Automattic shipped a developer preview of a Claude Cowork plugin and a set of Skills that build block themes in WordPress Studio. Here is what the workflow does, where it breaks, and why the theme.json output matters.
How I use Claude Code with WordPress Studio to scaffold plugins: setting up a local site and terminal, installing the CLI, the context a prompt needs, and why the naive admin notice it hands you is an XSS bug waiting to happen.
Agentic AI features need more than a good prompt. These are the patterns I use to keep users in control: intent previews, an autonomy dial, an action audit log with a working undo, and escalation when the model is not confident.
How I set up Claude Code context: local docs and meeting transcripts in a /knowledge folder, a .claudignore that keeps the agent away from secrets, and a bash script that bundles only the files a given feature needs.
Andrew Adetitun had more than 160,000 followers and no platform of his own. He is a former WordPress developer, and he still used the AI website builder to get The King’s Monologue online fast, then pointed it at his Kickstarter book.
A three-step way to point an agent at a broken WordPress site: let it read debug.log, make it write a hook-level plan before it edits anything, then iterate on what it ships.
Ollama 0.14 speaks the Anthropic Messages API, so Claude Code can run against a local model instead of a $200 plan. Here is the setup, the three environment variables it needs, and the git init step that trips people up.
Notes from the February 4 contributor meeting on the WordPress AI Client merge into 7.0: why OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are moving out to separate plugins, why the off switch is a constant rather than a filter, and what MCP adapters mean for the Abilities API.
Notes on the WordPress 7.0 AI integration roadmap: the WP AI Client merge proposal, the GatherPress demo built on the Abilities API, how the native client compares to the MCP adapter, and what has to land before the February 19 Beta 1 deadline.
WordPress.com now has an official Claude Connector built on MCP and OAuth 2.1. It gives Claude read-only access to site data like traffic, comments and content, with no custom REST bridge to maintain. Here is what it can do, how to switch it on, and where it stops.