WordPress
I’ve been part of the WordPress ecosystem for over 20 years, as an agency owner, a founder, a WordCamp organizer, and now as Head of WordPress at Elementor. This is where I write about the community, open source dynamics, what’s happening in the ecosystem, and why it all still matters.
Two scanners graded my site on how usable it is by AI agents. The highest-scoring thing I added was a text file saying my site has no login.
WordPress now has two AI systems that point in opposite directions: one where WordPress calls an AI, and one where an AI calls WordPress. Here’s how each actually works as of WordPress 7.1, and why the Abilities API sitting underneath them is the part that matters.
I gave a talk at WordCamp US about whether WordPress is ready for the agentic web. My answer: core has the plumbing, the plugin ecosystem hasn’t shown up yet, and most of the agent-readiness checklist we’re all chasing does nothing at all right now.
Most agent-readiness advice is about helping agents read your site. Here is what it took to let one actually do something: send me a message through my contact form, using the same endpoint the form itself uses.
When Claude and I were working on building this WordPress site, I was really pleasantly surprised when it made the decision to build the content form using native WordPress functionality…
I don’t only want my site to be agent-ready; I also want it to be generally healthy and optimized for the web overall. So I have a monthly process running…
A conversation about why WordPress core still ships so few AI abilities and the limitations they have got me thinking: why am I making my site fully dependent on Abilities…
When I first built this site, I invested a lot of time in getting it up and running. I figured that would be more or less it for a while,…
I gave this talk at WordCamp Asia 2026. The topic is something I’ve been thinking about: why WordPress’s history of open extensibility is actually a structural advantage in the AI era, not just a nostalgic footnote.
Cloudflare’s EmDash CMS for Astro has some architectural advantages over WordPress. But for the people who actually need to build and run websites, architecture alone isn’t enough.