirements? It should be the default.
Jul 5 2023
Version: 8.0.0
Version for Apple silicon here: https://apps.wordpress.com
Oct 19 2022
Version: 7.2.0
AFAIU the difference between wordpress.org and wordpress.com, the latter is a company making money out of a free product (the .org one). Using the same name is very confusing (and probably on purpose)... On the positive side, they offer hosting service for the basic plan, but many are cheaper. Hopefully, their support is worth those 50 bucks a year. ;-)
Sep 9 2020
Version: 6.0.3
Reminder: Keep WordPress AND the plugins you use UP-TO-DATE! They are almost constantly being found to have security flaws. - - EXAMPLE: "Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw affecting >350,000 WordPress sites. Flaw is in *File Manager*, a plugin with more than 700,000 users; 52% are affected." - - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/hackers-are-exploiting-a-critical-flaw-affecting-350000-wordpress-sites/
