WordPress's AI Roadmap: What the Industry Needs to Know
Mapping WordPress's trajectory toward becoming the platform for the AI-mediated web — and what the ecosystem needs to build with it.
In two years, the web will look fundamentally different. AI agents will handle significant portions of content discovery, site management, and digital operations. The platforms that prepared for this shift will power the AI-mediated web — and WordPress is building to be that platform. This keynote maps the trajectory: from the training-data moat of two decades of web dominance to the active construction of the Abilities API, MCP adoption, and the AI Building Blocks initiative. With WordPress 7.0 on the horizon, it covers what’s coming next — and what the industry needs to figure out together to ensure WordPress captures the opportunity its position has created.