--- title: Build your first AI-Powered WordPress plugin | daily.dev description: A step-by-step guide to building an AI-powered WordPress plugin called 'Photo to Post' using three WordPress Core AI building blocks: the Abilities API, the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-first-ai-powered-wordpress-plugin-kss2sm0my twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Build your first AI-Powered WordPress plugin | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to building an AI-powered WordPress plugin called 'Photo to Post' using three WordPress Core AI building blocks: the Abilities API, the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-first-ai-powered-wordpress-plugin-kss2sm0my og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kSs2sm0my.png og:image:alt: Build your first AI-Powered WordPress plugin og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Build your first AI-Powered WordPress plugin **[WordPress Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/wordpressdev)** · 24 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to building an AI-powered WordPress plugin called 'Photo to Post' using three WordPress Core AI building blocks: the Abilities API, the WordPress AI Client, and the MCP Adapter. The plugin takes an image URL, uses a vision AI model to describe it, generates a blog post from that description, and creates a draft post with the image as the featured image. The tutorial covers registering composable Abilities in PHP, making provider-agnostic AI calls via the WordPress AI Client, composing abilities together, wiring up a JavaScript admin UI using the Abilities JS API, and exposing the functionality to AI agents via MCP — all without writing separate code for each interface. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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