AI Experiments

The WordPress AI Experiments plugin brings experimental AI-powered features directly into your WordPress admin and editing experience.

What’s Inside:

This plugin is built on the AI Building Blocks for WordPress initiative, combining the WP AI Client SDK, Abilities API, and MCP Adapter into a unified experience. It serves as both a practical tool for content creators and a reference implementation for developers.

Current Features:

• Title Generation – Generate title suggestions for your posts with a single click. Perfect for brainstorming headlines or finding the right tone for your content.
• Excerpt Generation – Automatically create concise summaries for your posts.
• Experiment Framework – Opt-in system that lets you enable only the AI features you want to use.
• Multi-Provider Support – Works with popular AI providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
• Abilities Explorer – Browse and interact with registered AI abilities from a dedicated admin screen.

Coming Soon:

We’re actively developing new features to enhance your WordPress workflow:

• Image Generation – Create images from text prompts directly in the block editor.
• Alt Text Generation – Generate descriptive alt text for images to improve accessibility.
• Content Summarization – Quickly summarize long-form content.
• Contextual Tagging – AI-suggested tags and categories to organize your content.
• Comment Moderation – AI-assisted moderation tools to help classify or manage user comments.
• AI Playground – Experiment with different AI models and prompts.
• Extended Providers – Support for experimenting with additional or alternate AI providers.
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) – Integrate and test Model Context Protocol capabilities in WordPress workflows.
• AI Request Logging & Observability Dashboard – Track AI requests and visualize performance and cost metrics.
• Type Ahead – Contextual type-ahead assistance for suggestions while typing.
• Date Calculation Ability – Natural-language date interpretation for AI workflows like “every 3rd Tuesday.”

This is an experimental plugin; functionality may change as we gather feedback from the community.

Roadmap:

You can view the active plugin roadmap in a filtered view in the WordPress AI GitHub Project Board.

For Developers

The AI Experiments plugin is designed to be studied, extended, and built upon. Whether you’re a plugin developer, agency, or hosting provider, here’s what you can do:

Extend the Plugin:

• Build Custom Experiments – Use the Abstract_Experiment base class to create your own AI-powered features
• Register Custom Abilities – Hook into the Abilities API to add new AI capabilities
• Override Default Behavior – Use filters to customize prompts, responses, and UI elements
• Pre-configure Providers – Hosts and agencies can set up AI providers so users don’t need their own API keys
• Abilities Explorer – Test and explore registered AI abilities (available when experiments are enabled)

Developer Tools Coming Soon:

• MCP Demo – See how Model Context Protocol integration works with WordPress
• Comprehensive Hooks – Filters and actions throughout the codebase for customization

Get Started:

1. Read the Contributing Guide for development setup
2. Join the conversation in #core-ai on WordPress Slack
3. Browse the GitHub repository to see how experiments are built
4. Participate in discussions on how best the plugin should iterate.

We welcome contributions! Whether you want to build new experiments, improve existing features, or help with documentation, check out our GitHub repository to get involved.