⚡ Crawl, Walk, Press

In 30 days you’ll safely build real AI-powered WordPress workflows — drafting, metadata, internal linking, and a demo you can actually ship. Whatever you publish on WordPress. Hands-on, about 15 minutes a day.

Start the course → Day 0

Just want to try it first? Jump to Day 1 — no setup needed →

4 weeks · 30 exercises · ~15 min/day · free & open-source · no coding required to start

What you’ll have in 30 days

Not theory — a set of working artifacts your team keeps and reuses long after Day 30.

  • ✅ A safe sandbox — a local Studio site and a Playground you can break without risk
  • ✅ A live AI connection to WordPress via MCP
  • ✅ A reusable prompt library tuned to your site
  • ✅ A repeatable content workflow you can run every week
  • ✅ An AI usage policy your team actually agrees on
  • ✅ A measurement scorecard to show impact
  • ✅ A demo script to walk leadership through what’s now possible
  • ✅ The judgment to know what to hand AI — and what to keep human

Your 30 Days of Training

Each week builds on the last. Start with installation, end with a team demo.

Week 1: Get the Stack →

Install & explore Playground, Studio (Desktop) + Studio Code, Telex, Claude + MCP, and the WordPress AI plugin. Finish with a toolkit map and safe testing setup.

Week 2: Connect & Create →

Wire the tools into publishing workflows. Finish with a site profile, reusable prompts, newsletter draft, and metadata workflow.

Week 3: Content Workflows →

Build repeatable operations: content repurposing, taxonomy cleanup, performance audits, content planning, and internal links.

Week 4: Ship & Scale →

Package the work for your team: policy, playbook, prompt library, impact report, and live demo.

The exercises follow a newsroom as a running example — swap in your own content type (products, courses, campaigns); the tools and workflow are identical.

What you’ll need

Start with nothing but a browser. Add the rest only when an exercise calls for it — and if you can’t install something or don’t have an API key, every step has a fallback.

🌐 To start
Just a browser — Playground, Telex, and copy-paste with the free Claude.ai.

🔗 Partway in
A WordPress.com account unlocks Studio Code (no API key) and the built-in MCP.

💻 Going deeper
Install Studio Desktop for a local site; add your own API key only for a specific provider.

Blocked on a step? Each day has a 🔓 browser-only or copy-paste fallback, and the FAQ spells them out.

The WordPress AI Stack

The seven tools you’ll learn — here for reference. No need to grab them now; each day introduces what it needs.

🔌 Abilities API

Available for WordPress 6.9+ and built into 7.0 core. A registry of capabilities that AI agents can discover and invoke — the foundation that makes WordPress legible to AI. Developer docs →

🔗 WordPress MCP

Model Context Protocol connects AI agents like Claude to your WordPress site. Read posts, create drafts, manage content — all through natural language. Built into WordPress.com on paid plans; write tools stay off until you enable them. Setup guide →

💻 Studio Code

AI-powered coding agent built on Claude Code, tuned for WordPress — in Studio Desktop and the Studio CLI, free in beta. Builds themes from descriptions, validates blocks, runs performance audits. Learn more →

🎮 Playground

Full WordPress in your browser via WebAssembly. No server, no install, no risk. Has its own MCP server for AI agent integration. Your risk-free testing lab. Try it →

📊 WordPress AI plugin

Official experimental plugin from WordPress.org (v1.0.2) — the reference implementation for the AI Building Blocks. Ships the Abilities Explorer plus title/excerpt/alt-text and image generation, editorial notes, comment moderation, and request logging. Requires WP 7.0+ and a separate AI connector (Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google) with an API key. Get the plugin →

🧪 Telex

Automattic AI Labs’ natural language builder. Describe a WordPress block or theme in plain English — Telex generates it as a downloadable plugin or theme. Generated code is a starting point; review before production. Try it →

🤖 AI Client (WP 7.0 core)

A provider-agnostic PHP SDK built into WordPress 7.0 core (shipped May 20, 2026). Lets any plugin call Claude, OpenAI, or Gemini through one consistent API. Providers aren’t bundled — you add an official connector plugin for Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google. Announcement →

Built with WordPress to help anyone master the WordPress AI stack. Questions? FAQ →