The AI plugin brings 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 AI Client library and Abilities API 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 Classification – Suggests relevant tags and categories to organize content.
- Comment Moderation - Automatically moderate comments based on toxicity detection and sentiment analysis.
- Content Resizing - Shorten, expand, or rephrase selected block content.
- Content Summarization - Summarizes long-form content into digestible overviews.
- Dashboard Widgets - AI Status and AI Capabilities widgets, plus framework for registering new ones.
- 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.
- Guidelines - Allows abilities to respect site-wide editorial standards.
- Image Generation and Editing - Create and edit images from post content in the editor, also via the Media Library.
- Meta Description Generation - Generates meta description suggestions and integrates those with various SEO plugins.
- Multi-Provider Support - Works with popular AI providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
- Refine Notes - Automatically apply editorial notes to content.
- Review Notes - Reviews post content block-by-block and adds Notes with suggestions for Accessibility, Readability, Grammar, and SEO.
- Title Generation - Generate title suggestions for your posts with a single click. Perfect for brainstorming headlines or finding the right tone for your content.
- Comment Moderation - Automatic moderation of comments based on toxicity and sentiment analysis and bulk moderation features in the Comments admin screen.
Coming Soon:
We're actively developing new features to enhance your WordPress workflow:
- Type Ahead – Contextual type-ahead assistance for suggestions while typing.
- AI Request Logging & Observability Dashboard – Track AI requests and visualize performance and cost metrics.
- AI Playground – Experiment with different AI models and providers.
- Content Assistant – AI-powered writing and editing in Gutenberg.
- Site Agent – Natural language WordPress administration.
- Workflow Automation – AI-driven task automation.
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.
0.9.0 - 2026-05-07
Added
- New Experiment: Comment Moderation to automatically moderate comments based on toxicity detection and sentiment analysis (#155, #516).
- New Experiment: Content Resizing to shorten, expand, or rephrase selected block content (#331).
- Developer Mode settings page toggle to set the desired provider and model per feature (#486).
- WP-CLI command,
wp ai alt-text generate, for bulk alt text generation (#436).
- Basic styles for the Content Summary block (#510).
Changed
- Compress the AI settings page by moving the global AI toggle into the header with an infotip (#455).
- Update AI settings page to use
@wordpress/ui components and related UI adjustments (#472, #488, #490, #491, #505, #519).
- AI-generated images are now saved with descriptive, slugified filenames derived from the post title or prompt instead of
ai-generated-image-<timestamp> (#471).
- For image generation, set guidelines as part of the prompt instead of system instructions (#497).
- Update the Content Summary experiment to render the summary in a Group variation block instead of a Paragraph variation block (#510).
Fixed
- Standards compliance switch from the custom
$builder->is_text_generation_supported() method with the abstract ensure_text_generation_supported() method (#465).
- Ability schema JSON viewer now stays LTR under RTL admin languages (#485).
- Ensure the Generate Image button doesn't render in contexts that aren't valid (#489).
- Localize several user-facing fallback error strings in image-generation and summarization flows (#500).
Security
- Bump
serialize-javascript from 6.0.2 to 7.0.5 (#503).
- Bump
postcss from 8.5.10 to 8.5.14 (#503).
- Bump
minimatch from 3.0.8 to 3.1.4 (#503).
0.8.0 - 2026-04-23
Added
- New Experiment: Refine from Notes, automatically apply editorial notes to content (#289).
- AI Status and AI Capabilities dashboard widgets, plus framework for registering new dashboard widgets (#311).
- Integrates Gutenberg's Guidelines allowing abilities to respect site-wide editorial standards (#359).
- Check
wp_supports_ai() before initializing experiments (#268).
- Admin redirect from the old
ai page to the new ai-wp-admin page (#424).
- Set the new
gpt-image-2 model for our preferred model list (#456).
Changed
- Promote Image Generation from an Experiment to a Feature (#418).
- Title Generation now utilizes a modal for editing and regeneration before applying changes to the Post Title (#290).
- Update feature descriptions to include AI provider model supports (#377).
- Update button loading states to match the standard loading pattern (#382, #389, #396, #433, #449).
- Refactor
Main bootstrap class (#404).
- Allow bulk enabling/disabling Experiments in groups (#422).
- Improve visual hierarchy on the AI settings page so card titles are more prominent than the toggle labels (#431).
- Reduce the context we send when running Review Notes to decrease the amount of tokens used (#434).
- Refactor
strpos to str_starts_with and str_contains (#438).
- Render Review Notes only on post types that support
editor.notes (#444).
- Improve accessibility of the Meta Description modal: inline "Copied!" confirmation on the copy button and accessibleWhenDisabled on disabled controls (#445).
- Refactor
Asset_Loader class and add error checking when dependencies are missing (#458).
Removed
- Remove references to DALL·E image models (#414).
Fixed
- Excerpt and Title generation no longer include conversational preambles, wrapper quotes, markdown, or meta-commentary when using smaller language models (#440).
- Defer failed
Requirements messages until translation functions are available (#453).
0.7.0 - 2026-04-09
- Added: New Experiment: Content Classification to generate taxonomy terms based on post content (#313).
- Added: New Experiment: SEO Descriptions that provides AI-generated meta description support (#318).
- Added: Added a bulk "Generate Alt Text" action to Media Library to generate alt text for multiple images at once (#330).
- Added: Added Category filtering to the Abilities table to improve organization and discoverability (#355).
- Added: Added extensibility hooks for customizing system instructions, and post context during AI operations (#304).
- Added: Added a new
wpai_has_ai_credentials filter to allow 3rd parties to modify the credential detection logic, for instance to support non-API-key connectors to report their configured status (#337).
- Changed: Adjust Alt Text Generation to better align with the W3C Alt Text decision tree guidance (#374).
- Changed: Updated AI settings page leveraging modern
wp-build DataForm route (#340, #376).
- Changed: Revised Feature and Experiment Lifecycle and other documentation updates (#326, #329).
- Changed: Update some of our system instructions to prompt the LLM to return content in the same language as the original content they were given (#357).
- Changed: Updated end-to-end tests to resolve flaky failures and account for markup changes in the Connectors screen (#360).
- Changed: Updated preferred models to more recent ones for the three default providers (#361).
- Changed: Updated provider compatibility checks to use the AI Client's built-in
is_supported_* methods for improved validation and error reporting (#362).
- Changed: Updated the PR preview workflow to use a preferred WordPress version for improved consistency during testing (#366).
- Changed: Switch to using a
Button component instead of a ToolbarButton component within the Title Generation Experiment when in normal editing mode (non-template mode) (#375).
- Removed: Unneeded
function_exists checks (#378).
- Fixed: Improved error messages when Image Generation or Editing fails due to incompatible providers (#332).
- Fixed: Fixed an issue where Title Generation could fail when using the Anthropic provider (#341).
- Fixed: Invalid schema type in the summarization ability that prevented proper execution in some environments (#347).
- Fixed: Fixed an issue where the Generate Alt Text button could appear when an Image block was not selected, particularly when working with Patterns (#356).
- Fixed: Fixed an issue where repeated calls to load system instructions could return empty content (#358).
- Fixed: Fixed an issue where retrieving post content did not always return the most recently edited version (#367).
0.6.0 - 2026-03-20
There are Breaking Changes in this release.
- Breaking Changes: Refactor
Experiments to be a type of Feature, improving how functionality is organized and surfaced (#316).
The following classes have been removed. Anyone that was directly using these will need to make updates to utilize the correct replacements:
Abstract_Experiment,
Invalid_Experiment_Metadata_Exception,
Invalid_Experiment_Exception,
Experiment_Loader,
Experiment_Registry.
- Breaking Changes: Standardize the Title Generation Ability to align with other registered Abilities (#227).
The
ai/title-generation Ability now uses a
context argument instead of a
post_id argument in the
input_schema. Anyone directly using this Ability will need to make updates to account for that.
- Added: New Experiment: Image Editing via prompt-based image refining in the Post Editor and Media Library (#292).
- Added: New Experiment: Image Editing via expanding or removing background and removing or replacing items in the Media Libary (#305, #312).
- Changed: Rename the plugin from "AI Experiments" to "AI" (#287).
- Changed: Replace
Invalid_Experiment_Exception with _doing_it_wrong() (#303).
- Changed: Rename hook prefixes in
helpers.php (#315).
- Changed: Rename plugin constants to
WPAI_* (#317).
- Changed: Refactor the upgrade routine and add v0.6.0 migrations (#321).
- Changed: Move the Generate Alt Text button to the new Content tab for improved discoverability (#306).
- Changed: Remove stray "AI" references from UI for improved consistency (#320).
- Changed: Update documentation (#314).
- Fixed: Remove duplicate error display in the Generate Alt Text flow (#255).
0.5.0 - 2026-03-12
- Added: Switch to using AI Client bundled in WordPress 7.0 (#275, #301).
- Changed: Bump WordPress minimum supported version from 6.9 to 7.0 (#272).
- Changed: Bump WordPress tested-up-to version 7.0 (#272).
- Changed: Migrate credentials from the AI Credentials to the new Connectors screen (#286).
- Changed: Improve documentation and plugin assets (#280, #281, #291, #293, #296).
- Removed: No longer using AI Client via Composer package (#271).
0.4.1 - 2026-03-06
- Fixed: Issues with 0.4.0 release merge and deploy (#266).
0.4.0 - 2026-03-05
- Added: Inline Image Generation directly in the post editor, enabling users to generate images without leaving authoring/editing flows (#235).
- Added: Generate Image within the Media Library with prompt-based image generation workflows (#258).
- Added: Generate Review Notes experiment to analyze post content or individual blocks and suggest refinements via Notes comments in the editor (#260, #267).
- Added: Split editor and admin experiments within the settings page (#232).
- Added: Contextual help text to the Abilities Explorer screen to assist users in understanding what Abilities are and how to use them (#243).
- Changed: Update “Generate Summary” button style to use consistent UI with other buttons in the ediot (#253).
- Changed: Standardize Abilities invocation using the
runAbility helper to improve consistency across API calls (#228).
- Changed: Make provider labels in the Abilities Explorer translatable and adjust badge styling for clarity (#247).
- Changed: Improve Abilities Explorer table layout by aligning spacing and styles with WordPress admin table conventions (#248).
- Changed: Improve the Ability test page with better internationalization and add copy-to-clipboard functionality (#256).
- Removed: Remove unused checkbox column from the Abilities Explorer table, as it was not tied to any bulk actions (#246).
- Fixed: Fix the position and behavior of the “Copy” button in code blocks within the Abilities Explorer (#245).
Older changelog entries can be found in the
CHANGELOG.md file.