How can I get started?
The AI Team offers lots of ways to participate, and we’d love to have you join us! To start, we recommend that you:
- Create a WordPress.org user account or log in if you have one already.
- Sign up for an account on Slack using your 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/ user account and join the #coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.-ai channel. This is where we hold all of our regular meetings and chats. Feel free to say hello!
The Core AI team and contributors recommend reading and familiarizing yourself with some of the most relevant discussions, work and concepts for this.
- AI Building Blocks – A high-level overview on the strategy that Core AI has for the WordPress project.
- Project repos: PHP AI Client, Abilities API, MCP Adapter, AI Experiments
- Abilities API Overview (third party) – A great article by a Core AI contributor describing the Abilities 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. in great detail.
- MCP Documentation – Documentation for Model Context Protocol.
- MCP AdapterMCP Adapter Translates WordPress abilities into Model Context Protocol format, allowing AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT to discover and invoke WordPress capabilities as tools, resources, and prompts. 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/ Discussions – The most relevant one is a discussion on how this will be packaged and distributed.
- 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/preface.php Client API Github Discussions – Several great discussions for the PHP client API building 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..
You should also skim the #core-ai 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. The WordPress Project Slack recently had AI features enabled, and using that for a overview is very helpful!
Exploring
A suggestion to get started once you have explored the materials and repos is to start with the AI Experiments. Here you can explore the repo and also join in discussions.
