WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site

Source: Slashdot

WordPress AI Assistant Overview

WordPress has started rolling out an AI assistant built into its site editor and media library that can:

• Edit and translate text
• Generate and edit images using Google’s Nano Banana model
• Make structural changes to sites, such as creating new pages or swapping fonts (see the TechCrunch article)

Users can invoke the assistant by tagging @ai in block notes, a commenting feature added to the site editor in the December WordPress 6.9 update. The tool is opt‑in—users must toggle AI tools in their site settings—though sites originally created with WordPress’s AI website builder (launched last year) have it enabled by default.