WordPress.com Changelog: A Resizable Editor and Sharper Image Cropping

July 3 – 16, 2026

Welcome back to the WordPress.com changelog! You’ll find some helpful updates to the editing experience in this stretch: you can now size the editor to any screen width, crop images more precisely, and flip and rotate icons — plus the usual round of reliability fixes.

Create and publish

Size your editor to any screen, not just three presets

When you’re working on a post or a page on your site, it’s helpful to see how the content looks at different screen sizes. The latest WordPress editor update helps you do exactly that.

Drag the edge of the editor to any width and watch your page adjust as you go — so you can see exactly how your content will look on a phone, a tablet, or anything in between before you publish.

More precise image cropping — now in the Cover block too

Cropping an image is now more precise. A zoomed-in view lets you line up your crop just right, and it works on those big full-width banner images in a Cover block too.

Flip and rotate icons

The Icon block (which allows you to quickly add icons to your content from a built-in icon library) now has flip-horizontal, flip-vertical, and rotate controls right in the toolbar, so you can more easily orient an icon exactly how you want.

Fixes and improvements

We also shipped some reliability and polish updates across WordPress.com to keep your site running smoothly. We:

• Fixed a crash in the Help Center that was preventing some support articles from loading.
• Fixed a blank screen and an accidental duplicate site when returning to a checkout screen after backing out.
• Added a clear error when adding a domain to your cart fails, instead of the option quietly disappearing.
• Stopped showing upgrade prompts in Stats for products your site already has.
• Added a warning when a Form block isn’t set up to collect responses, so submissions don’t silently go nowhere.
• Resolved an issue where paid subscribers could lose access to members-only content in a Paid Content block after a renewal.
• Kept WordPress core up to date with the latest maintenance update.

Original Post https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/07/17/resizable-editor-image-cropping/