What's New in ZipWP

The library that’s built thousands of websites just got a lot easier to reach.

For years, Starter Templates has quietly powered some of the web’s best sites. Local businesses, agencies, restaurants, portfolios, stores. Designers and developers around the world have trusted its professionally crafted, full-site templates to give their projects a real head start.

However, to use or explore a template, you required a few things like hosting with WordPress installed. Then you had to install Starter Templates plugin, browse through the templates, chose one and begin customizing.

There was some friction before you’ve seen anything. We wanted to change that. So we integrated Starter Templates library into ZipWP!

No hosting to set up. No WordPress to install. No plugin to touch.

Simply open ZipWP, spot the template that feels right, and with one click it’s live on a temporary URL. Ready to explore. Ready to make yours.

Tweak the content. Adjust the details. Take your time. When you’re ready to go live, connect your domain. That’s the whole process.

Why did we add the Classic Starter Templates when AI site builder was there?

ZipWP already lets you build a site with AI. Describe your business and it’s done in seconds. Many people love that.

Classic Templates are for when you want full creative control from the start. Built by designers with real-world conversion and UX in mind, these templates lightweight, fast-loading, and optimized for how users actually move through a site. Every template works with both Block Editor and Elementor, is easy to customize, and has been proven across thousands of live websites.

What you see in the preview is exactly what goes live. For designers and developers who already know what they want, it’s a familiar workflow and a faster path than starting from AI output and reworking it.

Neither is a compromise. One gets you moving fast. The other gives you a designer’s head start. Pick the one that fits how you build.

Until next time,

ZipWP has always been the fastest way to spin up a WordPress site. Now it’s the fastest way to get any site online. You can host static websites on ZipWP. Upload your files manually or let an AI tool like Claude build and deploy them for you, all without leaving your workflow.

Upload Files

You can now host static websites on ZipWP. No WordPress required. Drop in a .zip archive or a single .html file from the dashboard and get a live sandbox URL in seconds. Works with plain HTML/CSS/JS, static exports from Vite, Astro, or self-contained PHP, and sites generated by AI tools like Claude, v0, or Bolt.

Push updates anytime using Replace Files — your URL stays the same, only the content changes. You can also download a copy, clone the site, or connect a custom domain when you’re ready to go live.

Host from Claude and Other MCP Tools

With the ZipWP MCP integration, Claude can build and deploy your site without any manual uploading.

Claude builds the files and calls ZipWP’s create-static-site tool — your site goes live instantly. Need changes? Claude can push updates with replace-static-site-files, keeping the same URL while the content refreshes.

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, v0, and any AI assistant that supports MCP. Connect once via the MCP setup guide and every project after is a single prompt away from being online.

Already have a site ready? Upload it now or Want Claude to build and deploy one for you? Set up the MCP integration!

Stay tuned for more updates!

You’ve always been able to generate a full multi-page site in seconds while building sites with ZipWP AI Site Builder. Now we’re giving you even more control over the process.

Select only the pages you want before generating your site, and build exactly what you need from the start.

Here’s a quick example: You’re building a site for a local cupcake bakery. Your design comes with 5 pages — Home, About, Services, Blog, and Contact. But the owner isn’t ready to start blogging yet, so you simply uncheck Blog and generate the rest.

Stay tuned for more updates!

You can now disconnect a domain from any Live Site with one click. Your site keeps running on its default ZipWP URL. Nothing goes down, nothing breaks.

Perfect for when you’re:

• Moving a domain to a better-built site
• Handing a site (or domain) back to a client
• Just experimenting with different domains

No tickets. No waiting. No drama. Just your domain, exactly where you want it.

Starting today, you can upload your own logo while planning a site in the AI Site Planner.

Generic placeholder logos make it hard to picture the finished website. With your own logos in the planner, you see your real brand from the very first preview — making it much easier to make confident design decisions before a single page is generated.

Open any AI Site Planner and click Upload Logo in the canvas to try it.

Stay tuned for more updates!

You know that moment when you’re building a page and the text just isn’t quite right, but you don’t want to stop and open another tool? That’s exactly what Ask AI fixes.

There’s now an “Ask AI” button right in the text toolbar. Hit it, and you can rewrite, shorten, expand, clean up grammar, or adjust the tone of any copy.

Want something more professional? Just say so. Need a call-to-action tacked on? Done. The AI already knows your page context and business details, so the suggestions actually make sense for what you’re building.

It’s a small change that makes the whole editing process feel a lot smoother. Less back-and-forth, less tab-switching, more momentum.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Your website hero sections don’t have to sit still anymore.

We just added video backgrounds to the AI Site Planner.Now, instead of a static image, your site can open with something that actually moves and grabs attention.

While creating your site with AI site planner, you can insert video backgrounds on sections with with visuals. ZipWP sets them to auto-play, muted, and looping so they just work, on every device.

See this demo below:

No more hunting for the right visual. No more settling for a flat image when you want something more alive. Just pick a section, swap the background to video, and you’re done.

Motion has always captured attention. Now, your website can do the same from the very first second. If you want your next site to make a stronger first impression, especially above the fold, this is worth trying.

Until next time,

You can now connect ZipWP to your favorite AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and more using MCP.

Once connected, your AI assistant can create, manage, and deploy WordPress sites on your behalf, all through natural conversation. Ask it to spin up a new site from a template, generate one with AI, clone an existing site, or pull up your list of blueprints. No clicking through dashboards required.

See this quick demo:

What you can do:

• Create AI-generated WordPress sites from a simple prompt
• Build from blank or start with a pre-made blueprint or template
• Clone existing sites instantly

And many more actions!

Setting it up takes just a few minutes. Head to our MCP setup guide to get started.

Typography plays an important role in shaping the personality of a page—making it feel modern, elegant, minimal, or expressive.

To give you better control over this visual element from the start, ZipWP now supports Google Fonts during AI site generation.

This means you can now preview and choose your site’s typography before the website is generated, allowing you to shape the overall look of the design early in the process.

For AI Site Builder

When building a site with AI Site Builder, design decisions happen quickly as layouts, sections, and styles are shown to you on “Select Design” screen.

With Google Fonts now available in the flow, typography becomes part of that early design decision.

You can preview how different fonts work with the selected layout and immediately see how the tone of the design changes. A small change in typography can noticeably shift how the same design appears.

For AI Site Planner

AI Site Planner helps you structure your website before generation. With the addition of Google Fonts, you can now define the typographic style of the site during the planning stage.

This allows you to shape the visual direction of the website along with its structure, ensuring the generated site reflects the tone you want from the beginning.

This allows you to make typography decisions before the site is created, rather than adjusting them later.

Start Your Next Site

Create your next AI-generated website and explore how typography shapes the final design.

Typography is a small detail that can significantly influence how a website feels and communicates its style. With Google Fonts now integrated into ZipWP’s AI workflow, you can shape that visual tone right from the start of site creation.

We’ve added a new capability to AI Site Planner that makes it easier to recreate and plan websites quickly. You can now generate a complete website structure from an existing website’s URL.

This feature analyzes the provided website and creates a new site with a similar page structure, saving time during planning and setup.

How It Works

Using the new option inside AI Site Planner, you can generate a site blueprint in a few simple steps:

1. Open AI Site Planner in ZipWP.
2. Switch to Import from URL.
3. Enter the business name.
4. Paste the website URL you want to reference.

ZipWP will then analyze the site and generate a new website plan.

It fetches the website’s content and uses it to understand what the site is about, allowing AI Site Planner to generate a new website with a similar structure, page hierarchy, and number of pages.

This helps you quickly recreate proven site layouts or use existing websites as a starting point for new projects.

Try It Now

If you’re on the Business plan, open AI Site Planner, switch to Import from URL, and generate your next website structure in minutes.

Start with any website you like and let ZipWP build for you.