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title: "Build your first AI-Powered WordPress plugin"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-first-ai-powered-wordpress-plugin-kss2sm0my
source_url: https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2026/07/build-your-first-ai-powered-wordpress-plugin
type: article
source: "WordPress Developer"
published: 2026-07-30T17:54:01.863Z
updated: 2026-07-30T17:59:06.864Z
tags: ["ai", "php", "wordpress", "mcp"]
reading_time: 24
upvotes: 4
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# 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.

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