Artificial intelligence tools, integrations, and how AI is changing web development and business.
AI is changing how websites get built, how search works, and how businesses interact with customers online. It's moving fast, and separating the useful tools from the hype takes work. Not every AI feature is worth adopting, and some create more problems than they solve.
We write about AI from the website owner's perspective: CMS integrations, AI-powered search, content generation tools, and the infrastructure changes happening underneath. Grounded analysis for UK businesses trying to make smart decisions about AI adoption.
WordPress is turning from software humans drive into software AI agents can inspect and operate. Giving an agent access without backups, permissions, logs and easy rollback is like giving a very enthusiastic apprentice the server password and going to lunch. Here is what changed in WordPress 7.0, what goes wrong, and what AI-ready WordPress hosting actually needs to include.
Some managed WordPress hosts now block AI crawlers by default, silently, and that can quietly cut your site out of AI search. Here is the case against blanket blocking, our own 19-day crawler log showing which AI bots actually read a real site, and how to set it up properly at the infrastructure layer.
WordPress 7.0 launched on 20 May 2026 without real-time collaboration, which Matt Mullenweg pulled on 8 May. Here's what shipped, what got cut, and our hands-on findings from running RC5 on two of our own sites for the 24 hours before launch.
The plugin once called AI Experiments hit a stable 1.0 and jumped from 7 features to 18. We reinstalled it at 1.0.1 on WordPress 7.0, added the three provider plugins for Claude, Gemini and OpenAI, and tested everything: the editorial tools, alt text, comment moderation, and the two new governance features that matter most if you run client sites.
The web has seen this pattern twice before: robots.txt in 1994, sitemaps in 2005. AI Discovery Files are at that same early stage. 99.7% of UK websites have none deployed. Here's what they are, why they matter, and how to get started.
I installed WordPress 7 Beta 2 on a staging server and went looking for the AI. What I found was both less exciting and more important than I expected. Here's what the Connectors page actually does, with code examples.
