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by pfg 3721 days ago
Note that this is about custom domains hosted on Wordpress.com's infrastructure. Blogs that were hosted as subdomains of wordpress.com have been using SSL since 2014 according to the original announcement. Let's Encrypt allowed them to enable it for custom domains without delivering a truckload of money to a CA.

The original announcement is a bit more precise on this.