WordPress is exploring AI integration, do you have any good suggestions?
WordPress contributors are still discussing how artificial intelligence can be integrated into the WordPress ecosystem, whether at the core or as a plug-in.
There are currently no plans to add AI to the core of WordPress. These discussions are just the starting point. It can be said to turn on the lights and see what there is.
Some contributors have stepped forward to share their opinions, and although the discussion has just begun, important points have been raised.

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Plug-in or core integration
One thing agreed on at this point is that integration of artificial intelligence may be best done through external plug-ins rather than hard-coded into the WordPress core itself.
Matt Cromwell shared his concern that current WordPress plans are crowded with projects that need to be completed, and adding AI to that load could distract attention and reduce the workload of existing projects.
But he also agreed that it would be wise to talk about artificial intelligence at this point.
He wrote:
“How much will this project cost to achieve AI integration?
……I find it difficult to imagine pursuing the current roadmap and adding huge AI integrations in a superior and stable way.
…Since all current AI options require integration with third-party systems, some kind of pricing and authentication, I think this is clearly the plug-in realm.
Dreaming about what AI-driven WordPress would look like is an interesting exercise, but at this early stage of AI, I think it’s best to let the plug-in ecosystem innovate so that Core can focus on more basic features that need to be improved…”
Diagnosis AI co-pilot
Ollie Jones provides excellent use of AI in the context of keeping the WordPress website running.
They suggest integrating AI to diagnose co-pilots, which can identify problems (presumably plug-in conflicts) and provide steps to take.
Ollie wrote:
“This is the AI feature I want to see: providing backtracking and error messages to the AI and saying,’Hey AI, what’s wrong here? Suggest some ways to solve the problem.
If this plays even a minimal role in the question of “what’s wrong?”, WordPress users will love it.”
Good idea. How cool would it be if AI could detect whether two plug-ins conflict and potentially cause the website to crash?
It would be useful if AI could take steps to block problematic code, keep the site running, and send messages that display about it.
If artificial intelligence is an assistant, assisting with daily publishing and development tasks seems to be a useful technology application that doesn’t take anyone’s job away.
AI WordPress team member
Another person, robglidden, had similar views on AI just this time as a user of the collaborative team.
The comment refers to the third phase of a four-phase plan to modernize WordPress using Gutenberg.
WordPress is currently in the second of four planning phases, with the third focusing on collaboration.
Examples of Phase 3 highlights:
- real-time collaboration
Create a UI and infrastructure to accommodate multiple team members to customize your website simultaneously. - asynchronous collaboration
The ability to share drafts, comments, and comments - release process
This incorporates editing capabilities, such as steps, goals, and prerequisites, into the content creation and publishing workflow.
The third phase, which will begin later in 2023, has many other highlights.
Rogliden wrote:
“I recommend treating AI chatbots as (” just another “) user type in the upcoming Phase 3 collaboration/workflow.
I want to equip my multi-user collaboration team with an AI chatbot in Phase 3 of WordPress.
In the multi-user collaboration workflows already described in “Phase 3 Collaboration”, it seems that basically the same infrastructure should work for both human users and AI “users.”
Indeed, reading the document treating “users”,”collaborators” and “creators” as robot users, assigning and performing tasks in the workflow is not a big deal…”
Artificial intelligence has been integrated with WordPress
James LePage, founder of AI SaaS company CodeWP, made an eye-opening contribution.
It is a plug-in that provides an AI code generator plug-in specifically used for WordPress development.
According to the CodeWP website, the plug-in can generate WordPress specific code at the PHP, JavaScript and WooCommerce levels.
Although it promises to reduce the need for expensive developers, it seems to be a useful product for developers themselves and can help them become more productive.
James LePage writes:
“To me, this seems to be the reliable plug-in area;1-AI will always require computing, which means third-party services, which I think has moved that out of the core scope, and 2-we really don’t need anything special to integrate AI.
I am the founder of one of WP’s only AI SaaS products, and we are building a plug-in to help integrate our services with various sites.
We also work with existing code fragment plug-ins.
We really don’t need a core to help with this plug-in, we can add all the features we need by leveraging existing features/functions.”
James made an interesting point about AI integration with WordPress because integration already exists.
There are at least 3 SEOs and 1 AI integrated content optimization plug-in:
- All in One SEO (AIOSEO)
- Rank Math
- SEOPress
- WordLift WordPress plugin
RankMath has an AI content assistant function called Content AI. Rank Math’s Content AI provides SEO-focused content improvement suggestions, including which titles to use.
Both SEOPress and AIOSEO provide programmatic title element and description meta tag generation through integration with OpenAI
All three AI integrations require paid upgrades. They are examples of how artificial intelligence fits into the WordPress ecosystem.
Finally, WordLift is a content optimization plug-in that also integrates AI.
To some extent, WordPress already includes AI integration, which shows the value of a third-party plug-in ecosystem that can innovate quickly.
WordPress keeps pace with AI
It’s encouraging to see WordPress discussing how to use technology to keep WordPress moving forward and prevent it from falling behind.
While this is just the beginning of a conversation, many current innovations (such as the WordPress Performance Team) also start with such conversations.
What kind of AI would you like to see integrated into WordPress?
Any ideas? Share them in official discussions WordPress:
Let’s talk about: WordPress Core and Artificial Intelligence