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:
- Abilities Explorer – Browse and interact with registered AI abilities from a dedicated admin screen.
- Alt Text Generation - Generate descriptive alt text for images to improve accessibility.
- Content Summarization - Summarizes long-form content into digestible overviews.
- 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.
- Image Generation - Create feature image from post content directly in the block editor.
- Multi-Provider Support - Works with popular AI providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
- Title Generation - Generate title suggestions for your posts with a single click. Perfect for brainstorming headlines or finding the right tone for your content.
Coming Soon:
We're actively developing new features to enhance your WordPress workflow:
- Contextual Tagging - AI-suggested tags and categories to organize your content.
- Comment Moderation – AI-assisted moderation tools to help classify or manage user comments.
- Type Ahead – Contextual type-ahead assistance for suggestions while typing.
- AI Request Logging & Observability Dashboard – Track AI requests and visualize performance and cost metrics.
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.
0.3.1 - 2026-02-18
- Fixed: Increased image generation request timeout from 30s to 90s to reduce failed generations on slower providers/models (#226).
0.3.0 - 2026-02-09
- Added: Content Summarization Experiment, allowing authors to generate and store AI-powered summaries directly in the post editor (#147).
- Added: Featured Image Generation Experiment, enabling AI-generated featured images from the editor sidebar with optional alt text and AI attribution metadata (#146).
- Added: Alt Text Generation Experiment, supporting images within Image blocks and Media Library workflows (#156).
- Added: “Experiments” and “Credentials” quick action links to the Installed Plugins screen for faster configuration (#206).
- Changed: Replace the global “Enable Experiments” checkbox with an auto-submitting enable/disable button to reduce friction when toggling experiments (#168).
- Fixed: Improve robustness of asset loading to handle missing or invalid built files and prevent admin and editor warnings (#175).
- Fixed: Add missing strict typing declarations in the Abilities Explorer to ensure consistency and correctness (#208).
- Developer: Streamline and clarify Contributor and Developer documentation to improve onboarding and reduce duplication (#169).
- Developer: Fix inline documentation issues, including missing
@global tags, non-standard hook tags, and incomplete @return descriptions (#207, #210).
- Developer: Bump
phpunit/phpunit from 9.6.31 to 9.6.33 as part of ongoing test and tooling maintenance (#209).
- Developer: Expand and align allowed open source licenses in dependency configuration to better match Gutenberg and ecosystem tooling (#212, #213, #214).
0.2.1 - 2026-01-26
- Added: Introduced a shared
AI_Service layer to standardize provider access across experiments (#101).
- Changed: Documentation updates (#195).
- Fixed: Guarded against
preg_replace() returning null to prevent content corruption in normalize_content() (#177).
- Security: Change our user permission checks to use
edit_post instead of read_post (GHSA-mxf5-gp98-93wv).
- Security: Bumped
diff from 4.0.2 to 4.0.4 (#196).
- Security: Bumped
lodash-es from 4.17.22 to 4.17.23 (#198).
- Security: Bumped
lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.17.23 (#199).
0.2.0 – 2026-01-20
- Added: Core excerpt generation support for AI-powered summaries, including a new Excerpt Generation Experiment with editor UI (#96, #143).
- Added: Abilities Explorer — a new admin screen to view and interact with registered AI abilities in the plugin (#63).
- Added: Introduce foundational backend support for Content Summarization and Image Generation experiments (API-only; no UI yet) (#134, #136).
- Added: Improve plugin documentation and onboarding with expanded WP.org readme content (#135).
- Added: Add Playground preview support to build and PR workflows using the official WordPress action (#144).
- Changed: Rely on the Abilities API bundled with WordPress 6.9 and remove the previously bundled dependency (minimum WP version updated) (#107).
- Changed: Reorganize Playground blueprints and update demo paths to align with WordPress.org conventions (#137).
- Changed: Improve and clarify plugin documentation, descriptions, screenshots, and in-context messaging (#69, #158, #161, #162, #164).
- Changed: Update and align runtime and development dependencies, including
preact, qs, express, and React overrides (#165, #166, #171).
- Changed: Replace custom Plugin Check setup with the official GitHub workflow for more reliable enforcement (#139).
- Fixed: Resolve UI and messaging issues on the AI Experiments settings screen (#130, #132).
- Fixed: Ensure AI Experiments are visible even when no credentials are configured (#173).
- Fixed: Fix Plugin Check, linting, and CI failures introduced by updated tooling and workflows (#150, #163, #167, #176).
- Developer: Cleanup and standardize scaffold, linting, TypeScript, and CI configuration to better align with WordPress Coding Standards (#172).
0.1.1 - 2025-12-01
- Added: Link to the plugin settings screen from the plugin list table (#98).
- Added: WordPress Playground live preview integration (#85).
- Added: RTL language support and inlining for performance (#113).
- Changed: Updated namespace to
ai_experiments (#111).
- Changed: Bumped WP AI Client from
dev-trunk to 0.2.0 (#118, #122, #125).
- Removed: Valid AI credentials check from the Experiment
is_enabled check (#120).
- Removed: Example Experiment registration (#121).
- Fixed: Bug in asset loader causing missing dependencies (#113).
- Security: Bumped
js-yaml from 3.14.1 to 3.14.2 (#105).
0.1.0 - 2025-11-26
First public release of the AI Experiments plugin, introducing a framework for exploring experimental AI-powered features in WordPress. 🎉
- Added: Experiment registry and loader system for managing AI features
- Added: Abstract experiment base class for consistent feature development
- Added: Experiment: Title Generation
- Added: Basic admin settings screen with toggle support
- Added: Initial integration with WP AI Client SDK and Abilities API
- Added: Utilities Ability for common AI tasks and testing