This week’s AI contributor meeting focused on the AI pluginPlugin A 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. release cycle, MCP clientMCP Client AI agents, IDEs, or assistants that connect to MCP servers to access capabilities. progress, connector-related issues, and contributor onboarding topics. Discussions also covered strategies for improving AI blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. recognition and processing Elementor feedback into actionable issues.

Announcements

• Testing feedback from @illuminea is available and should be reviewed. Contributors are encouraged to create issues in the relevant repositories based on findings. @justlevine is helping generate issues based on comment discussions in the document. Larger themes such as rate limits and fallback behavior may be addressed asynchronously.
• AI 0.7.0 was released last week. Feedback is encouraged, with emphasis on fixing bugs and improving existing features ahead of upcoming releases.

Abilities

• Commit needed: Abilities API: Catch exceptions thrown by ability callbacks
• Approved PRs related to the abilities work are ready to be merged following final checks.

AI plugin

• 0.8.0 is targeted for release next week.
• At least one additional major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality. is expected ahead of the eventual WordPress 7.0 release.
• Current focus remains on stabilizing existing features rather than introducing large new functionality.

PHPPHP PHP (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/index.php / WP AI Client

• Commit needed: A single config option to disable all LLM related features
• PR from @westonruter requires testing and review: #77353 — Connectors: preload REST API responses on the Connectors screen
• Issue from @westonruter requires a PR: #77352 — Connectors screen: Users are blocked on sites with a read-only file system (DISALLOW_FILE_MODS)
• Connector plugin developers should review recent API changes and updates: Connector APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. changes may require metadata adjustments when using wp_get_connectors().
• @flixos90 and @jason_the_adams pinged on merging updates in the Google providerProvider An AI service offering models for generation, embeddings, or other capabilities (e.g., Anthropic, Google, OpenAI). repository and shipping v1.0.4 to include recent fixes.

MCP

• MCP Client 0.5.0 was scheduled for release immediately following the meeting.
• Contributors discussed converting the MCP client from a Composer package into a WordPress plugin to avoid dependency conflicts.
• @ovidiu-galatan will initiate a public discussion in the coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. AI channel regarding reversing the original decision to ship as a Composer package.
• @justlevine can assist with technical aspects of submitting the MCP client as a plugin to WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/.

AI Block Recognition Strategies

• Contributors discussed challenges converting HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. into WordPress blocks due to missing backend creation mechanisms. Proposed approach:
  • Provide agents with a list of available blocks.
  • Use REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store (think “database” or “file system”) https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ or WP-CLIWP-CLI WP-CLI is the Command Line Interface for WordPress, used to do administrative and development tasks in a programmatic way. The project page is http://wp-cli.org/ https://make.wordpress.org/cli/ tools to expose block metadata.
  • Prefer source-code-driven context over traditional documentation references.
• @euthelup is preparing to open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. a Claude-based block dictionary tool.

Contributor Support Topics

• New contributors were encouraged to focus on areas aligned with their experience: AI client, Agent skills, Abilities, MCP development, AI plugin
• @mikeyarce reported being stuck in a verification loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop while submitting the Minimax provider plugin.
  • Recommendation: request assistance in the Plugins team SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ channel.
  • AI team members offered to help escalate if needed.
• Additional provider plugin work is ongoing, including development of connectors for services such as Kimi or Moonshot AI.

Next Steps

• Generate GitHubGitHub GitHub 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 by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issues from Miriam’s feedback documentation.
• Merge approved Abilities and llm-off-switch PRs.
• Release MCP Client 0.5.0.
• Continue testing connector-related changes.
• Advance preparation for AI plugin 0.8.0 release.

Upcoming meetings

Folks are welcome to join on Wednesday’s at 1700 UTC via Google Meet with in-meeting notes captured in a Slack Canvas and then paired with Gemini meeting notes to help generate this meeting summary post. All team meetings are published to https://make.wordpress.org/meetings/#ai.

• The next bi-weekly AI Team Office Hours Slack discussion is scheduled for 16 April 2026.
• The next weekly AI Contributor weekly Google Meet video call is scheduled for 22 April 2026.

Props to @neel33 for pre-publish review.

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