Teaching WordPress to Talk to AI
AI agents want to do more than just chat – they want to actually interact with our WordPress sites, create content, manage plugins, and analyse data. I've been experimenting extensively with WordPress Model Context Protocol (MCP) and other emerging standards to build these bridges between WordPress and AI, and the results are pretty exciting. Rather than getting caught up in which AI tool will "win," I'll focus on the integration patterns that actually matter: how to make your WordPress site AI-accessible, what development approaches work best, and practical examples of AI-WordPress workflows that you can start experimenting with today.
Anna McPhee
Anna is a full-stack developer at Automattic, building analytics products for WordPress.com, Jetpack, and WooCommerce. With over two decades working with web technologies, she's passionate about making complex data accessible and meaningful to users, and exploring how emerging AI technologies and tools like MCP are reshaping developer workflows. Anna is an active contributor to open source projects and believes in the open web. Before settling in regional Victoria with her partner and their daughter, Anna spent 9 years working remotely while traveling nomadically across 42 countries, experiences that shaped her collaborative, globally-minded approach to technology.