WordPress Development and Management with Claude Code

Claude Code is a powerful AI coding agent that can serve as a command center for WordPress development and site management. In this talk we’ll see how to use it to create plugins, generate block themes from designs, interact with your production WordPress site, and automate everyday tasks — all from the terminal.

We’ll explore three key capabilities: Skills (specialized knowledge packs for tasks like plugin development or block theme creation), MCP (Model Context Protocol, which lets Claude Code connect directly to external services like WordPress, GitHub, Figma, or N8N), and the Abilities API (which lets WordPress expose its functionality as tools that AI agents can use).

Through live demos, we’ll walk through real workflows: generating a block theme from an HTML design, querying your production blog using natural language, installing plugins, and reading error logs — without leaving the terminal.

While the demos use Claude Code, the concepts — MCP, Skills, and the Abilities API — are standard and transferable to any AI coding agent that supports them. What you learn here applies regardless of the tool you choose.

Aimed at developers and technical profiles with basic WordPress knowledge who want to discover how AI coding agents are changing WordPress workflows, both for development and site management.