WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site (techcrunch.com) 21
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 through Google's Nano Banana model, and make structural changes to sites like creating new pages or swapping fonts.
Users can also invoke the assistant by tagging "@ai" in block notes, a commenting feature added to the site editor in December's WordPress 6.9 update. The tool is opt-in -- users need to toggle on "AI tools" in their site settings -- though sites originally created using WordPress's AI website builder, launched last year, will have it enabled by default.
Users can also invoke the assistant by tagging "@ai" in block notes, a commenting feature added to the site editor in December's WordPress 6.9 update. The tool is opt-in -- users need to toggle on "AI tools" in their site settings -- though sites originally created using WordPress's AI website builder, launched last year, will have it enabled by default.
What fresh new Hell is this? (Score:3)
I can have all the downsides of Wordpress, with the added downsides of AI assisted content creation AND AI assisted page layout? This is amazing! What an absolute game changer! Can it negatively impact site security and performance in fun and interesting ways while it's at it? That would be super helpful.
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Drupal has done the same thing. I installed their new turnkey distribution ("Drupal CMS 2.0") and it came with an AI bullshit module. Naturally this was the first thing I tore out. (Followed by the new package manager, which also means losing automatic updates, but neither thing works well anyway so the only reasonable way to manage Drupal is from the CLI using composer and drush.)
On the plus side, it's easy to not use these misfeatures.
If I wanted AI to do something for me for Drupal, it would be to write
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If I wanted AI to do something for me for Drupal, it would be to write me a theme.
You're doing it wrong. Next time include a skill.md [github.com] with your prompt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Radix 6 FTW! [drupal.org]
Once, I found a much better UX/UI tech-doc than this [apidog.com], but that doc is very close to it and gives you the gist of the technique. It took me a long time to find that tech doc while searching for what I recalled but failed to find.
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[success] Successfully installed theme: radix
$ drush --include="web/themes/contrib/radix" radix:create radix-xxx
[success] ðYs Sub-theme 'radix-xxx' created successfully. You may now enable it in the Appearance section of the Drupal administration or by Drush as shown below:
[...]
[notice] Enable and set radix-rdcert as the default theme:
ddev drush then radix-xxx -y
ddev drush config-set system.theme default radix-xxx -y
uh oh, bad sign, I'm not even using ddev. and the install instructions
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Your mileage may vary.
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Problem is that it's great for people that publish to wordpress that already do their best to produce low quality slop to flood the internet, even before AI slop was available.
Now they can push more slop more quickly than ever before, further flooding the internet with low quality crap that drowns out actual quality material.
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Problem is that it's great for people that publish to wordpress that already do their best to produce low quality slop to flood the internet, even before AI slop was available.
Now they can push more slop more quickly than ever before, further flooding the internet with low quality crap that drowns out actual quality material.
Yes, and imagine how nice it'll be to have every individual sentence written by the user turned into a novel-length SEO driven AI hallucination nightmare.
I'm beginning to wonder how many years of usefulness to humans the Internet has left.
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Now here's a recipe for a grilled cheese sandwich. But in order for you to understand exactly how this recipe works, let me relate to you my experience growing up and how grilled cheese played a factor...
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Now here's a recipe for a grilled cheese sandwich. But in order for you to understand exactly how this recipe works, let me relate to you my experience growing up and how grilled cheese played a factor...
Four ingredient quick cobbler. Ten minute recipe, five hours of reading to get to the recipe.
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Wordpress: A remote root shell with a cool blogging feature.
(he says as he runs Wordpress for his own tiny site...)
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100% right. If they try to force us to use it, I may go back to doing it the easier way - hand-coding html in vi, which is what I did before WP.
Hosting WordPress is *asking* for hackers (Score:2)
I run a small web site with about 500 active users, so not exactly prominent on the world stage. Yet I get an average of 100 attempts per day to access URLs like /wp-admin, even though my site is not WordPress. Clearly, they bots are out there trying to find open doors.
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Based on my logs from various web servers we run... those URLs get regularly pinged regardless of the presence of any CMS at all.
The worst software in the world got worse (Score:2)
I live in Wordpress hell already. Fuck that shit.
Nope (Score:2)
and make structural changes to sites
Not if it tries to cram any JavaScript in there.
Supply-side catch up (Score:2)
We are well on our way to a human-free internet.
Sentient? (Score:2)
More AI Bukkake (Score:2)
Any thoughts on ClassicPress? (Score:2)
> ClassicPress
> The CMS for Creators
> A lightweight, stable, instantly familiar free open-source content management system. Forked from WordPress without the block editor (Gutenberg).
https://www.classicpress.net/