Introducing the new Elementor MCP
Elementor’s official MCP lets the AI tool you already use build and manage Elementor pages on your WordPress site. Here’s what an MCP actually is, why it matters for WordPress, and how to get started.
thoughts & learnings
Writing
I write about open source, WordPress, community building, AI, and whatever else is on my mind. I prefer long form over punchy takes — if I'm writing something down, it's because I think it's worth more than a sentence.
My site got 100 in Vercel’s Is Agentic agent-ready scoring tool – here’s how
Two scanners graded my site on how usable it is by AI agents. The highest-scoring thing I added was a text file saying my site has no login.
WordPress Core AI in Practice: From the Abilities API to Claude as an Agent
WordPress now has two AI systems that point in opposite directions: one where WordPress calls an AI, and one where an AI calls WordPress. Here’s how each actually works as of WordPress 7.1, and why the Abilities API sitting underneath them is the part that matters.
WordPress is ready for the agentic web, but our ecosystem isn’t
I gave a talk at WordCamp US about whether WordPress is ready for the agentic web. My answer: core has the plumbing, the plugin ecosystem hasn’t shown up yet, and most of the agent-readiness checklist we’re all chasing does nothing at all right now.