WordPress 7.0 will include the Abilities API, MCP Adapter, and the WP AI Client interface which can be used together for plugin, theme, and content creation.

Over on the Make blog the first AI guidelines for WordPress have been published. The idea is to set expectations on the use of AI in contributing.

Here is an interesting article from Dries, leader of the Drupal project, about the challenges or AI for project maintainers and the approach that Drupal is taking. It was interesting to note that in the case of finding security issues, that when used by experienced developers AI increased productivity, but when used by inexperienced devs it put a large burden on maintainers to investigate phantom security issues.

The AI team has introduced a tool to evaluate how well an AI understands WordPress. It is in its early stages, so it is not super complete, but can be useful in the future for gauging AI models for use.

There are some good insights in this thought piece by Chris Lema. Code abstraction is nothing new. Do you want to be in the front driving, or in the back complaining?

This is an interesting article by Chris Lema about unexpected and emergent behaviors in AI. It has been documented across AI models that they adapt their behavior depending on if they are being evaluated or deployed, without being programmed to do so.

A discussion of the State of the Word event, AI in WordPress and Elementor, and the future directions of Elementor.

The WordPress AI team is going to release an AI Experiments plugin to expose some new AI features being added as well as to enable several experiments: the generation of excerpts, images, and image alt text.

A switch like this would mean significantly change how brands drive visibility and traffic online.