Until recently, AI on a WordPress site meant a plugin someone bolted on – a content generator here, a chat widget there, each doing its own thing in its own silo. That’s starting to change in a more fundamental way. WordPress is beginning to build AI capability into the platform itself, so that assistants and … Continued
Ask a content team what they wish WordPress did better and “let more than one of us work on this at once” comes up fast. Today, two people editing the same post is a recipe for one of them silently overwriting the other. For teams used to Google Docs and Notion, that feels a decade … Continued
For a long time, “interactive WordPress site” meant one of two things: a pile of jQuery bolted on by hand, or a heavy JavaScript framework wrapped around a headless build. Neither was great. One was messy and fragile; the other was a lot of machinery for what were often small touches of interactivity. That’s been … Continued
For years, “should I use a block theme?” had an easy answer: not yet. Full Site Editing was half-finished, the tooling was rough, and every serious project reached for a classic theme and a page builder instead. That answer has quietly stopped being true. Full Site Editing has matured. Block themes are now the default … Continued
There’s a recurring problem with AI assistants: they’re brilliant reasoners with no hands. They can talk about your WordPress site all day, but they can’t actually search it, read a specific post, or check today’s stock — unless you build the connection yourself, over and over, for every assistant and every integration. The Model Context … Continued
The moment you give an AI agent tools — the ability to search your content, look up an order, create a draft — you’ve added a new kind of user to your WordPress site. One that follows instructions from anyone who can get text in front of it. That’s powerful, and it’s exactly why agents … Continued
The most valuable AI on a WordPress site usually isn’t the flashy chat widget visitors see. It’s the quiet automation running behind the scenes, doing the repetitive work that eats your week. Here are five agentic workflows I keep coming back to because the return is immediate and obvious. None of them require ripping up … Continued
WordPress runs a huge share of the web because it’s a brilliant content management system. It is not a brilliant application runtime for AI – and it doesn’t need to be. The cleanest way to build intelligent features on top of WordPress is to stop asking it to do everything. That’s the case for headless … Continued
A launch is a process, not a moment. The difference between a smooth go-live and a frantic one is almost never talent — it’s whether someone worked through a list before pointing DNS at the new site. I run the same 90-point checklist before every WordPress launch. It’s saved me from the classic disasters more … Continued
“AI” has become a checkbox feature. Drop a chat widget in the corner, wire it to an LLM, and call the site “AI-powered.” For most WordPress sites that’s where it ends — and it’s why so many of these features feel like expensive gimmicks. Agentic AI is a different category entirely. The distinction matters because … Continued