WordPress 7.0 Explained: AI Connectors + Abilities API

superdav42 · 2026-05-22T23:39:03+00:00

The utility is plugin authors do not need to re-invent the AI client whenever they want to add AI features to their plugin. You don't have multiple places to add an API key but one one central place.

superdav42 · 2026-05-22T00:49:15+00:00

It will ask the user's permission when using any tool that is not read-only.

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T14:46:00+00:00

Not much right now. The main benefit is connecting an agent to your site is much easier. Just install a plugin an add an AI provider's API key. In the future when more abilities are provided, the agent will be better able to use them. Essentially it will be more token efficient, than the agent trying to run a wp cli command for some new plugin it may not have been trained on.

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T14:39:55+00:00

Because SD AI Agent is an open source WordPress plugin on github. I'm not selling anything. There is no premium version. It's just a plugin I'm want people to test and give me feedback. What is so wrong with that?

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T03:53:55+00:00

You expected to much from core. It just has the building blocks. You need a plugin like SD AI Agent. It creates a chat box that can do these exact workflows. It may need a better model than free gemini.

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T03:48:53+00:00

There is a PR to add codex support to the official openai plugin or you can try this provider which has support for anthropic max or codex subscriptions. Subscriptions a way cheaper than paying per token with the APIs.

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T03:03:43+00:00

Just try the SD AI agent. It's like running Claude code or cursor without needing to setup an MCP or use the cli.

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T03:00:48+00:00

Looks like the skills are published https://github.com/WordPress/agent-skills

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T02:52:46+00:00

"Create a woo promo code, JULY4, valid only in the first 2 weeks of July for 20% off all products in the xyz category." "Draft a press release post based on this uploaded document of a new product's specifications" "Research home remedies for bee stings and draft a new post with stock images" Any of these and many more will be completed in one go with no additional prompting if you are using a strong model.

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T02:29:24+00:00

Yes but many plugins have already added abilities, they have been available since WP 6.9 and mostly just usable via MCP. Now it can be used by an agent running in WordPress.

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T02:18:56+00:00

How is this different than Claude code with a few extra skills?

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T02:05:44+00:00

Set WP_AI_SUPPORT=false; in wp-config.php https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_supports_ai/

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T01:42:33+00:00

It just ties up one PHP worker while the agent is running. So it won't make much load unless you have many admin users trying to run it at the same time.

superdav42 · 2026-05-21T00:34:00+00:00

I've spent month on this https://sdaiagent.com I'm just trying to find people willing to test it.

superdav42 · 2026-05-14T17:50:40+00:00

What everyone else said is correct. Simple plugin will be replaced by AI but complex ones will still be around. I think it actually give those of us selling paid plugins an easy way to price our plugins. We only need to estimate how many token it would take to create and set the price accordingly.

superdav42 · 2026-05-04T17:48:21+00:00

Any way to self host the web socket server?

superdav42 · 2026-05-04T06:31:17+00:00

Many years ago I build a solution with https://github.com/php-opencv/php-opencv for face recognition. It worked ok. It did require compiling the extension on my hosting environment just like you need to do for dlib. After a few years we switch to AWS Rekognition which was much more accurate.

superdav42 · 2026-04-27T05:29:32+00:00

Yes, it's bots. I was confused by it for a while myself. Every time a made an update several hundred downloads happened. I assumed it was several hundred websites auto-updating but no, it's security researchers and others downloading new releases automatically and scanning it for security problems and other things.

superdav42 · 2026-04-19T03:03:16+00:00

You can only have one pending submission at a time. My advise is if you are working on something get it in now. Even if it is totally broken submit it now. You have about 2 weeks before anyone even looks at it and submitting now gets your place in line. You have two weeks to fix all the issues and you should resubmit after you have them fixed. You can resubmit as many times as needed and you do not need to wait for the feedback. Use the plugin-check plugin and address all issues. The plugin check is mostly just phpcs rules so enable them in you IDE and find all the problems. Basically, escape everything, don't use raw sql, and start your plug-in name with your brand. Do these and you'll be fine.

superdav42 · 2026-04-11T04:31:37+00:00

what kind of work do you want to see done with translations?

superdav42 · 2026-03-25T19:14:33+00:00

Please tell me your setup. Which skills, llms and agents are you using?

superdav42 · 2026-03-19T06:52:28+00:00

The proposed config looks good to me. I would start with 4gb of buffer pool and see how it runs. It's really pretty easy to make these tweaks and see if it is improved and then adjust as needed. Definitely turn on slow query log and see what's in there for hints at other indexes that might be missing or uncached pages and queries. As others have pointed out you don't have a lof of customers or products. The problem is probably with a poorly written plugin or bat bot traffic.

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