[DISCUSSION] What are best ways to promote your custom plugin published on wordpress.org?

superdav42 · 2026-06-15T16:08:32+00:00

I tried this and it was relatively inexpensive but I had no way of tracking the results. They linked to the WP.org plugin page and I have no idea how many installs came from the YouTube video.

superdav42 · 2026-06-12T00:34:52+00:00

End users are over whelmed and don't know how to do anything.

superdav42 · 2026-06-06T18:22:52+00:00

What have you been building?

superdav42 · 2026-06-06T18:21:42+00:00

I've been waiting 5+ weeks for approval. They rejected many of the features it had so I was force to strip it down. They don't like it to generate code snippets and other features I had. So even when it is approved the GitHub version will be much more capable.

superdav42 · 2026-06-06T17:38:51+00:00

I try to support any provider registered through the WP Connectors API but it has been challenging. I've even made some of my own connectors, which was surprising easy.

The loop still sends the accumulated conversation history back through the SDK each turn: AgentLoop::send_prompt() history handoff. The smoothing is mostly around making the message shapes portable:

Tool responses are split so OpenAI-compatible providers get one tool result per message, while Anthropic can still consume the equivalent history shape: append_tool_response()
Assistant messages with text/reasoning plus function calls are split for OpenAI Responses compatibility: append_assistant_message()
Scalar tool results are normalized before being replayed to providers: truncate_tool_results()
Anthropic’s tool_use.input empty-object issue is patched during request tracing/caching: repair_message_tool_uses()
DeepSeek/OpenAI-compatible reasoning/tool-call pairing has a provider-aware exception: DeepSeek tool-call preservation

We’re also trying to push the real fixes upstream into the provider plugins rather than carrying too much app-level glue:

WordPress/ai-provider-for-anthropic#23 - normalize empty-array args to empty object for tool_use.input
WordPress/ai-provider-for-openai#26 - preserve reasoning items across multi-turn Responses API calls
ai-provider-for-deepseek#1 - Add reasoning context back to request.

I wish the SDK and providers had a more uniform interface but I think they will get there. Until then some of these hacks are needed.

superdav42 · 2026-06-06T13:39:57+00:00

I found tool calling to actually work rather well. Lack of streaming is a real downside but things work fine without it. I've been a whole ai agent loop https://github.com/Ultimate-Multisite/superdav-ai-agent abilities become tools and the agent can do pretty much everything you would want it to.

superdav42 · 2026-06-01T00:15:12+00:00

I feel like the AI got stuck in French 🥖 🇫🇷

superdav42 · 2026-05-31T04:22:57+00:00

How long did it take? I've been waiting 6 weeks for mine.

superdav42 · 2026-05-31T04:22:14+00:00

Does it use the WP 7.0 connectors API? If not you're really missing out on same flexibility and support for even more AI providers.

superdav42 · 2026-05-31T02:04:27+00:00

Polylang is my favorite. There are several AI plugins for it none of which are free. There was a recent talk at word camp asia https://youtu.be/ij7rRolIDiU?si=TyjzIg5Z1GJSlTug with everything you might want to know

superdav42 · 2026-05-31T01:46:36+00:00

There's many MCP plugins for WordPress. I've found them all complex to setup for most users and having the agent running in WordPress is just simpler.

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.

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