Share your ideas about AI in WordPress – we want to hear from you
This is just the beginning. Whether you’re an engineer, designer, researcher, or just curious about AI, we’d love to have you involved as we shape the future of AI in WordPress.
What’s Next
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing: meeting schedules and format, the initial team roadmap, contribution guidelines, and more.
Team Members
Felix Arntz @flixos90 (co-Team RepTeam RepA Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.) – Google
James LePage @isotropic (co-Team Rep) – Automattic
Last week, @4thhubbard officially introduced the new WordPress AI Team as a group of contributors focused on exploring how artificial intelligence can enhance the WordPress experience, responsibly and in the open.
With the team now formed, we’re excited to share our next steps: what we’re building first, how the team will operate, and how you can get involved.
Initial areas of focus
We’re starting with a small, high-impact set of Canonical Plugins and tooling to create a flexible foundation for AI in WordPress:
Focus Area
What it enables
Tool and resource definition/registration abstraction
A system for registering WordPress features and capabilities that AI agents can understand and interact with, helping tools comprehend what a site can do. Projects like the Feature API provide a starting point.
Provider-agnostic LLM client abstraction
A flexible interface layer (PHPPHPPHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. and JS) that supports calling AI models regardless of where they run – locally (in-browser or server) or from third-party APIs. The AI ServicespluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party offers an initial implementation to build upon.
Integration bridges
Connectors that let external agents / AI interact with WordPress through standardized protocols like Model Context Protocol (MCP). Work like AI-Command and WordPress MCP are good references.
Showcase Plugin
A bundled demonstration combining all focus areas for real-world testing and community feedback.
These are being developed with CoreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. standards in mind from day one, but iterated quickly as Canonical Plugins, just like the Performance Lab plugin did for the Performance Team. Some may eventually be proposed for Core inclusion, while others may remain as feature plugins long-term.
How the team works
The AI Team follows a structure similar to other Make teams, with an emphasis on transparency, community input, and public collaboration:
GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/: Code and planning will live in dedicated repos within the WordPress org.
Decision-making: Day-to-day decisions through pull request reviews and discussion; major directional changes via Make/AI proposals.
This structure enables fast iteration without compromising on open-source values or inclusion.
How you can contribute
Whether you’re an engineer, designer, researcher, or just curious, there are lots of ways to get involved:
Drop into the #core-ai Slack channel to say hi, ask questions, or share ideas.
Review the initial plugin repos, contribute feedback, or open PRs. Repositories will be set up within the WordPress GitHub org in the near future.
Join bi-weekly meetings to help shape the roadmap and discuss priorities.
Watch for the upcoming public roadmap post, which will outline short- and medium-term goals.
This is just the beginning. If you’re working on AI-powered WordPress tools, exploring intelligent site assistants, or building models that help creators, then this team is your space to collaborate.
Let’s build this together
AI is already changing how we work with the web. The WordPress AI Team is here to ensure that change happens in ways that are open, inclusive, and aligned with what makes WordPress thrive.
